Society Being A Bad Influence To Videogames

SOCIETY BEING A BAD INFLUENCE TO VIDEOGAMES

I remember that about fourteen or maybe sixteen years ago, mom refused to buy me a Nintendo. She claimed that it would damage our TV Set. Maybe it wasthe only “main problem” with videogames many years ago. However, my generation could enjoyed some masterpieces of games, and spend hours and hours in front of the television, just playing with SuperMario Bros., and nothing wrong happened to us. But later, many videogames haters including psychologists claimed that videogames are violent, could affect subject’s behavior, and for many other reasonsthey considered it as a bad influence to our society.
There are several violent games such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, Grand theft Auto, or Mortal Kombat, but all of them are made for a maturegamer population. Besides, what do you expect from a game about modern warfare or something about kill zombies and monsters; kisses, butterflies or rainbows? It is not a secret the existence of severalindividuals with some metal diseases or psychological problems; those people would be violent by nature, and videogames just offers one of multiple ways to unleash their inner violent instincts.
Let´sface it, movies shows violent in a raw and more explicit way than videogames, but almost nobody says anything against directors, scriptwriters or even actors. What about soap operas, it shows violentscenes in almost every chapter, ironically, this kind of “entertainment “are very popular among women. Many sports are extremely violent too, such as boxing, football, professional wrestling and themixed martial arts, and millions of people around the world just enjoy watch it.
In my opinion videogames are not a bad influence to society, but society is a bad influence to videogames. If youdon’t believe me, just examine some historical facts: Cain didn’t need a violent videogame to kill his younger brother Abel; also, Romans didn’t need a GTA game in order to crucify Jesuschrist. Call of...