In today's society video games play an important role in a child's life. Most children play games when they are bored and think nothing of them. Even though children engage in playing video games, these games do not cause the violence among children but it is the children themselves. Society, which includes parents, the media, the government and educators, are just looking to point the finger at someone and they found it.

"Video games were first introduced in the 1970's. By the end of that decade, they had become a preferred childhood leisure activity, and adults responded with concern about the possible ill effects of the games on children" (Cesarone 31). This is still a major concern of parents and the nation. Video games can cause physical problems but it is rare, the companies put warnings on the systems or games about these effects it might have. It is the authority figure that has to watch how long the child plays at a time so he or she does not get affected by these physical deformalities. People can blame the video game industry if the child obtains some kind of physical problem from their system because the parent should be aware of what the c

The government has finally taken action seeing how a lot of parental figures are upset with how things are ran regarding the video gaming industry. The IDSA (Interactive Digital Software Association) has proposed new marketing guidelines for M-rated video game titles. The guidelines are as follows (so far):

The government is going to try to take other actions. Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman have pledged that they will push for passage of a select national youth violence commission with subpoena power in the next session of Congress. According to Holland commission mandate, they say, would be to 'produce a comprehensive understanding of what forces are turning our children into killers" (64). The government is strictly against the whole video gaming issue and wants to see that violent video games get off the shelf. The bill got passed and it is another step towards cracking down on video game violence.

· Paid ads for M-rated games shall not be placed on websites where 45 percent or more of the viewers are under 17" (Laprad 1).

· "Ads for Mature-rated games may not be placed in magazines where 45 percent or more of the readers are under 17

The games today are geared more towards the adults, for example most Sony Playstation games including games like Doom, Duke Nukem, Unreal Tournament which are games you just go around shooting people until someone scores enough points to win. If parents pull their head out of where ever it is and open their eyes to see what kind of stuff their children are playing, listening to, reading, etc then they would not have to worry about them killing others. Games do not cause the children to go and shoot people but the lack of responsibility the parents show towards their children is the reason.

hild does and watches, it is their son or daughter not the video game industries. "An early study on the effects of video games on children found that playing video games had more positive effects on children than watching television. A conference sponsored by Atari at Harvard Universit

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