ESPN has been running a series of segments during sportscenter all week. The topic: Video games, from the making, to who plays them.
Today a mother sat and watched, as her nine year old son played MLB Slugfest. The mother was shocked to learn that players in the game punched and fought with each other. She said things like....
"I've never really watched him play these games before. I can't beleve that they can throw punches and hit each other."
She went on, making her self sound like a real great parent.
Anyway, the main reason this is sports related and on sportscenter, is because games like Slugfest are offical products of Major League Baseball. The bottomline is: Are game's like these ok for children to play, and is it ok that the MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL give companies the right to use their players likenesses in non-simulated fashion.
They had this Harvard guy tring to bad mouth games. You know the same old same old.
In closing: If you think your kid is to young to play video games or can't grasp the concept of "not real". Than maybe you should leave television to raising them. Or even better, maybe just maybe you could take an interest in what you child does in his/her spare time.