Marc Ecko’s Getting Up, a game I have never heard of, is getting their free press today from Keep America Beautiful and the National Council to Prevent Delinquency.

The game, which I’m sure both protesting groups have played (INTERNET SARCASM), features a main character that gains notoriety and “rep” by spraying. Spraying paint, not spraying like a cat. At least, that’s what I can gather. I haven’t played the game.

This will be a breakthrough, as no other video game has ever dealt with graffitti. Not Jet Grind Radio, not Jet Set Radio Future. Wait a second, both of those games dealt with spraying graffitti to impress people.

I hope Keep America Beautiful has their time machine finished so they can go back in time and stop those games. Because ever since those games came out, graffitti has been everywhere!

Let’s get serious here. C’mon people, I mean it. We’re going to be serious.

All these groups protesting video games are only raising awareness of the games. Not in a “we must stop it” kind of way, but in a “we must have this” kind of way. They are selling the games for the company. It’s their mindset to hurt, but they are only helping.

Then again, perhaps they are right. Perhaps I’ll get out of the basement and start “tagging” things. Playing video games is such a horrible blight on society, graffitti is such a simple step up.

And we all know that graffitti is just a stepping stone to murdering cops.