Since their Inception video games have included content that
is not appropriate for children. It is a simple fact, before Call of Duty let
players massacre a Russian Airport, before Assassins Creed let you stab the
pope, before Grand Theft Auto let you get drunk and run over prostitutes while
shooting elderly women, before Doom sent players to Hell and back, before
Mortal Kombat let you rip a man’s spine out of his body, the list goes one. Many
people can look at video games and say that they are a toy for children, some
of them are, and some of them definitely are not. As long as there have been
mature video games there have been kids wanting to play them, they are like an
R rated movie only better. This would not be a problem if children could not
get the video games, but they can. As long as they have parental consent,
someone under the age of seventeen can legally purchase and video game rated M
for Mature. It is very easy to get parental consent when the parents are not
aware of what they are buying, to them a game is just a toy to keep their child
occupied when they get bored. This should not happen. Parents need to be made
aware of what is in video games so that they can make educated decisions on
whether or not it is appropriate for their little munchkins to play or not.
~Joe
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