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The media, the authorities and old people are willing to blame video games for bad elements of society. Just because a mad man played Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and then ran into the street shooting people and eating babies, does that make it the games fault or was it because he was a deluded psychopath who would have done the same whether the game existed or not?
High school shooting are blamed on the boys playing arcade games like silent scope and other sharp shooting games, but are the games to blame or is the fact they had negligent parents and were bullied part of it too, makes you wonder…
If the powers that be seriously believe that playing games influences people so much, are there other effects on people except mindless violence? Let’s take a look at the possible game induced symptoms.
Pac Man Fever:
The Pac Man generation of gamers played the game to death and since it was one of the only games out at the time, there weren’t many alternatives. However do people who were gamers at this time run around in darkened mazes listening to repetitive music and gobbling brightly coloured pills whilst being chased by ghosts? To my knowledge there are none who do this, unless they are on an LSD trip in which case numbers will be quite high. This proves that Pac Man, a very popular game, didn’t cause people to act crazy and follow what they saw in games.
Super Monkey Ball Sickness
Super Monkey Ball was, and still to some extent is, a very popular and highly ranked game. However I don’t know of any people who have constructed large glass balls and rolled themselves around tilting mazes in them. The closest I have seen to this is hamster balls with foetuses in being rolled around a parking lot, but that was on channel 5 and therefore doesn’t count.
Tony Hawks Pro Skater Virus
The Tony Hawks series is one of the most popular sports/action games on the market and many people own at least one of the titles. However when was the last time you saw Darth Vader skateboarding around your city centre collecting huge S.K.A.T.E letters? In fact, don’t answer that! The game influences people, in part, to take up skateboarding and to try cool tricks but doesn’t push them to the extreme and make them moronic idiots, except the Jackass crew…
The Sims Bug
The Sims is the biggest selling PC title, ever. It has been played by millions of people worldwide but there are no side effects that I have noticed. Have you ever been round at your mate’s house for dinner then got up and not moved for six hours because there was a chair in your way? Have you ever wet yourself then fallen asleep in a pool of your own urine because nobody told you to go to the toilet then go to bed? Of course not (At least I hope not) because the game, despite its realism, doesn’t effect people in their lives.
Roller Coaster Tycoon infection
The theme park building game is very popular amongst all age groups but I don’t know of any incidences where someone has set up a theme park and tries to get 300 guests within 1 year just because of the game. Nor has the manager of Alton Towers built a roller coaster where people are horribly killed just because it was a laugh in the game. This, yet again, proves that games do not influence people’s actions.
I hope this is sufficient evidence to dissuade people from blaming games for humanities dysfunctions. Excuse me now, I am going to hunt zombies in my futuristic hover car whilst hitting my mate with an oversized hammer.
-kyz22-
High school shooting are blamed on the boys playing arcade games like silent scope and other sharp shooting games, but are the games to blame or is the fact they had negligent parents and were bullied part of it too, makes you wonder…
If the powers that be seriously believe that playing games influences people so much, are there other effects on people except mindless violence? Let’s take a look at the possible game induced symptoms.
Pac Man Fever:
The Pac Man generation of gamers played the game to death and since it was one of the only games out at the time, there weren’t many alternatives. However do people who were gamers at this time run around in darkened mazes listening to repetitive music and gobbling brightly coloured pills whilst being chased by ghosts? To my knowledge there are none who do this, unless they are on an LSD trip in which case numbers will be quite high. This proves that Pac Man, a very popular game, didn’t cause people to act crazy and follow what they saw in games.
Super Monkey Ball Sickness
Super Monkey Ball was, and still to some extent is, a very popular and highly ranked game. However I don’t know of any people who have constructed large glass balls and rolled themselves around tilting mazes in them. The closest I have seen to this is hamster balls with foetuses in being rolled around a parking lot, but that was on channel 5 and therefore doesn’t count.
Tony Hawks Pro Skater Virus
The Tony Hawks series is one of the most popular sports/action games on the market and many people own at least one of the titles. However when was the last time you saw Darth Vader skateboarding around your city centre collecting huge S.K.A.T.E letters? In fact, don’t answer that! The game influences people, in part, to take up skateboarding and to try cool tricks but doesn’t push them to the extreme and make them moronic idiots, except the Jackass crew…
The Sims Bug
The Sims is the biggest selling PC title, ever. It has been played by millions of people worldwide but there are no side effects that I have noticed. Have you ever been round at your mate’s house for dinner then got up and not moved for six hours because there was a chair in your way? Have you ever wet yourself then fallen asleep in a pool of your own urine because nobody told you to go to the toilet then go to bed? Of course not (At least I hope not) because the game, despite its realism, doesn’t effect people in their lives.
Roller Coaster Tycoon infection
The theme park building game is very popular amongst all age groups but I don’t know of any incidences where someone has set up a theme park and tries to get 300 guests within 1 year just because of the game. Nor has the manager of Alton Towers built a roller coaster where people are horribly killed just because it was a laugh in the game. This, yet again, proves that games do not influence people’s actions.
I hope this is sufficient evidence to dissuade people from blaming games for humanities dysfunctions. Excuse me now, I am going to hunt zombies in my futuristic hover car whilst hitting my mate with an oversized hammer.
-kyz22-
Chips, Chips *shakes head*, I feel like a wedge has been driven between us. At first I thought it was merely a potato wedge and it wud get squashed and go all gooey but it is evidently not. Damn my similies suck :-(
Hmmm... I'm afraid I'm going to have to agree with Azul. I was promised on MSN that I would 'like it' but really, it was quite samey to some other posts.
Sorry, but that's my honest opinion.
Sorry, but that's my honest opinion.
Brilliant :-)
Another good post mate. Keep churning em out and keep readin em I will.
Melancholy wrote:
> Another GAD i suppose.
>
> *humbles away*
Sorry, that was supposed to be:
Another GAD I suppose.
*humbles away*
> Another GAD i suppose.
>
> *humbles away*
Sorry, that was supposed to be:
Another GAD I suppose.
*humbles away*
Another GAD i suppose.
*humbles away*
*humbles away*
I thought it was a great post. Although I sometimes feel influenced by games.. I do get the urge to get a gun and shoot people in the street..
But.. no.. it was a good post!
But.. no.. it was a good post!
Bwilliabant.
It wasn't bad, but this kind of post is just a recycled genre.
Nothing original.
Nothing original.
The media, the authorities and old people are willing to blame video games for bad elements of society. Just because a mad man played Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and then ran into the street shooting people and eating babies, does that make it the games fault or was it because he was a deluded psychopath who would have done the same whether the game existed or not?
High school shooting are blamed on the boys playing arcade games like silent scope and other sharp shooting games, but are the games to blame or is the fact they had negligent parents and were bullied part of it too, makes you wonder…
If the powers that be seriously believe that playing games influences people so much, are there other effects on people except mindless violence? Let’s take a look at the possible game induced symptoms.
Pac Man Fever:
The Pac Man generation of gamers played the game to death and since it was one of the only games out at the time, there weren’t many alternatives. However do people who were gamers at this time run around in darkened mazes listening to repetitive music and gobbling brightly coloured pills whilst being chased by ghosts? To my knowledge there are none who do this, unless they are on an LSD trip in which case numbers will be quite high. This proves that Pac Man, a very popular game, didn’t cause people to act crazy and follow what they saw in games.
Super Monkey Ball Sickness
Super Monkey Ball was, and still to some extent is, a very popular and highly ranked game. However I don’t know of any people who have constructed large glass balls and rolled themselves around tilting mazes in them. The closest I have seen to this is hamster balls with foetuses in being rolled around a parking lot, but that was on channel 5 and therefore doesn’t count.
Tony Hawks Pro Skater Virus
The Tony Hawks series is one of the most popular sports/action games on the market and many people own at least one of the titles. However when was the last time you saw Darth Vader skateboarding around your city centre collecting huge S.K.A.T.E letters? In fact, don’t answer that! The game influences people, in part, to take up skateboarding and to try cool tricks but doesn’t push them to the extreme and make them moronic idiots, except the Jackass crew…
The Sims Bug
The Sims is the biggest selling PC title, ever. It has been played by millions of people worldwide but there are no side effects that I have noticed. Have you ever been round at your mate’s house for dinner then got up and not moved for six hours because there was a chair in your way? Have you ever wet yourself then fallen asleep in a pool of your own urine because nobody told you to go to the toilet then go to bed? Of course not (At least I hope not) because the game, despite its realism, doesn’t effect people in their lives.
Roller Coaster Tycoon infection
The theme park building game is very popular amongst all age groups but I don’t know of any incidences where someone has set up a theme park and tries to get 300 guests within 1 year just because of the game. Nor has the manager of Alton Towers built a roller coaster where people are horribly killed just because it was a laugh in the game. This, yet again, proves that games do not influence people’s actions.
I hope this is sufficient evidence to dissuade people from blaming games for humanities dysfunctions. Excuse me now, I am going to hunt zombies in my futuristic hover car whilst hitting my mate with an oversized hammer.
-kyz22-
High school shooting are blamed on the boys playing arcade games like silent scope and other sharp shooting games, but are the games to blame or is the fact they had negligent parents and were bullied part of it too, makes you wonder…
If the powers that be seriously believe that playing games influences people so much, are there other effects on people except mindless violence? Let’s take a look at the possible game induced symptoms.
Pac Man Fever:
The Pac Man generation of gamers played the game to death and since it was one of the only games out at the time, there weren’t many alternatives. However do people who were gamers at this time run around in darkened mazes listening to repetitive music and gobbling brightly coloured pills whilst being chased by ghosts? To my knowledge there are none who do this, unless they are on an LSD trip in which case numbers will be quite high. This proves that Pac Man, a very popular game, didn’t cause people to act crazy and follow what they saw in games.
Super Monkey Ball Sickness
Super Monkey Ball was, and still to some extent is, a very popular and highly ranked game. However I don’t know of any people who have constructed large glass balls and rolled themselves around tilting mazes in them. The closest I have seen to this is hamster balls with foetuses in being rolled around a parking lot, but that was on channel 5 and therefore doesn’t count.
Tony Hawks Pro Skater Virus
The Tony Hawks series is one of the most popular sports/action games on the market and many people own at least one of the titles. However when was the last time you saw Darth Vader skateboarding around your city centre collecting huge S.K.A.T.E letters? In fact, don’t answer that! The game influences people, in part, to take up skateboarding and to try cool tricks but doesn’t push them to the extreme and make them moronic idiots, except the Jackass crew…
The Sims Bug
The Sims is the biggest selling PC title, ever. It has been played by millions of people worldwide but there are no side effects that I have noticed. Have you ever been round at your mate’s house for dinner then got up and not moved for six hours because there was a chair in your way? Have you ever wet yourself then fallen asleep in a pool of your own urine because nobody told you to go to the toilet then go to bed? Of course not (At least I hope not) because the game, despite its realism, doesn’t effect people in their lives.
Roller Coaster Tycoon infection
The theme park building game is very popular amongst all age groups but I don’t know of any incidences where someone has set up a theme park and tries to get 300 guests within 1 year just because of the game. Nor has the manager of Alton Towers built a roller coaster where people are horribly killed just because it was a laugh in the game. This, yet again, proves that games do not influence people’s actions.
I hope this is sufficient evidence to dissuade people from blaming games for humanities dysfunctions. Excuse me now, I am going to hunt zombies in my futuristic hover car whilst hitting my mate with an oversized hammer.
-kyz22-