Though it was originally released back in 1996, Pokemon continues to be a favorite media franchise amongst children and some adults. The Pokemon empire started off as a pair of unassuming video games for Nintendo’s handheld gaming consoles, but quickly evolved into something much more. Today, the franchise accounts for several games across multiple platforms. One of the most popular Pokemon mediums is a card game, which Nintendo decided to add QR codes to recently as a way to give players access to additional digital content. This has caused some unexpected problems for at least one player.

Ben Lapp of Sherwood, Oregon, was playing the card game with his family one day when he found a QR code on one of the game’s packages. Lapp took out his smart phone and scanned the code and was greeted with a website containing pornographic content. Lapp’s young children – 7 and 9-years old – did not see anything, but he and his wife were shocked by the content. Upon closer inspection of the packaging, Lapp found that the code must be scanned according to directions and with a specific barcode scanning application.

QR codes have become a major hit with large companies, but they may be too eager to adopt the codes before understanding how to use them. Most consumers are still unfamiliar with the codes, thus they do not understand that not every code can be scanned with a simple mobile app. Companies will have to pay more attention to making directions for their codes more clear before releasing them to the general public.

It is unclear whether this is an isolated incident or if other families have been affected.

http://www.qrcodepress.com/nintendos-misstep-with-qr-codes-leads-family-to-pornography/856685/

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http://www.kptv.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6745149

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There is a video on the link.  I was trying to embed it but no luck... 

The Pokemon corporation could not be (was cut off at the end of the video).... lol

"Daddy, why does that girl keep putting that man's Diglett in her mouth?"

"That's no Diglett, kids!"

This is the closest Nintendo has ever come to creating mature content, so I applaud them for their mishap.

What about Conker?

this.  maybe it's a sign that nintendo will give us some awsome games. instead of enemies just poofing away they actualy... bleed out and die. or something

Failed to embed... (and can't remove that code lol)

Anyways, this is news in a nutshell. Kids already knows how nude people look and have no idea of what porn is anyways...

While a squirrel fighting a piece of shit may seem utterly juvenile on its face, I guess it is pretty mature by Nintendo standards.

Hilarious bro!

Rare developed the game so should that even count?

but see this is where your wrong actually it wasnt nintendos fault the owner was supposed to use a spacific program read the post again , but even then .no ones perfect ,

and for the record nintendo has made mature titles before or been part of them

your first ever first person shooter on the n64 w split screen 4 players known to everyone as goldeneye was create by rare/nintendo
conker bad fur day -nintendo/rare
perfect dark -rare/nintendo

giest retro nintendo
then they also had third party exclusives that were m rated on the gc wii 3ds lol so i dont see the big fuss about the later argument amd yes rare counted for the n64 snes nes eras .  and for ds gba 1 gc title so does any other 2nd party  . 

and all 3rd party titles do count in the argument because the main argument about the n64 was --it was to kiddie . wasnt it not the main argument for the n64 gc era?  sure was also 

whats funny about the rare/nintendo and ms /rare relation ship is that the xbox version of the n64 game conker bad fur day was censored!