The Scientific Truth Behind Video Games and Real World Violence
Have you ever wondered why some stores refuse to sell violent video games to minors? If so, then you’ll be surprised as to why. It isn’t a law, but it is up to the store to decide whether they sell you the game or not. Their reasoning is that some people seem to think that video game violence can cause real world crimes; such as, mass killings. The earliest known game was a single-player, arcade, tic-tac-toe game, developed in the year 1950 by Dr. Josef Kates, and it was named Bertie the Brain. The game “Spacewar!” (1962) was credited as the first widely available computer game. The first at home video game console was created by Ralph Baer and was called the Magnavox Odyssey (1971), which on sold under 100,000 units. Pong, developed by Atari Inc. in 1972, was the first arcade game to ever …show more content…
They say that just because of the blood, gore, mutilation, and bodily harm that is in video games that makes people violent. There’s nothing that can connect these two things together. Studies have proven this to be the truth, but the media just won’t accept it to be the truth. They blame video games for school shootings and violent crimes because they’re too scared to blame it on mental stability and mental problems because they don’t want people mad at them for claiming that mental problems increase the chances of violence because the person doesn’t know how to cooperate under pressure causing them to do harm to others. You can’t just blame a video game because you don’t want to blame violence on mental unstable people. This is exactly why mentally unstable people aren’t allowed to buy guns either, because they can be set off very easily. The media needs to start checking studies combined with other things before they start pointing their fingers and blaming people or companies that are
Have you ever wondered why some stores refuse to sell violent video games to minors? If so, then you’ll be surprised as to why. It isn’t a law, but it is up to the store to decide whether they sell you the game or not. Their reasoning is that some people seem to think that video game violence can cause real world crimes; such as, mass killings. The earliest known game was a single-player, arcade, tic-tac-toe game, developed in the year 1950 by Dr. Josef Kates, and it was named Bertie the Brain. The game “Spacewar!” (1962) was credited as the first widely available computer game. The first at home video game console was created by Ralph Baer and was called the Magnavox Odyssey (1971), which on sold under 100,000 units. Pong, developed by Atari Inc. in 1972, was the first arcade game to ever …show more content…
They say that just because of the blood, gore, mutilation, and bodily harm that is in video games that makes people violent. There’s nothing that can connect these two things together. Studies have proven this to be the truth, but the media just won’t accept it to be the truth. They blame video games for school shootings and violent crimes because they’re too scared to blame it on mental stability and mental problems because they don’t want people mad at them for claiming that mental problems increase the chances of violence because the person doesn’t know how to cooperate under pressure causing them to do harm to others. You can’t just blame a video game because you don’t want to blame violence on mental unstable people. This is exactly why mentally unstable people aren’t allowed to buy guns either, because they can be set off very easily. The media needs to start checking studies combined with other things before they start pointing their fingers and blaming people or companies that are