Concerned that video games are too dark and violent for your kids? Then you should rush out and get them a copy of Stacker! ... a new video game wherein kids simply stack cardboard boxes. Over and over and over again.

The game's designer says that parental concerns were the driving force behind the game's placid and harmless nature:

"To avoid any appearance of suggestive or adult situations, the graphics consist entirely of rectangular polygons rendered in shades of brown against a simulated gray cinderblock wall. The game is free-roaming inside the warehouse environment, meaning that no goals are set for stacking a certain number of boxes, nor is there a time limit for the stacking. The health-level bar remains at a constant peak, and the first-person perspective avoids the problem of players identifying too closely with the main character, whose name is never specified and to whom nothing actually happens."

A demo version of Stacker was unveiled at the Tokyo Game Show in September and garnered praise from parents' groups who lauded its unstimulating visuals, utter lack of storyline, and non-immersive game play.

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