Michigan- A video game in which players are rewarded for success with images of young women baring their breasts is “sickening” and “utterly degrading,” Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Friday, as she joined efforts to enact criminal penalties for providing violent and sex-laden video games to minors.

New laws are needed to send a signal “to those who would poison the minds of our young people…that we’re not going to take it anymore,” Granholm said.

The governor was speaking at a news conference sponsored by state Sen. Hansen Clarke, D-Detroit, at which he previewed excerpts from a game released last fall called The Guy Game.

The Guy Game allows players to answer trivia questions or anticipate answers given by on-screen players (intoxicated young women). Correct answers result in video images of the young women revealing their breasts. Players can also participate in a drinking game simultaneously. The intended audience is college-age males.

But Granholm and Clarke said it is far too easy for young people to obtain The Guy Game or other adult-oriented games. His legislation would create criminal penalties for any person who sells or rents adult games to someone under 17.

Clarke said The Guy Game is available at video stores all over Michigan and that there are virtually no restrictions on child access.

Randy Hargrove, a spokesman for the Blockbuster chain of video stores, said Clarke and Granholm are mistaken if they think adult materials are easily available in their locations. A company policy enacted 15 years ago forbids the sale or rental of adult games – Bockbuster does not carry adult videos – without specific parental permission to anyone under 17, Hargrove said.

Granholm said she would urge the Legislature to make Clarke’s video game bill one of its top priorities when lawmakers return from the Easter recess in two weeks.

Michigan is one of about a half dozens states considering retrictions to keep adult games away from kids.