Author Topic: How Games 'Apparently' Affect Children (Read 7343 times)

Shift Key · « **on:** August 20, 2004, 03:03:51 AM »

There's been so much mud thrown around in the media recently about certain games causing violence in children. I can understand a game like Manhunt being brought to the attention of parents, but the Prince of Persia caused a stir in Canada. Not for the actual gameplay, though.
'Video game ad angers mother' - The Windsor Star

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The ad features a bloodied, sinister-looking man holding a machete-like sword in an attack position. A similar ad features him holding a gun.

Now I have played through this game, and I can't remember guns being in the game AT ALL. o____________O

What do you guys think?

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Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #1 on:** August 20, 2004, 03:12:04 AM »

I'd like to see them try and prove the 'similar advert with a gun' is real.

"Shutup, it IS real! My son has NIGHTMARES of that EVIL fellow from the BUS! Just shutup, you don't know me! Where the hell's my money for this interview? I want some from Nintendo as well"

*Child goes to turn on the TV*

"Timmy? TIMMY? OH GOD, NO! DON'T TURN ON THE TELEVISION! YOUR FRAGILE MIND CANNOT HANDLE MOVING PICTURES!"

*Road Runner is on*

"What is THIS card? TNT? FALLING INTO HOLES? THIS CARTOON CAUSES CHILDREN TO SHOOT EACHOTHER"

DrZoidberg · « **Reply #2 on:** August 20, 2004, 04:46:30 AM »

They should advertise boxcutters on the side of busses, I hear they're all the rage with kids. Nevada girl moderates these forums ok.

odifiend · « **Reply #3 on:** August 20, 2004, 05:04:47 AM »

I like how they only mentioned Nintendo. I didn't see the entire bus ad, but I bet it advertised all three platforms. And God forbid she PARENT and get her child over it.
"It is sending the wrong message to kids," said Clairmont. "I don't even let my kids have a butter knife."
WTF kind of message is it sending to kids? People who brandish swords ride around town on Transit Windsor?

"The ad with the gun began appearing in October and the one with the sword was just introduced recently."
This woman is the stupidest in creation.

"They should be more careful what they're advertising because transit caters to kids as well," said Transit Windsor bus rider Betty Riley. "And they wonder why our jails are full and where these kids get these ideas from."
No, I was wrong.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #4 on:** August 20, 2004, 05:12:18 AM »

OMG! She has seen the secret ad! Now she'll die in seven days!

Plugabugz · « **Reply #5 on:** August 20, 2004, 05:14:58 AM »

Who will raise her children after that time? *looks at SUPER*

Ms.Pikmin · « **Reply #6 on:** August 20, 2004, 07:53:25 AM »

Maybe I'm callous, but when my kids see something that scares them I just tell them not to look at it and explain that it's just pretend. If I was trying to get on a bus and my child was afraid of a picture on the OUTSIDE I would use that approach, let them calm down some, then drag their @ss on. I honestly don't know what is wrong with that woman. A four year old cannot refuse to get on a bus. That kid is small enough to pick up and keep going. And she's just feeding his fear by keeping him away from any bus displaying the picture. Being sensitive to the child's fears is one thing, indulging them is another.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #7 on:** August 20, 2004, 10:45:06 AM »

There's a quality thread on the topic over at another forum I frequent:
http://highervoltage.net/mb/showthread.php?t=9080
(if you plan on clicking around the place, there are not-work-safe threads about)

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #8 on:** August 20, 2004, 11:13:26 AM »

This is no laughing matter. My little cousin killed her parents because she played Mario.

She jumped them to death. . . so tragic. . .

nickmitch · « **Reply #9 on:** August 20, 2004, 05:30:02 PM »

Yeah, and video games touched my little cousin when he was 4. . .

evil intentions · « **Reply #10 on:** August 21, 2004, 09:06:58 PM »

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Originally posted by: Hostile Creation
This is no laughing matter. My little cousin killed her parents because she played Mario.

She jumped them to death. . . so tragic. . .

I heard some kid drowned trying to find Spongebob Squarepants at the bottom of the sea.

Seriously...I mean, I was afraid of going into my cousins room when I was 3 because she had a poster of the Little Mermaid which had a small picture of Ursela on it. I wouldn't even go near her room.

Little kids are stuuuuuuupid. Gotta love em.

DrZoidberg · « **Reply #11 on:** August 24, 2004, 04:51:47 AM »

I have a crazy cousin who walked into her room backwards because she had a cut / scab thingo on her knee and she didn't want to see it reflected in the mirror as she entered. She's mostly pretty crazy.

Myxtika1 Azn · « **Reply #12 on:** August 24, 2004, 09:52:04 PM »

Garbage Pail Kids scared the green, slimy stuff out of my nose when I was a young'un.

Oh well, at least it tasted good.

Zach · « **Reply #13 on:** August 25, 2004, 05:24:28 PM »

I remember at halloween me and some friends would dress up and scare the sh1t out of all the little kids. That was so much fun, Except when a kid dressed as superman punched a friend of mine.

Anyway kids need to be afraid sometimes, what doesnt kill you makes you stronger.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #14 on:** August 25, 2004, 07:12:46 PM »

...Or puts you in a coma, only for you to wake up 4+ years later to go on a kill-crazy rampage of revenge.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #15 on:** August 25, 2004, 10:23:10 PM »

"But I guess what doesn't kill me only makes me stronger. AAAHHH!"
"Stop running away, I only want to chop off your arm! It'll make you stronger!"

ThePerm · « **Reply #16 on:** August 26, 2004, 05:43:16 AM »

the game takes place in persia around biblical times...thousands of years before guns were ever invented...

the sword is nowhere near a machete...its a scabard ..there is quite a bit of difference

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #17 on:** August 26, 2004, 10:27:49 AM »

Aha, a scabbard is a sheath for a sword...

I've always thought it was a variation of the kopis, but either way the woman is just over-reacting...

Gremio · « **Reply #18 on:** August 26, 2004, 12:16:01 PM »

Geez, talk about being overprotective. I wonder what would happen as the kid gets older and starts to do things on his own... like watch TV and read.... and want to spread his own butter over toast! *gasp*

Maybe just coming from where I'm at, being given army men and those loud pop guns toys as a little kid of like 5... helping my grandmother with the gardening which included holding all those *dangerous* garden tools and told bedtime stories about creatures with sharp claws like knives coming out of the trees at night to cut up and eat little children who don't listen to their parents...

My mom always thought children need to be given a good scare. Apparently when she was a kid (she says) she watched horror movies in the theatre and when a guy drove up to her when she was walking with a bunch of friends and asked HER to get into the car she thought of one of the movies and freaked out and ran off with the other kids.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #19 on:** August 26, 2004, 12:36:19 PM »

This lady's kid is a wimp and this is coming from a guy who was scared of everything when he was a kid. If I was scared of an ad on the bus my parents maybe, MAYBE if it was a one time bus trip thing and we didn't have a schedule to keep we might wait for the next bus if I was REALLY scared. If that happened it would happen once. Any later "I'm scared" routines however would result in being forced on the bus, to show that I had nothing to be afraid of.

Not letting your kid use a butter knife at a young age makes some sense since they could possible hurt themselves (though a fork is much more dangerous). But in this case there is NOTHING to be afraid of. It's just a picture of a guy with a sword. You see sh!t like that everywhere. It's on comic book covers and action figure packaging and movie covers and this is kiddy friendly stuff too. This picture can't do anything so the kid should just be forced to go on the bus to show that it's fine. The weirdos on the bus are much scarier. A picture is not dangerous, her kid is a f*cking pussy, and she's nuts to bring attention to this.

And it really bugs me when the media reports stuff like this with blatant factual errors. There are no guns in Prince of Persia so that gun comment is f*cking wrong. PoP is also not a Cube exclusive so Nintendo shouldn't be singled out. That's two blatant errors. How can they expect the game buying public or the industry to give a sh!t when they can't even be bothered to do some fact checking?

MattVDB · « **Reply #20 on:** August 26, 2004, 07:20:08 PM »

Her kid was what, 4? 2? At that age, I think they have the right to be scared, but the parent also has the right to take them on the bus anyway. Like previously mentioned, "parent" the kids after that. Over protective? I personally don't think there is a problem with a mother not wanting her kids to grow up wacked, but this only leads them to think that whining will get them their way. Something that I have a huge problem with.

ThePerm · « **Reply #21 on:** August 27, 2004, 02:24:37 PM »

a man with a determined look on his face is damn scary eh?..though then again...the new look for the prince is scary as hell.

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Author Topic: How Games 'Apparently' Affect Children (Read 7343 times)