| In 50 years of its history, video games have not | | | | Pac-Man seem long gone. The most violent thing |
| escaped one thing and that is controversy. Video | | | | was Pac-Man eating the ghost. You didn't see any |
| games are controversial for these reasons. One | | | | blood from the ghosts. You didn't do see their |
| reason is because children and teenagers are the | | | | heads flying around as it is perfectly natural that |
| ones who are mainly playing video games. You | | | | heads should be flying off people's heads. |
| don't see many adults or elderly people playing | | | | The most games that seem to be generating a |
| them or at least admitting to doing so. Children | | | | lot of controversy right now is the Grand Theft |
| also seem to spend an inordinate amount of time | | | | Auto game series. In this game, one player is a |
| playing the video games. They seem like people | | | | criminal in a city like San Andreas and their mission |
| who are addicted to caffeine. Parents are worried | | | | is to make as much as money as possible. The |
| that their kids are spending too much time playing | | | | problem is that the player seems to make this |
| video games. They are also worried by what is | | | | money by causing as much mayhem as possible. |
| being depicted in those games and by how they | | | | During the game a player can carjack people. The |
| can protect kids from what is being shown in | | | | players of this game can fight one another. A |
| those games. Parents have the same concern | | | | player can even go to the local army base and |
| about video games as they do about what is | | | | steal a tank. If one prefers to go to an air force |
| being shown in movies and other parts of the | | | | base, they can steal a Harrier jet. The reason |
| media. | | | | that this game draws so much controversy is |
| Parents certainly do not like the violence that they | | | | that the players are the bad guy and they can do |
| see in games like House of the Dead, Doom and | | | | bad things virtually. Parents are afraid that by |
| Mortal Combat. These games depict limbs being | | | | playing this game, their will think that causing |
| torn from the bodies of people. Blood is spurting | | | | mayhem is the most natural thing to do. They |
| freely when a bad guy gets killed. Heads are being | | | | want their kids to turn into good citizens, not |
| decapitated left and right. The good old guys of | | | | full-fledge criminals. |