The conducted two studies to try to relate aggressive behavior to violent video game playing. ... The second study involved two-hundred and ten students and the doctors had some students play Wolfenstein 3D (a violent video game) and some students play Myst (a non-violent video game). ... The students that played the violent video game punished their opponents with the noise blast for a longer amount of time then the students who didn't play the violent video game did. ... The first video game, Pong, was released in the early seventies. ... (gamemarketwatch.com) These alternative strateg...

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The most famous games are such as "call of duty" a game where the player incarnates a soldier and "world of warcraft" a MMORPG game, which is based on the cooperation of various players to achieve goals. ... The same pattern emerges with the apparition of widespread video gaming. ... Zelda: The oracle of time, Mario Bros or Final Fantasy can easily be compared to master pieces of theater or cinema as regard to the cultural impact these games have on today's youth. ... Except that the player will not fire a shot nor kill anyone for the whole game. ... The practice of Mo...

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She claims that his son's friend was too obsessed with the game that he considered himself to be a character from the game (Wilson v. ... His parents later on prohibited him from the game after playing 18 hours straight and locked the game in a lockbox where a gun was also in there. Eventually, the boy opened the lockbox and removed the gun and the game. ... The boy, according to the defense attorneys, was influenced by video game addiction (Harvey.) ... In the final analysis, I think these types of games do have a relationship with the crazy behavior around youth. ...

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Interactive games generally take the form of multi-linear narratives, which is why "Run Lola Run" has been compared to a video game. ... Lola's "determination to succeed ", as well as "her confidence in her own ability ", seem to be far greater in the final part of the film (Kosta). ... Moreover, the films narrative structure has been compared to that of a video game; a "Lara Croft made flesh " (Ebert). ... The ability to "replay " a sequence is one of the most characteristic aspects of computer-based gaming, and is usually accomplished by saving the game state at regular intervals (usual...

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