Hot coffee, fast cars, and a class-action lawsuit
Oh the steamy summer of 2005, otherwise remembered as the "Hot Coffee" scandal. Take-Two Interactive ushered in a new wave of videogame scrutiny after shipping Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas with a sexual intercourse minigame hidden in the code. (Players had to actively hack the game to get to it.) Grandmother Florence Cohen filed a class-action suit. Take-Two (Rockstar's parent company) has finally quit court and is offering anyone offended by the minigame is offering an exchange: the old, hacked version of San Andreas for a new, sex-free, copy and $35. Because virtual sexual encounters in a M-rated game (over 17) are the only thing about Grand Theft Auto which could potentially damage a 14-year-old.