In recent years, more and more cities have emerged entertainment venues that offer video game entertainment equipment, which is often referred to as "video game cities". According to the relevant regulations, non-national statutory holidays, minors are prohibited from entering the video game city, and the relevant entertainment equipment must be registered with the cultural department for the record.
Recently, the reporter of the general station conducted a secret visit to some "video game cities" in Guiyang, Guizhou, and found that some video game cities have many chaos such as providing illegal equipment that promote gambling content and minors entering at will.
The "No Entry" sign is useless
Minors are free to enter
In these video game cities in Guiyang City, the sound of music and human voices are mixed together and very noisy. Some smokers at the scene were spewing clouds and fog, and the indoor air was turbid. In such an environment, some adults even carry babies to play together, and many children have fun here without their parents.
When asked whether "can you bring your children in addition to holidays", the cashier of the video game city replied that "it is okay to have parents to bring", however, at the scene, the reporter found that many minors were not accompanied by parents, and the cashier explained that "they are all around".
△ There are many minors in the video game city
After a number of secret visits to the home appliance play city, it was found that the above situation is not an isolated case. Although the words "Minors are prohibited from entering except for national holidays" are posted at the entrance of some video game cities, they are useless, and many minors are regular customers here. In some large shopping malls, the video game city is next to the children's clothing district, obviously treating children as target customers.
In front of the cashier of the video game city, the reporter found that in the face of the rmb and payment codes handed by these underage children, the cashiers accepted them without asking, and quickly exchanged them into game currency. In addition, there are some online self-service coin purchase machines in the video game city, so that the age of the buyers cannot be recognized.
Reporter: How many coins have you exchanged?
Student: A hundred.
Reporter: Where do you have the money?
Student: My mother gave it to me.
Reporter: You exchanged it all for money? How much did you play today?
Student: Two hundred and six coins.
Game City hides gambling equipment
Many minors "enjoy it"
In addition, the reporter found during the visit that many video game cities provided consumers with illegal equipment. At the entrance of an electronics play city, there are doll-catching machines, followed by amusement equipment areas such as racing cars and shooting, and in the deepest part, there are a number of coin pushers, slot machines, fishing machines, large roulette wheels and other equipment, containing content that promotes gambling.
△ A home appliance play city investigated by the reporter
Taking the big roulette wheel as an example, consumers can bet on the points after investing coins, and after winning the lottery, the score will be doubled according to a certain proportion, and customers can also exchange the points for game currency to quit.
Reporter: How much does this generally have to be invested?
Customer: Ten cents a coin.
Reporter: What about after the detention? Which one to watch last?
Customer: That's multiplier, four times, eight times, twelve times.
Minors can often be seen in front of such devices that promote gambling content, and even some children are addicted to it. In order to attract children, devices are often specially dressed up as cartoon characters.
Reporter: How many coins have you invested, playing until now.
Child: Just such a basket, there is only this point left, this is a pit.
Reporter: Are you still playing with people?
Child: Take it and play with it.
Law enforcement officials said that these video game cities ignore laws and regulations, which not only undermines the normal social order, but also endangers the healthy growth of minors. In the course of law enforcement, law enforcement officers promptly persuaded minors to leave.
Game City Cashier: His father could have brought him here.
Cultural Law Enforcement Officers: Where is this regulation? Father brought him here you can accept? Only on national holidays, these devices can be open to minors, know not?
Parents of children: You let him refund the money.
Relevant departments investigate and deal with illegal video game cities
Minors are called upon to stay away from bad devices
China's "Measures for the Administration of Game and Amusement Equipment" implemented on January 1 last year stipulates that relevant equipment cannot contain content that promotes gambling, including having or disguised functions such as charging points, rebate points, refunding coins, and returning steel balls; fishing machines, etc., which are small and large in the form of setting magnifications; slot machines, turntable machines, racetracks, etc. That are automatically determined by the system to determine the outcome of the game, and so on.
For some illegal video game cities, the comprehensive law enforcement departments of the cultural market at the two levels of the local urban area have investigated and dealt with them. In a video game city called "Big Player", after confirming that multiple devices have gambling functions such as small and large, refunding coins, etc., and there is no filing and registration, law enforcement officials require that these devices be cleaned up and sealed immediately.
Due to the existence of a variety of illegal operations, the cultural law enforcement department issued a "notice of order correction" to the home appliance city and asked the other party to suspend business.
"Immediately distinguish between the area of games and amusement, the second is to immediately clean up the models that are not approved in the list, and the third is to immediately correct the behavior of accepting minors into game entertainment venues." Jin Wanqin, a cultural law enforcement officer in Nanming District, Guiyang City, said.
Anding, a staff member of the Guiyang City Cultural Market Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment, said that after finding out the illegal acts and illegal gains of the home appliance city, further punishment will be imposed. "Combined with the illegal circumstances of the parties, the punishment will be swift and severe in accordance with the law." Specifically, it is to confiscate illegal gains and illegal property and impose a fine of one to three times the illegal gains and illegal property, and if the circumstances are serious, it will be given an administrative penalty of suspension of business for rectification for one to six months. ”
The Guiyang Cultural Market Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment said that it will continue to clean up and rectify the video game city market in its jurisdiction, and also called on schools and parents to strengthen the education and guidance of minors and keep them away from bad game and amusement equipment.
Source: Voice of China, Central Radio and Television Corporation