Moral Kombat

We watched a documentary called Moral Kombat which was about violence within video games. The documentaries highlighted many games that were “violent” when they were made e.g. Doom and GTA.  When these violent video games were released there were some murders which were said only happened because of the violent games. So eventually after some protesting and court cases age rating system was made so violent games wouldn’t get into young children’s hands. Some of the people that were being interviewed were blaming the game stores for selling the games to children when there is a possibility that the child’s parent had bought them it.

I believe that the documentary were one sided blaming everything on video games and the documentary only showed one nice thing  that video games have done. This was stopping someone from committing suicide. I’m sure there are multiple more similar cases to that one they just didn’t want to show any to make video games look more evil to people on the fence about video games. I don’t think that video games can make murders. I think that it’s something built into the person that can’t make them depict what is a game and what is real life or there’s something in there personal life which is pushing them into being that character from the game they are playing which could possibility be a violent game. But a game cannot be the sole reason for someone going crazy.

From the Moral Kombat documentary most of the people that were hitting out at video games seem to be of an older generation were there wasn’t all this technology. Just blaming everything new and what they didn’t have for violence, when most of them would have done some play fighting and caused injuries to one another when they were just “playing”. Isn’t play fighting just as bad as these “violent” video games. Doubt anyone has ended up bleeding from playing some tekken.

I also believe video games can teach child things. The professor layton games have puzzles which could possibly help with English maths and just overall problem solving skills. I aren’t saying that all games help children because there are some dodgy games out there but to banish all video games as evil spawns of Satan is a bit extreme.