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July 11, 2010
The Concerns www.chinagoshop.com
The video game sector is the fastest growing entertainment industry and second only to music in
profitability. Global sales of video game software hit almost $18 billion U.S. in 2007 (PCWorld,
January 2008).
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Video game playing is nearly universal among kids. A 2008 study by the MacArthur Foundation found
that 90% of children play computer games at least occasionally. As the audience for games grows,
however, children make up a smaller part of that audience, and more and more of the most popular
games are rated "M" (intended for adults 17 years or older). Unsurprisingly, these M-rated games
are popular with young people as well.
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Despite the huge impact of video games on youth culture, there is not a lot of research available
in this area, and few of the studies that do exist stand up to critical examination. This lack of
scrutiny means that we know very little about the effects that video games may have on children's
development and socialization. While video games have many positive aspects, parents should be
aware of the following issues related to this highly interactive form of entertainment.
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July 11, 2010
THE VIDEO GAME REVOLUTION www.chinagoshop.com
For half of the American population, an examination of the past, present and future of video
games might seem as relevant as a two-hour documentary about skate board wheels or a frank and
open discussion of the Slinky. Video games? That's what spotty teen males wearing black t-shirts
do in the basement, right?
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Wrong. What that half of America might not know is that the other half of America is regularly
playing video games. And it's not just kids any more. The average video game player — or "gamer"
— is 30 years old. That gamer isn't feeding quarters into an arcade machine, either. He (and
increasingly, she) is playing on a home computer, having adventures under a different name and
identity in an eternally existing cyberworld full of danger, romance, and thousands of other
people pretending to be somebody else.
And that home computer is ever more electronically sophisticated because it was designed in part
to play games. Gamers are also playing on home consoles — Playstations, Game Cubes, XBoxes.
They're just game machines now, but the powerful companies that make them expect their future
home consoles will control not just games, but the television, PC, DVD — all the electronic
information and entertainment we see.
Increasingly, that entertainment will be game-inspired. There used to be video games and movies.
Then there were video games based on movies. Now there are movies based on video games. The video
game industry has surpassed the movie industry in revenue, even though video games have been in
existence for only about 33 years.
THE VIDEO GAME REVOLUTION
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The Video Game Revolution examines first the history of games, beginning with a 1950s engineer
named Ralph Baer who suggested that televisions should have on-screen game playing. Ralph's boss
thought he was nuts. Then in 1972 an ex-circus barker named Nolan Bushnell produced "Pong", a
bouncing dot that became the biggest thing to hit taverns since the beer nut. The Video Game
Revolution features exclusive interviews with game-making pioneers, many of them still involved
in game-creation, including Shigeru "Donkey Kong" Miyamoto, Jason "Crash Bandicoot" Rubin, Will
"The Sims" Wright, Chris "Dungeon Siege" Taylor, Peter "BC" Molyneux and Megan "Nancy Drew"
Gaiser.
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Along with the people behind the games, Video Game Revolution profiles people in front of the
games, including a couple that met and married as on-line characters and then met and married as
themselves, and a classic game distributor and graduate of Cal's Coin College.
The Video Game Revolution is primarily an entertaining look at the world of games, but all is not
fun and frolic in that world, and the program touches on that as well. Many games are extremely
violent — and that violence is rewarded, which deeply concerns parents like program guest Pamela
Eakes of Mothers Against Violence in America and legislators like Senator Joe Lieberman. Games
can also be dangerously addictive, and are getting more so through continuous on-line playing.
The Video Game Revolution concludes with the future of gaming, including the possibility that
some day our homes will have game rooms like the holo-deck in Star Trek: Next Generation — a
completely exclusive game environment — or that a microchip inserted directly into the gamer
will allow play without any external apparatus. As one game maker says in The Video Game
Revolution, "The real model we're building is the one in your head, not on the computer."
The Video Game Revolution from KCTS/Seattle was produced by Greg Palmer and Marcie Finnila and
written and hosted by Greg Palmer. Executive Producer is Enrique Cerna.
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