“Little evidence of a link between video games and aggressive youth: Here's an interesting statistic: While the video game industry was exploding between 1994 and 2000, juvenile (ages 15-17) violent crime arrests dropped by 44% and young adult (ages 18-24) arrests dropped by 24% according to the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. While that does not necessarily rule out any relationship between video games and youth violence, it certainly should make policymakers pause before rushing to legislate.“
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It's interesting how quickly computer games became part of main steam media. Some may argue that time span between first video game console widely available to the public and state of the art Sony's Playstation 3 Home Entertainment hub is more than three decades. Computer games and game consoles are great example how technological advancements are adopted by society. It's double edge sword really. As long as video games consoles were expensive gizmos nobody pay any attention to it.
Now even hollywood is adopting best selling computer games into (B type at the most) movies. At least they can monetize game success again.
Computer games and game consoles are no longer associated with computer geeks and nerds but with home and family entertainment. Nintendo Wii had done something that was unimaginable up to now. They manage to attract 30+ female audience into computer games. Computer games industry crossed another barrier that decade ago was an paradigm.
Society finale recognized this type of entertainment as almost integral and fully legitimate way of socializing and spending time.
The most interesting thing is the way how the whole relationship between society and computer games evolved to it's current status.
There is one sentences that perfectly describes the whole process...
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” Mohandas K. Gandhi
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