Some of you probably know the infamous Law 3037/2002, a temporary Greek law that was enforced in 2002 and temporarily banned all video games in Greece.
This law in question was supposed to ban illegal gambling at internet cafes and modified arcade cabinets (SOMEHOW they had no problem with legal gambling despite the fact that many people were losing their fortunes and destroying their lives because of them). The problem was that the law was so badly written that it implied that it banned all forms of video games instead.
In action this law only affected arcades (until they dropped the law years later after a huge fine by eu) and for a short period the internet cafes. You could still buy, sell and play every other kind of video games (PC games, consoles games etc) without any problem.
More details about this video games ban at my blog article:
https://vetusomaru.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-3.html
And here is a related video at YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSOdyqOFUXk
