It began innocently enough, in the 1970's. While our parents were preaching free love, smoking pot and listening to their Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix records, computer nerds had invented the first ever home computer game system, The Atari. This games system, which promoted stunning state of the graphics showed nothing more than two dimensional rectangular blocks, with a circular block representing a ball. The sole game on Atari was of course pong. .
Today while our obese, unhealthy children, listen to their parents tell stories starting with " When I was your age, videogames- they laugh, shrug it off, and walk away, seemingly uninterested in 2-D tales of videogame past. What today's fast-food generation fail to understand is that in a way, the Atari paved the way for today's videogames. In fact, if there was no Atari, we"d still all be playing pinball machines, two-up and god forbid, recreational sports.
The Atari-History website even referred to it as the "Big Bang Explosion" of video games. True to the theory, videogames came out like cheap semi pornographic B grade movies of today. Although there were a couple of classic gems, such as Pac-man and space invaders, most of the videogames were basic and monotonous and it wasn't until the introduction of the Nintendo entertainment system (NES) that videogames really took off.
Who could forget the classics? - Super Mario Bros series, Donkey Kong, and of course the amazing and revolutionary Zelda series. The NES released in 1985 to western countries, totally revolutionised videogames, in terms of graphics and gameplay. Now more than ever, these games were fairly priced and readily available and it wasn't long before most households owned a Nintendo. As Nintendo gained popularity and exposure, certain family groups took notice of the seemingly graphic portrayals of violence in some games.
Goodies trying to ruin our fun - Censorship pokes its @#%% ! * head out.
Governing the Internet dominates many debates, censorship leading the fight. ... (Censorship and the Internet 1) This can be done with software, not government intervention. As stated in "Censorship and the U.S. Government," "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity it should end there" (Censorship and the U.S. ... As one can see, censorship is driven by the fear of the unknown. ...
The results indicate that almost every country worldwide was perceived to have political censorship on the internet in certain degree and international students have different criterions of evaluation of cyber-censorship. ... Several studies have been conducted on the extent of knowledge and views on censorship among the general public. ... Regardless of these negative attitudes towards Internet censorship, there are also some positive views that censorship provides web users with preventative protection. ... Hence, it is essential to survey their knowledge of censorship and their attitudes to...
Censorship of the cinema and television is justified. ... The Censorship Board of Malaysia banned those movies from coming into our cinemas because the movie promotes violence, drugs and sexuality. ... The censorship is justified as it will protect our society from moral decay, religious critism and we have the ability to watch the movie with our family. Lastly I still think that censorship is bringing benefits to us rather than destroying us. The censorship is here to stay but we can't predict the future maybe the censorship board will be dissolve in the next coming years. ...
Censorship Censorship is the banning of written work. ... Censorship is a short term benefit for schools and a long term problem. ... Censorship certainly protects people who are sensitive to certain issues. ... You can't have censorship without infringing on the basic human rights. In conclusion, censorship shouldn't even be considered. ...
Rap and Censorship The beginnings of rap are believed to based on African rhythms which were used as a form of communication by the native peoples. ... Not all of government's attempts at censorship are as obvious as "Censorware." ... Local governments practice censorship even more often than the federal government. ... The private sector, most notably in the form of super-retailer Wal-Mart, has joined the government in the censorship war. ... One of today's leaders in censorship, especially censorship of rap, has become C. ...
Ownership is like the owner of something, who has the legal right to something or to control What is Censorship? ... How information and media control and ownership relate to censorship? ... First is the Information and media control, without the information control it's may cause conflict and confusion whereby the information just release without any approver knowing, without ownership the information can be use and publish to every one, if there is no censorship this also may cause harm and violent to public, so information control, ownership and censorship is very important for me...
Music Censorship in America "Music censorship is any discriminatory act that advocates or allows the suppression, control, or banning of music against the wishes of the creator or intended audience" (Nuzem 7). ... Music censorship is not American. Censorship is not new; it has been around for as long as government has. ... If any artist has felt the direct effects of censorship, it was Elvis Presley. ... But just because censorship occurs this often doesn"t make it right. ...
We need censorship to protect children from being exploited and exposed to things they shouldn't be. ... Congress is not all the way for censorship though. ... (www.epic.org/free_speech/censorship/) We also need censorship on the television. ... Since the addition of cable there is a needed increase for censorship. ... Censorship is a necessary and beneficial limitation on society. ...
Censorship is not as recent as most people think. ... Censorship must cease before it gets to be out of control. ... Censorship is used in the novel by burning books. Censorship is oppressive. ... Corporations like Wal-mart have used censorship as vengeance and discipline. ...
Censorship In Fahrenheit 451, as in society today, censorship has completely destroyed originality and intelligence throughout the country. ... In some ways censorship is good, but in other ways it's gone too far. ... In the United States, censorship relates to this by keeping people from hearing all the facts. ... Censorship denies the public right to speech in all of its forms. ... In conclusion, censorship controls today's society. ...