Yes, there is an actual article about this. From Nintendo, actually. I found a video from a die-hard gamer, but his commentary is too colorful to put a link. http://www.nintendolife.com/news/20...nimal_crossing_named_in_violent_games_rundown I honestly think again, this is funny as hell. Mario Kart and Wii Sports are violent? They cause the shootings? I don't believe video games cause violence, and I honestly thought it ended when Jack Thompson got his BAR license suspended indefinitely, but apparently it's still out there. I have played most of the games and can't believe that they are considered violent. Thoughts? Games Listed: Mario Party 9, Wii Sports, Mario Kart Wii, Animal Crossing: New Leaf and New Super Mario Brothers Wii. Oh yeah, they're saying because of "comic mischief" and "cartoon violence." >< In another interesting note, they're also being blamed for causing cancer. NOTE: There's a bit of swearing in article. http://www.destructoid.com/videogames-now-accused-of-giving-children-cancer-241979.phtml This just floors me more than anything else. Having played video games since I was a little kid with no problems, I again think this is funny as hell.
They've been arguing about about cartoon violence for years. You heard it all the time with, for example, Looney Toons. About anvils being dropped on a toon's head or blown up or getting their face shot off with a gun. Now they're just targeting e-rated games because more kids are playing video games instead of watching cartoons. Because kids are impressionable and don't know the difference between reality and fantasy. To which I say bullpucky. I watched all sorts of cartoons [still do sometimes] when I was a kid and I can say I never expected a piano to fall from the sky. I was never prone to violence because of said cartoons. Same logic can be applied to video games. I never sought to duplicate what I played in those games because they were just that. Games. Works of fiction I could interact with. Only thing was I couldn't really play games with rapid flashing images because I had a mild form of epilepsy and it would give me severe headaches. But I didn't try throwing barrels at anyone. As to the cancer part, that's just silly. As stated, myself and hundreds of kids spent the better part of their years playing video games and by their logic, we should all have cancer.
The thing is with Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry is that it's more violent than video games. I don't think that kids ever did 90% done in cartoons, but in a game where the goal is to cross the finish line first and get shells thrown at you is violent? How? Some kid is going to throw a shell, maybe a blue one at someone? Maybe in Wii Sports they'll throw a wildly elaborate jerky jab at someone irl? (Yes, I don't like Wii Sports motion controls.) Mario Party 9, eh... Maybe, but it's a stretch. I'm sure Nintendo is loving the attention anyway.
