Paul Levinson talks to Dylan Ratigan about violent videogames

[tkoizumi]

i find it disgusting that the lady find the videogame disgusting. so do we ban her now?

[Shoomoo111]

although i am fully aware that videogames are completely safe and fine as it is, but i can see why this game "JFK Reloaded" has controversy

[TheManmek]

jfk reloaded looks boring and crappy

[skullgamer44]

Never herd of the game jfk reloaded what's so bad about it compared

To gta or hitman?

[PLev20062006]

@skullgamer44 It's about an assassination that actually took place.

[DanzAzzie]

@PLev20062006 But world war two games put player in the shoes of normally an american killing endless amounts of people. Why is it so different? How can one thing can be so wrong and yet the other is fine?

it seems to be as soon as you you try to make people think about something that could or is happening then it becomes a problem. For example:

Medal of hounor is about to launch a new game. But when they include the taliban as one side of the multiplayer theres an uproar. Why?

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

In the Bullseye? More like in the Bullshit!!!!!!!!

[H0RnsH1GH]

i see there point on it bein bad cuz it talks about it killin som1 that actually existed cuz for example i dont want a game where it shows a guy killing my family but on other games they overreact

[baracine]

Violent games are responsible for America becoming a third-rate nation: the kids have by anbd large become illiterate violent idiots with no manners and no learning ability who are desensitized to violence in the media and real life. Those games are also exported to other (Muslim) countries where they serve for the training and the mental degradation of future terrorists.

[tman2tuff]

@baracine you clearly do not know much about video games. Also you need to get a spell check before you claim video games make people illiterate.

[skaterboi4life22]

then dont buy it its called parenting dont go batshit if you have a bad parenting

[imadethisupbitch]

although i love violent video games i think the reason this is controversial is that it is very disrespectful to a great former president. what if there was a game where you played as a nazi in a concentration camp where you shoot at the escaping prisoners or a game where you get to fly the plane that crashed into the twin towers?

[videosfromderelix]

What if there was a book about the people who hijacked the plane? should that be banned? If someone wants to make a game where you throw feces on the American flag, it should be allowed.

[lakersandangels]

If you don't want this game, then DON'T BUY IT. If you don't want others to buy it, publicize the game or speak out against it. You can't censor or illegalize something in particular just because you don't like it. If you censor this game, people will propose the same action to other games.

Even though I did not witness the assassination, I as well feel disgusted that someone would actually create such a game. However, not everyone shares 99.9%'s view, which is why the game is protected.

[gladiator1010]

"they are trying to make a buck"

which has just been made illegal in our new society

If you have the "audacity" in this country to make one buck..we'll take it from you and "pass it around"..you can count on it

[etatv]

I am a hardcore gamer and I do not believe that video games are simulated killing trainers like how so many people have said. I mean killing a president is bad but this JFK game (I've never played it) shouldn't be criticized like it is because it's like you are just shooting a guy in GTA except with a presidents face

[ghostbuddy]

Im an avid gamer, most of the games I play are atleast some what violent. Many of them are pretty violent. Im not going to lie, I like to play GTA 4. Further more, I take a sniper rifle, and fly on top of a building in my helicopter. And snipe all the people below in Grand theft auto. I don't do it, because I want to do it in real life though.

A game centered around simulating the assasination of a real life public figure? Just in bad taste. 10 dollars? What a over priced POS. Hope it bombed.

[Sandsk8er]

ok i dont agree with them on video games in general like the "it causes killers" but this is just messed he was a good president. so tht is fucked up

[videosfromderelix]

do you understand why the game was made? it was made to try to prove that the shot was possible since there are so many conspiracy theorists that claim it was impossible for Lee Harvey Oswald to make the shot. Why is it ok for a book about the person to be made but not a game?

[TimiS0]

i bet i can find that game for free ;]

[UltimaChaos298]

You guys can keep arguing abiut games, but meanwhile, I'm gonna play some Half-Life

*2 hours later*

*takes out crowbar* ME WANT KILL!!!!!!!!!

[powerman2442]

Ha ha, King Shit.

[keiseimu]

What a bunch of morons

[Kingofham10]

there probably gonna ban gears of war 2

:( if they do im gonna start a revolt and kill the person who was an overprotective sonofabich who spoke about banning these games

[ThisIsGonnaBeCool]

woah. that mary lou dickerson is STOOOOOOOOONED

[bluevenom50]

this thing about violent video games is bollacks why dont they ban fucking smoking it doesnt do anything for you at least games are for entertainment

[Zaktan12]

im sooooooooooooooooo with this i agree to take violent games off the market

[turgoband]

I see you are a child.

[turgoband]

you are a hateful person. Doesn't it occur that you too where once a child. Probably just as annoying. Maybe someone should kill you off? how about we make a game called Anoying Youtuber. Just shut up.

[YOUSHOTME4S2]

Aaah, successful troll is successful.

[japanrules10]

So much for "personal" computers..... Parents these days...

[binladenreincarnated]

because of idiots like you people think violent video games are bad

[jeppey]

I personally hate this kind of games like manhunt. They are pretty much just crap mixed wih gore and gives the gaming industry a really bad reputation. But non the less they should not be banned.

[KP1988]

Where is the outcry over being able to shoot Hitler or kill Stalin in video games. Granted most Americans (including me) don't agree with what they did but to some people they were just has "Great" as JFK.

[SPLINT3RC3LLFAN]

its not da games dat make people crazy and go kill its faggots like these mothafuckers dat make me want to GO KILL THEM....FUCKIN STUPID FAGGOTS

[patanax]

you fucking sick let it be!!! full off bullshit, are you go to the highscool? fucking ignorant

[ImmortalNaraku]

What video games was hitler playing?

[SouthernComfortPM]

It's up to the parents not the goverment to say what children can and can't watch.

[Sumkrazyguy55]

Yah. Like a parent is going to get there kid

a game that you kill John F. Kennedy.

And they try to use it against other video games. Hypocrits

[leo7278]

They always need something to blame for shootouts tisk tisk tisk how stupid are our fellow adults getting.I mean look at the columbine they were not invited to party's and the parents were retards it isn't video games its the damn parents and teachers and other people

[clcproduction]

thanks for the video

i'm currently writting a research essay for class about the censorship of video games in my english class, and this is part of it :)

[deoshi]

oh man why am i watchin this

[nosferatu55]

Firstly, if a kid plays GTA and then goes and kills people he was crazy from before playing. I've played GTA from the time I was 9 (Ahhhh... Vice city...) and I'm perfectly normal. Yeah. I am.

Secondly, FUCK JACK THOMPSON. That's my opinion.

Thirdly,only in USA and some european countries it will work. In Russia it won't. Anybody, a child 8 years old can buy/rent GTA SA or GTA VC.

[YOUSHOTME4S2]

This looks strangly like a mod. Does anyone else see that? These people are retarded for thinking that you can boycot something like this.. It looks like somethin from Flashplayer Dot Com Its electicity In cyberspace. Its an arragement of Emptyness and placement of electricity. You cant remove that.

[musicfan99999]

i've read how some soldiers see war as like a video game.. is that the video game's fault? i don't think so. i can play the same game and not become desensitized like that. it depends who's playing it. there was plenty of violence before violent video games, because there will always be violent people.

[musicfan99999]

good point about not finding something that happened in the past as revolting. consider a game like age of empires where hundreds are slaughtered, or call of duty, a world war 2 game. they are seen as educational, not violent. if a child can't tell the difference between real life and video games, they're either crazy or have bad/no parenting.

[mexa11]

haha, they are just prommoting the game

[rob780]

Exactly

[akkid89]

People, this game is not intended to make money or even to be entertaining. The sole purpose of it was and is to show that it was possible for Oswald to have made all three shots ALONE. To do this the assassination had to be recreated as accuratley a possible, that menas all the gore and violence that occured that day.

[PLev20062006]

absolutely!

[crazedmartinez]

Idiots.

Im so happy im 21.

[shinobitech13]

lol