German Researchers Link Pentagon to Violent Games, Metal Wolf Chaos Probably Tipped Them Off
Living in America, it often seems that all the crazy people in the world live here. Fortunately, it only takes one look at the news to know that there are other countries that have people just as crazy as ours. Countries like Germany, where two researchers are claiming that violent video games are a creation of the US Military.
During the nineties the killing simulators, employed for hand to hand combat in the US army and police, were released by the Pentagon to be sold for private use on the public markets. As a consequence the computer and video game industry that had co-operated with the Pentagon from the very beginning, boomed. Since then the so-called killer games have wreaked havoc among children and youths.
The US army’s electronic training programs for killing people must be taken back to the US barracks, where they came from. They have to disappear from civil society altogether. They may be appropriate for the purpose of national defense or fight against crime; they have no place, however, in children’s rooms or in living rooms.
It all makes sense. Right from the very beginning, the gaming industry and the Pentagon have been working hand-in-hand to create violent video games. Doom was obviously a simulation of a demonic invasion and Mortal Kombat was meant to teach soldiers how to rip people's spines out.
Seriously though, while that theory almost makes sense so long as you throw away your sense of proportion consider games like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor or even Halo or Gears of War, since one could easily make a baseless argument that these games over-glorify war.
However, do these researchers seriously mean to tell me that the Pentagon funded Grand Theft Auto, a game that arguably endorses values that run counter to the military? Are they even aware that not all of the game industry is located in America? Do they really even care?
Of all these questions, I think only one has a very obvious answer.
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During the nineties the killing simulators, employed for hand to hand combat in the US army and police, were released by the Pentagon to be sold for private use on the public markets. As a consequence the computer and video game industry that had co-operated with the Pentagon from the very beginning, boomed. Since then the so-called killer games have wreaked havoc among children and youths.
The US army’s electronic training programs for killing people must be taken back to the US barracks, where they came from. They have to disappear from civil society altogether. They may be appropriate for the purpose of national defense or fight against crime; they have no place, however, in children’s rooms or in living rooms.
It all makes sense. Right from the very beginning, the gaming industry and the Pentagon have been working hand-in-hand to create violent video games. Doom was obviously a simulation of a demonic invasion and Mortal Kombat was meant to teach soldiers how to rip people's spines out.
Seriously though, while that theory almost makes sense so long as you throw away your sense of proportion consider games like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor or even Halo or Gears of War, since one could easily make a baseless argument that these games over-glorify war.
However, do these researchers seriously mean to tell me that the Pentagon funded Grand Theft Auto, a game that arguably endorses values that run counter to the military? Are they even aware that not all of the game industry is located in America? Do they really even care?
Of all these questions, I think only one has a very obvious answer.
Article via GamePolitics