nintendo.about.com — The U.S. Senate recently heard testimony on violent video games from Dr. Thompson, a Harvard researcher that claims PacMan is 62% violent, and that saying "push it to the limit" is sexual. Her research is amazingly out-of-touch with reality. Some of the other games: Mario (41.3%), Zelda (68.4%). Why do people keep listening to this kind of crap?
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atmofunkAug 17, 2006
using this kind of system as an example, lets say, for the sake of argument, Game X had one particularly nasty scene in it where the main character beheaded and castrated some poor innocent villager for the purpose of raping his daughter. Pretty vivid, but if that only appears once in the game, then this game, over the course of 90 minutes, could be given an "E" rating despite how disturbing the above violence is. Ridiculous.
zerosigna1Aug 17, 2006
this proves s**t
anunnakkiAug 18, 2006
Even though this digg is an exact copy/duplicate story of <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/gaming_news/The_62_Violent_Pac_Man_It_s_Simply_Mind_Numbingly_Stupid">http://digg.com/gaming_news/The_62_Violent_Pac_Man_It_s_Simply_Mind_Numbingly_Stupid</a> that actually reached the front page, I'll digg it and repeat my comment:Wow. I give up on humanity.
wmattisonAug 18, 2006
what percentage of violence was bugs bunny?
crywolfAug 18, 2006
This is ridiculous. Jack thompson has a mental condition or soemthing. I am religious, but this is pathtic. The man needs to get slapped in the face, to get some sense ino him. I can understand gta or bully, but mario! wtf!?!? Jack thompson if u r reading this now, i have one thing to say to you, YOU ARE MENTAL.
nerdofnerdsAug 19, 2006
Well, i'm off to load my ipod up with some nice repetative techno music to listen to whilst i run about a room munching pills and the occasional ghost or bits of fruit.On a slightly (but not much mind you) more serious comment, doesn't pac man support kids eating fruit? That should somehow cancel out the violence, because if some kids going to mow me down with a glock i'd rather he be healthy whilst doing it rather than a fatty.
joementholAug 20, 2006
Video games are 0% violent. When you play a video game, you press buttons. This causes light and sound to be emitted from your gaming machine. The end. No one has ever physically hurt anyone else by playing a video game (well, except in that one Bond movie, but I think we can all agree that it was justified by how awesome it was).If someone cannot control themselves and how they behave, it's not the fault of video games, or books, or music, or movies. They are simply defective.
colemanAug 24, 2006
doubt it ry