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Psychology Matters : Video Games.
Third-grader takes teacher's van for joyride : CNN Thursday, April 20, 2006; Posted: 9:56 a.m. EDT (13:56 GMT)
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In 1976, Death Race became one of the first controversial video games;
based on the film Death Race 2000, it allowed players to drive around in a car,
in order to run down "gremlins." However, many players and
critics inferred that the game actually simulated vehicular homicide
—particularly considering that the game's original
title was Pedestrian. Its implied violence was immediately decried.
Video game controversy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclyopedia.
"50 percent of boys age 7-14 have bought a game
rated-M,
for mature audiences, and a stunning
nine
out of
ten of the boys have played them."
"Pols Target Video Game Violence"
CBS News Correspondent Cynthia Bowers
"Ultimately, this dependence on violence is limiting
the creativeity of the developers that make games."
So, While the industry should fight for its rights of
free speech and contest legislation like the bill
recently proposed by Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman,
I also think that we need to make sure that we don't allow
our passion as gamers to blind us to all reason. If we
assume that our medium isn't capable of impacting our
world in a negative manner; if we assume that because our
industry is so successful that we don't need to conceive of
new ways to grow our art form; if we give in to our impluse to
shout down any criticism of our industry; if we assume that we
are always right and our enemies are always wrong - well,
then we're no better than Jack Thompson. And that's certainly
not company that I want to be in.
"Sympathy for he Devil(Rethinking Jack Thompson and the Video Game Violence Debate"
Matt Helgeson Senior Editor,
Game Informer Magazine
By the time typical American children reach the age
of eighteen,
they have seen 200,000 acts of violence
and
40,000 murders on some sort of screen.
"Video Violence is coming to a screen near you"
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