my generation grew up on the three stooges.
funny those nonpurists are also willing to ban video games.
what’s next for rino’s freespeech
oh, never mind heir mccain already has that issue covered.
Space Invaders 30 years ago; then Pacman was considered 62% violent in game(I still have scary visions of a monster mouth eating everything in sight, right up their with "clowns"...am running, running, being chased!!!).
The classic board game of chess: (I mentioned above)
The goal is to assassinate, overthrow, or trap a head of state, using a combination of church (bishops), mercenaries (knights), and mobile military bases (rooks). Based on a medieval serf economy, with monarchs (kings) controlling serfs whose rights are so frowned up that are explicitly called pawns — to their faces! The game reinforces patriarchal model, with a man always holding the power (women cannot be head of state) — but with a weird twist: the sole woman, wife of the monarch, is depicted as having sweeping powers although she often must sacrifice her life for the sake of her husband. Even worse, even monogamy is denied in this game — when a pawn advances to the eight row, it can be promoted to a "polygynous status" as a "dual wife" of the male monarch.
It is racist too. One team is all white, the other all black.
What would Dr. Thompson AT SLASHDOT make of the risks to children of chess? This is not the worst of it. Other games? Go — a game about naked acquisition of territory. Backgammon — a game about isolating individuals and hitting them. Monopoly — don’t ask. Poker — doesn’t the name tell it all?
"Clearly, continues Doug Tygar, professor of Computer Science and Information Management at UC Berkeley (Yes, Berkeley), "if we value our children, we should isolate them from the adverse influences of these so-called games (not to mention literature and music — such as “operas” and that filthy filthy Shakespeare — they only promote poor family values).
"My recommendation: let them watch TV all day long."