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Violence in Video Games Report: Q*Bert

September 25, 2008 in Blog comments 4

Old-Wizard investigates the correlation between video games and real world violence. In part one of their report they focused on Donkey, and now in part two they take a look at Q*Bert.

Aside from a small skirmish between a group of Dutch tourists and angry natives that took place on the eastern slope of the great pyramid in 1921, the Egyptian great pyramids have been amongst the most peaceful of the ancient wonders of the world. However, after the release of Q*bert, one British man climbed to the top of the pyramid and demanded that the entire pyramid be painted red or he would jump on everyone trying to remove him. Sadly he tripped and fell to his death before he could be removed and treated for his mania.
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    Final Blade Sep 25, 08
    Haha epic picture.

    We still going on with the video game violence and irl violence?
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      Daigoji_Gai Sep 26, 08
      Unfortunately that argument won't go away anytime soon. We are stuck with it, and probably will until we have a Larry Flynt type character that tells people to chill out, like he did back in the day when there was an uproar over porn.

      Society is changing, so eventually it will go away. It is just growing pains of being a new media... heck, Rock n' Roll was once the Devil's music and Jazz drove teens to have pre-marital sex and orgies... Just saying, nothing new with this phobia over gaming - or the irrational associations people make.
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        Final Blade Sep 26, 08
        I don't believe games is a new media, I think its been around a long time enough for this shit to not happen.
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          Daigoji_Gai Sep 26, 08
          I would argue it is, for a number of reasons - But to address it (the industry) being along for a long time, it was niche, and pretty was below the mainstream media radar. It was in its infancy up until recently.

          Look at the perception of a gamer. Up until recently gamers were "overweight smelly guys in their mom's basement" it is only now through gaming garnering mainstream attention (since the gaming industry now eclipses both the film and music industries) that the perception of a gamer in the mainstream has changed. Reports are being released now that are helping to validate gaming as a form of media - "maturation".

          And like the false-perception of a gamer that has persisted until reports over the last few years put it to rest, there are other "misperceptions" that will persist (like gaming leads to violence) but eventually will go away as gaming continues to mature.

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