my.1up.com — WGN aired a story on video game addiction, now prior to airing the story, the anchorman said in the teaser that "video games can be more addicting than crack cocaine". When I heard that, I knew that I had to record the segment and upload the video for others to see. This is the news media at is worst. You can see the video on the link.
Feb 23, 2006 View in Crawl 4
dominowreckerFeb 23, 2006
wow that hurt....I and I can guarantee that no official study was done to back up anything that jackass was saying at all.If you replaced the word "games" with sports on what he was saying, this would have never made it to the air.Though it is EXACTLY the same thing.PLEASE dont post these stories anymore. I may want to hurt someone (no doubt from all the games I have been playing)
agpcFeb 23, 2006
Gaming is a hobby, just like any other hobby.Its a recreational activity.Crack addiction is a disease.Next they will say that people who like to read books are addicted to reading because thats what they do in their spare time, lol.
agentbadFeb 24, 2006
crack is pretty handy for those late night WoW sessions.
sprackyFeb 24, 2006
Don't these reporters have anything better to do? Sounds like they are talking out of their ass especially the social worker!
tmcleroyFeb 24, 2006
Correction *theme* ^
tehvsxFeb 25, 2006
Funny how everything I enjoy is "bad."
reaperducerFeb 25, 2006
I re-watched the whole hour. He never said anything about crack cocaine. Submitter is just pumping his blog. Reported inaccurate.
dr_adebisiFeb 25, 2006
Gamers are now considered on par with crack addicts? I dunno about everyone else, but I don't think I'd suck a dick for an extra hour of Fable.
cowboy5995Feb 25, 2006
I rember a year or so when I lived at home my mom saw this on Ophra and started asking if I was addicted. They need to come out with things that clean you out for Video Game Tests like they do drug tests.