opacity said:
Hmm.... I wonder if bb guns and paintbull guns count as violent toys....
I'm going to say no since there's no video game about them. I wonder if anyone actually played those video games before making that list. I'm going to assume that they did NOT since absolutely no one played Beast Wars.
lol... i'm really mystified by this list. it's just bizarre, the reasoning of it and the quotes in the article about progression in such things...
i don't remember anyone blaming Frogger for kids getting hit by cars... or now blaming our military actions on a generation playing RiverRaid and Tanks...
and while i'll admit that the cartoons & toys of Rainbow Brite & Strawberry Shortcake probably are a bit behind my hair colors for the past decade & a half or so, well, i've yet to kill anyone with a sword in the manner of She-Ra/He-Man nor have i ever owned a horse (come on, EVERYbody had a horse in that era of cartoons it seems)...
i've not heard much about people jumping off cliffs or such due to too much Wily Coyote... though that may explain bungy jumping now that i think about it....
unnecessaryz
Astoria, NY
July 2003
DEC 01, 2003 10:09 AM