Mystery video games and the sissyfication of the superpower.

World Tech Tribune.com ^ | October 25, 2002 | Scott McCollum

[Scott McCollum]

“While at a local Best Buy superstore yesterday buying a replacement for my father-in-law’s ailing seven year-old computer monitor (I bought a MAG Innovision 771FS-s 17” monitor for an after-rebate price of $89. Contrary to the false belief held by so many of my vocal critics, I have never received any 'free stuff' or been paid money by big, evil telecommunications and/or software companies for my writing. I buy all my equipment from the store just like everybody else), I saw an end-cap of new video games. The one that stuck out amongst all others was the Law and Order-Dead On The Money video game based on the NBC TV series.”

[Scott McCollum]

If the dopey parents and politicians that think throwing fifty bucks at a kid and telling him to go play in the arcade or watch The Matrix five times in a row at the mall movie theater all weekend is the proper way to raise their kids can solely blame Doom for violence; I think it’s only fair to blame the sissyfication of America (who in ten short years has gone from fair but tough superpower to an unfocused nation constantly worried about offending Russia and France at the next UN coffee clatch meeting) on ten million copies of Myst.

[Alex Murphy]

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[Alex Murphy]

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