"If we deny children access to all computer games, we deprive them of a rich and magical experience"

[eclective]

Not sure how much good it'll do in the mostly sane and liberal blogosphere of my friendslist, but this still deserves as much publicity as possible, so pass it around. If nothing else, it contains some beautiful lines that will no doubt touch anyone who's truly loved a videogame, and while focusing on an appreciation of the vast array of non-

Comments

[dragonite]

Nice article! Going to link it on 4cr. Won't do a whole lot by preaching gamers, but it's still a good read. :)

[luna_manar]

I'm guilty of not reading the entire article--whether out of restlessness or because I've heard it before, I'm not sure. It is a good article, though. I guess I've grown jaded of reading lots of good opinions, but not seeing any movement on the mainstream side of things. CNN still thinks video games are a bad influence

[lurial]

It's really unfair that advertisements for a game were banned, but not a movie of the same/similar 'shock value'. I haven't really been keeping up with the news regarding society's view on video games lately, but I thought that games and movies were slowly going to be treated in a similar manner because of the rating system on games. The laws in place kind of force parents to realize the similarities between movie-ratings and video game-ratings.

I mean, when was the last time someone blamed movies for corrupting kids with the same vigor as video games? They don't! Because there's a rating system on all movies, if a kid is watching a Rated R movie and walks away thinking he's allowed to do all the things in the Rated-R movie - people would logically think "Okay, the parent messed up quite badly there. Parental Guidence man! What are you thinking?"

Now with the labels on games, I think hope it's slowly headed in the same direction. Parents can no longer just shell out money to let little Timmy walk into EBgames alone to