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"Do video games influence crimes?"

Are video games responsible for our actions? Can people honestly say (and I mean honestly) that a video game influenced their behavior? For years people have blamed the music and film industries and now their starting on our beloved video game world. Well to an extent this can be true but lets look at the facts.

To be influenced by Playstation 2’s Rumble Racing you’d need to get a yellow rocket with wheels, launch yourself from a ramp or ditch, perform a double back flip, successfully land on the road, speed off ahead of the traffic and drop an giant novelty snowball on the road then unleash a tornado on the M6. Has anyone ever done that?

Or to be influenced by Mario, you’d need to be doing your plumbing job, you know fixing a toilet belonging to a woman named Peach, spot the pet tortoise Norman in the garden, jump out of the window screaming “hup whoop cookoo” at the top of your voice in and ac-cent that’s anything but Spanish, then land on poor fella with your butt, forcing him into his shell, kick the now petrified turtle over three fences with an aim like Beckham so he lands on a turtle killing them both. You’d then need to pop into you client Peach’s house and nick her Mr. Kipling of the sideboard. Has anyone ever don’t that?

What about the infamous Tony hawk? If someone wanted to press charges on you for performing a human dart grind around their (women in bikini filled) cruise ship then draining the pool, releasing a lifeboat and trashing their museum (causing a terrifying accident where a man cheats death and is flung overboard) all in under two minutes. Then you could say it was the games fault.

Lets not leave out Medal of Honor, has anyone ever tried to re-enact the storming on Normandy beach by running up Southend pier with a cap gun yelling “get to the frontline”, reached the no entry fence surrounding Peter Pan’s playground and planted explosives there, detonated them and then infiltrated the machine room for the Crooked house screaming “I am Jimmy Paterson, bow down before me!” Has that happened lately? No, it hasn’t, and I don’t think it’s likely to happen anytime in the near future either.

Or our wonderful friend Solid Snake? Has it been in the news lately that a deranged Mesomorphic man with a extremely deep voice has run through Safeway under a cardboard box, grabbed one of the employed and sedated her then dragged her sleeping body to the ice-cream freezer and stuffed her in it? Did this person then crawl down isle five, retrieve a box of painkillers then attacked the docked trolleys with a S.A.M. missile to defend the world from the new ‘Metal Gear”? No, no he didn’t, because this has never happened either?

And finally has anyone taken Tekken to heart? Has anyone placed the hollowed out head of a leopard on their head and staged a series of fights in places around the world including the slums of China and even a three round fisticuffs match with a polar bear? Or a Japanese sword wielder named Yoshimitsu? No, nobody has done this either!

So none of these crimes (or absurdities) have actually been committed? Then why make the farfetched claim that video games influenced your behavior in a situation? Until REAL proof arises that a video game was responsible for someone committing a crime I will not accept the allegation.

Thanks for reading.

no, not unless your retarded, and if u copy anything u see on a computer game then your mentally unstable and should be in care anyway,

look like a nintendo rep said reffereing to pac-man

"if computer games influenced us as kids, then we'd all be running around in a darkened room, munching pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music"

An interesting experiment, but with some visable flaws, for the child who has experienced violence may see no need to create any where as the violence (or entertainment if you will) deprived child may crave carnage. We live in a society that needs to de-sensitise its children before unleashing them on the world.

Okay to sort this out once and for all, here is what we will do. First of all we need someone who is willing to give up their New-born identical Twins into our care.

We will take one twin and bring him/her up in an environment where playing video games, watching movies and listening to comtempory music.

The other twin will be brought up on nothing book classical music and works of classical fiction.

On their 18th birthdays we will let them lose on the world with an arsnel of weapons, and see which one does the most distruction. If we don't like the results that we get we will just repeat the experiment until we do.

No, anyone have twins they want to donate?

.....anyone?????.......

Exactly, the whole point of this post was to show how people can't own up for things and always shift the blame. When anyone says it was the music/film/game it's not, it was their fault and they just arn't taking responsibilitie for thier own actions.

I made a post like this a while back, same ideas are being displayed here. But the games are being used as scapegoats for others who should be getting the blame, just like the recent rap music was being scapegoated for the overwhelming amount of guncrime, when the government should not have let the situation get out of hand in the first place. It is unfair to blame one factor, when considering something as graphic as killing, but if you are going to blame anyone, blame the government.

turns out Australia havent banned GTA vice city. so there no as stupid as they sound...

hence the title "Virtual reality" because ITS NOT REAL. hear that Australia!?

Yeah, it's just crap that Daily Mail readers believe in (no offence.) {:) As you've said, most games are impossible to 're-enact' anyway, it's part of the reason why we play them...because most of us can't do them in real life.

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> so you threw a petrol bomb all the way to Australia?

*hides giant catapult* erm..erm must have :D