Posts Tagged ‘video games’
How Pokemon Go is a lot like Hee Haw, and how that should both relieve you and frighten you
This video shows thousands of Pokémon Go players in Taiwan stampeding after a Snorlax — a relatively rare creature in the Pokémon pantheon. It’s kind of unbelievable. You may think this is a sign of the apocalypse. A signal that human beings have lost all sense of what is good and right. End times. People…
Read MoreAt last I have a plan for old age
When I was young, I played a lot of video games. I started on an Atari 2600 and eventually moved onto an Atari 5200, a Nintendo, PC gaming, online gaming, and a great many coin-operated arcade games. I stopped playing video games about ten years ago, opting instead to use my time to write, read,…
Read MoreThe Michael Jackson video game was a thing.
Sometimes you come across facts that you need to say aloud to as many people as possible because you just can’t believe that they are true. Like this: In 1988 and 1989, video game manufacturers released video games for the arcade, the computer and Sega’s video game platform based upon Michael Jackson’s film, Moonwalker, in…
Read MoreThere are no easy answers when it comes to video games and violence. Nor is the research on the issue settled.
Do violent video games result in an increased level of violence among young people? It’s easy to say yes. It seems to make sense. It allows us to direct our efforts at a specific source. But consider research reported in the New York Times: The proliferation of violent video games has not coincided with spikes…
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