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Prosecutor Takes Aim at Top Video Games
WXYZ ^ | 12-5-2007 | WXYZ

Posted on 12/05/2007 9:02:53 AM PST by Westlander

Citing a connection between violent video games and a rise in youth crime, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy blasted some of the biggest names in entertainment and urged a holiday boycott of 11 best-selling games.

(Excerpt) Read more at wxyz.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: batjack; crime; games; video; videogames; violence
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Yep, video games are responsible for Detroit's number 1 ranking for murder per capita.
1 posted on 12/05/2007 9:02:54 AM PST by Westlander
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To: Westlander

What happened to global warming, the war in Iraq, second-hand smoke, sunspots, etc. Clearly, a lack of immagination on the part of this prosecutor.


2 posted on 12/05/2007 9:06:43 AM PST by ZeitgeistSurfer (Voting democrat is like playing Russian roulette with five bullets.)
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To: Westlander

hey Kym thanks for the holiday shopping list.


3 posted on 12/05/2007 9:07:43 AM PST by Nat Turner (Proud two term solider in the 2nd Infantry Div 84-85; 91-92)
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To: Westlander

It’s obvious which lobby spends the most money on politicians. If the game industry spent as much on politicians (particularly Democrats) as Hollywood spent, there’d be no problem here. Dem’s just want their extortion money... “Nice little video game industry you’ve got here, be a shame if something were to happen to it.”


4 posted on 12/05/2007 9:10:50 AM PST by faloi
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To: Westlander

He’s a demagogue. Criminologists looking at crime demographics noted large decreases in violent crime perpetrated by youths (esp. youth-on-youth crime) with the release of Mortal Kombat (the first really popular one-on-one fighting video game) and one of the early first-person-shooters (Doom sticks in my mind as a title, was Doom a first-person-shooter). If anything violent video games provide a catharsis for the violent and thrill-seeking tendencies in youth.


5 posted on 12/05/2007 9:10:53 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Westlander

Why is that all the crap made in hollywood is protected by the first amendment as ‘art’ and ‘entertainment’ but video games are not?


6 posted on 12/05/2007 9:12:23 AM PST by z3n
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To: Westlander

I played Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein since I was at least 9. From what I’ve heard, I’ve come out OK. Playing videogames are no more harmful than readin violent books like “The Red Badge of Courage”, “Seawolf”, or “The Four Feathers”.


7 posted on 12/05/2007 9:12:48 AM PST by SoldierMedic (Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007 Ramadi)
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To: Westlander

Keep your hands off my shooter games.


8 posted on 12/05/2007 9:12:49 AM PST by wastedyears (One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
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To: Westlander

Correction: make that ‘She’s a demagogue.’


9 posted on 12/05/2007 9:12:49 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Nat Turner

Resident Evil 4 Wii edition is one of the best video games of all time.


10 posted on 12/05/2007 9:12:52 AM PST by On the Road to Serfdom
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To: z3n

He’s not prosecuting he’s calling for a boycott.


11 posted on 12/05/2007 9:14:01 AM PST by Borges
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To: The_Reader_David

Not to put too fine a point on it but Street Fighter II was the first really popular fighter game, Mortal Kombat’s big claim to fame was amping up the realism (by using video of people) and the violence. And MK proved it was a viable genre and not a one shot deal.


12 posted on 12/05/2007 9:16:50 AM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
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To: Westlander


If your not shooting here...you're not shooting S*#T!

Best 1st person shooter on the market!
13 posted on 12/05/2007 9:18:29 AM PST by The Louiswu (Never Forget!)
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“Why is that all the crap made in hollywood is protected by the first amendment as ‘art’ and ‘entertainment’ but video games are not?”

Maybe the video game industry’s lawyers seem beatable and have not had enough time to grease judges and politicians yet. They are not entrenched like hollywood's sharks and friendly judges/politicians are.

14 posted on 12/05/2007 9:18:30 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Westlander

It’s a fact. After I started playing Frogger ,I went out and started throwing frogs out on the highway.


15 posted on 12/05/2007 9:20:03 AM PST by Carl LaFong (Building Code Under Fire)
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To: Westlander

Oh yeah, that’s it. It must be the games.

Because it’s certainly not 3rd generation welfare, drug addicted dysfunctionals raising kids to be proper convicts from the cradle.

After all, violent criminal gangs are really just another form of extended family villages... or is that village raising enhanced sentences? Or, maybe it went, “it takes a village to raise a gang”?


16 posted on 12/05/2007 9:20:25 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Westlander
From the original source (prosecutor's office press release http://www.waynecounty.com/prosecutor/docs/pressReleases/2007/1-2007,December3-2007-Violent-Videogames.pdf )

2007 TOP TEN VIOLENT VIDEOGAMES

1. GRAND THEFT AUTO – Allows players to act out crimes and rewards them for doing so.

2. MANHUNT – Revolves around the making of a snuff film.

3. SCARFACE – Involves buying and selling drugs and killing hundreds of people.

4. 50 CENT BULLETPROOF – Rapper 50 Cent is involved in a web of corruption, double-crosses and shady deals that lead him on a bloody path through New York’s drug underworld.

5. 300 THE VIDEOGAME – Invites game room gladiators to slice their way through the Persian army as King Leonidas or as the leader of the phalanx unit in the Spartan army.

6. THE GODFATHER – Opens with a “child version” of the player witnessing the murder of his father.

7. KILLER-7 – Experienced adult gamers call this the most violent and twisted game ever played.

8. RESIDENT EVIL 4 – Shootouts involving massive crowds of enemies in large open areas. A typical play-through can result in the killing of up to 900 enemies.

9. GOD OF WAR – A sea of unrelenting violence, featuring Kratos, one of the most vicious characters the video game world has ever seen. Impales bodies, severs heads and even rips enemies in half with his bare hands.

10. HITMAN BLOOD MONEY – Self-proclaimed “most violent” game of a series, this game glamorizes killing.

17 posted on 12/05/2007 9:20:59 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
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To: Borges

True, true but if the boycott call becomes impotent who knows. I guess the cries of public funding of PSA will come next.


18 posted on 12/05/2007 9:21:08 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Carl LaFong

I play RPG’s and as soon as I figure out how to cast Fire spells my neighbors are toast!!11


19 posted on 12/05/2007 9:21:44 AM PST by CygnusXI (Where's that dang Meteor already?)
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To: SoldierMedic
I played Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein since I was at least 9. From what I've heard, I've come out OK.

Yeah...everybody scrawls "PWNED" across their tax return when they get a refund.

20 posted on 12/05/2007 9:21:59 AM PST by papertyger (changing words quickly metastasizes into changing facts -- Ann Coulter)
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