Do video games cause violence?

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

Playing Pac Man makes me want to eat ghosts.

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. - Marcus Brigstocke

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. - Marcus Brigstocke

hehe, running in dark rooms, munching pills....sounds like my generation

[danlisa]

This old gem.

Any stimulus can cause violence in someone who's either already unbalanced or particularity susceptible to react badly to said stimulus.

If the media want to go after certain high profile games, then perhaps they should examine the 'family friendly' fayre attractions. I mean wft does 'Whack-A-Mole' teach adolescents? That's it ok to take a mallet to every small mammal you see?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by danlisa

I mean wft does 'Whack-A-Mole' teach adolescents? That's it ok to take a mallet to every small mammal you see?

And after my shenanigans after mis-hearing HOOK-a-duck...

[TLAM Strike]

I'm just glad their are places where there are no video games (Violent or otherwise)... like Africa and the Middle East...


... such nice, peaceful places...

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I'm just glad their are places where there are no video games (Violent or otherwise)... like Africa and the Middle East...


... such nice, peaceful places...

Point.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I'm just glad their are places where there are no video games (Violent or otherwise)... like Africa and the Middle East...


... such nice, peaceful places...

Kuwait, at least, is heaving with video games of all descriptions and knock-off copies are only a few dinar each - unless something's really changed in five years since I was last there. And Dubai had a video games expo this year. I know these are two moderate middle-eastern countries but they do get a lot of people visiting from the rest of Arabia. Both Saudi and Yemen - two less moderate countries also have huge gaming markets - albeit mostly knock-off again!

Africa, well you're probably right there!

Just found this on the Telegraph website:

One former Guantanamo Bay inmate who went through the programme, which features "positive thinking" classes, art therapy and video games, is now deputy leader of Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, the cell in Yemen behind the attempted Christmas Day bombing on an airliner as it approached Detroit.

So maybe shot ourselves in the foot there!

[yubba]

For me they are a great release, have a bad day, jump into the cockpit shoot down a few zeros, take the sub out sink afew ships , then it's Miller Time. Get the government out of our play time.

[Sammi79]

No, but violence has caused some great computer games.

[the_tyrant]

what is so bad about desensitizing?
I hate those little kids who squirm and scream when they see a picture of a girl in a bikini.
I also hate those girls who through up at the sight of blood, even a small cut

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I'm just glad their are places where there are no video games (Violent or otherwise)... like Africa and the Middle East...


... such nice, peaceful places...

they have radical religion, don't need video games.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Armistead

they have radical religion, don't need video games.

We have radical religion too - Catholics blowing up/shooting Protestants and vice-versa - everyone seems to forget that...

And the religious and righteous anti-animal testing, anti-abortion, anti-muslim brigade.

But this is a topic covered before and not for continuing here and now.

[Penguin]

I wonder what video games the Nazis had played that lead into committing one or two atrocities....
I am glad that their allied counterparts played Wolfenstein 3D - though it was all in black&white back then...

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. - Marcus Brigstocke

Actually this happened to many people of the Pac-Man-generation: they became ravers....

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by Penguin

Actually this happened to many people of the Pac-Man-generation: they became ravers....

It is the irony of the entire thing that makes that particular ironic joke funny. But still, blaming that on video games is ridiculous.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Penguin

Actually this happened to many people of the Pac-Man-generation: they became ravers....

That is Marcus Brigstocke's point - he is a very funny man.