This topic even made it to Capital Hill, State Senator Jack Wagner of Pennsylvania has "launched a legislation to "make it more difficult for minors to buy, rent, or play graphically violent video games""(Muller). Wagner told Micheal Muller with GameSpot an online game magazine, "The level of graphic violence in video games far exceeds that which is permitted in R-rated movies. Since the age limit for R-rated movies is 17, I am proposing a similar age restriction for violent video games"(Muller). With the age of computer technology expanding exponentially, the real life feel of these games will only be surpassed with the addition of a climate-controlled room with a moving chair to complete the realism.
So, do they cause violence? Many people say that these games bring out the violent side of people, but do they? Hundreds of kids play the first person shooter games, but we have only had a hand full of kids have committed major crimes and half of them were not even link to any video game. Why is that? During WWII, everyone knew that Hitler played chess, it was a tool he used to learn about strategy and he used that same skill when he was the general of Germany, but we never outlawed Chess, why is that? It was a tool, Hitler used to kill thousands of people. In fact, people are now teaching Smart Computers to play chess and beat humans. Yet, we fear kids with guns, when we have Super Computer that can beat Chess Masters. Some day those computers will start killing humans, and people are not going to look at the game of chess, instead they will write books on the psyche of programmers and how they killed mankind! I personally am a big Counter-Strike player, I even started a dedicated server to host games for people to play on. And I know that game does not affect me in any way. In fact, I play it for entertainment and as stress reliever. Whenever the world is too much, I join a game on the Internet or a game that is hosted on the campus network, and save the world from terrorist.
