Arch's Analysis: Do video games really affect children?

Is there any real logic behind video games being the reason for kids behavior today, or just an easy scapegoat?

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• games
• affect
• children

[KatzInABowl]

Let the kids play whatever they want...But parents PLEASE don't give them mics!

[wiilover07]

Just like back in the day parents blamed comic books for kids acting out. So now they will blame video games for the same reason.

[wiilover07]

This is an age old subject. I played tons of violent games when I was a kid. Mortal Kombat, Doom, Quake, Resident Evil, House Of The Dead and I'm not a violent person. There was plenty of realistic games back in the N64 days like I mentioned Doom, Quake hell even Goldeneye was some what violent. It's not the games fault if a kid copies something that he sees in a game or a movie it's the kids fault. That kid must have some issues to begin with. Never blame it on the game.

[RetroAdvance]

@hectec69 As kid I thought it is cool to speak to random strangers and entering their houses because zelda and secret of mana showed me that.

[hectec69]

that reminds me of the time I think during super nes days when this teenager ate a piece of rotted meat or cheese I for get what it was and tried to blame beatem ups like final fight cause you can eat stuff off the ground in it so he thought you could do it in the real world and tried to sue for it cause he food poisoned himself idiotic beyond belief

[dcdids2011]

@highlander5523 I would be sad if my kids feared me cause i beat them everytime they do something wrong. Yes, sometimes is necessary some pain, but not like a beating. Thats not the right thing to do and there is medical evidence that says that beating your kids is bad for they health. I have been hit with a broom once, but at least it was ONCE in my whole life and not because I "learned to fear my mom" thus never f*cking up again, it was because my mom realised it was bad to do that.

[SolidGamer400]

@Shokio awww don't be a show-off thokio!!! :D

[shadowmax889]

Did you forget all the crazyness that casue Mortal Kombat and Carmagedon?? Parents are the same now and in the past. Since the 50's to the 70's parents blamed rock music for the miss behavior of their childrens and since the 90's they shifted to videogames. It's the same old shit, parents blaming whatever is popular for whatever their kids do. My Kid will be punished if he missbehave and i am going to be just like my parents who i love and never alowed me to do bad things

[highlander5523]

@dcdids2011

its teachs fear and how to control themselves, and you obviously never grow up with a minority family, my mom said if she cant find the belt, she will use the high heels, if she cant find the heels she will use whatever is next to her, have you ever been hit by a bug spray can? it hurts like a motherfucker lol