Are video games good for you? [debate]

[MIR]

Oh! This is considerd a contrtaversial issue. O.O I am attaching a Color PDF to start this topic off. Enjoy.

[dlevere]

A new study offers evidence for a link between addiction and "excessive" gaming, but argues there's only a weak link between gaming and aggression.

[LiquidManZero]

The reason various forms of entertainment are being blamed for violence, is they just want something to blame. They have to point a finger somewhere, and they figure Grand Theft Auto, Marilyn Manson and the like are good targets, because they're already catching a lot of controversy. But then, music has long been a target for people's hate...

[Mike The Metalhead]

Marylin Manson sucks. I'm gonna kick its fans' asses at Slayer's show this summer. (Because they are touring with Manson... What the fuck? They want to show the world there's a lot better, I guess.)

I never felt like hitting someone while playing Mario Kart.

[MIR]

I have had a female friend hit me in the gonads while playing Mario Kart on her SNES. After the 25th level of tetris i feel like murdering someone..... by crushing them with a stack of correctly placed Tetrominos so i get the 1500 pts and x4 my points at the end of the game with a tetris!

[Mike The Metalhead]

The angriest I got when playing games was to the point of laughing. When those ice cream balls fall in some Mario Party...

[Chaotic Forces]

Games are good for you. Tekken 4 teaches you what to do if someone comes at with a knife. Tekken also teaches you how to fight.

[Mike The Metalhead]

Yeah, if you can beat Tekken, you're good to go out in the streets and kill any stranger you meet.

[Chaotic Forces]

No, if you mimic certain moves you can.

[MIR]

BBC update!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7034179.stm

[Phil The Hammer]

VGs helped my kids learn to count & to read. I now play stuff like COD4 on 360 as well as older games. Fun to go around killin' shit w/o getting into trouble, & fun to get whacked & to simply respawn. Lets us old pricks blow off steam w/o having a stroke.

Also fun as hell teaching another generation about retrogames. Sometimes that's all some of'em can afford, but what the hell...there are hundreds of very entertaining older games around. (And BTW, I'm still a pinball wizard! )

[Lazy Bastard]

Lets us old pricks blow off steam w/o having a stroke.

lol; you're awesome.

Hell yeah; there are way more good old games than good new ones...even if some of the new ones are great, you can't compete with good gameplay or storyline with graphics and sound alone.

Video games are teaching the little one here to read and do math as well (well, we're helping, too), and also help work on memory and such (if you want to progress to the next level, you've got to solve this puzzle, or remember a button sequence).