Increase In Violence In Video Games Targeted At Children

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in a multi player situation and gave them aggression relief (Video Game Violence 1).
In another survey done by the Internet Wire in 1999, it showed that sixty eight percent of the people who took the survey thought that game violence was an acceptable form of entertainment. However, only five percent said that it would likely lead to violent tendencies and seventy three percent said that violent games had no impact on their behavior. The survey showed that gamers believed that it was more appropriate to kill fantasy monsters in the game then killing humans, but eighty five percent of them believed that the law suits the government is putting forth would not make a difference. This survey also compared violent games to other forms of entertainment, eighty percent believed that violent games were equal, if not less, in violence to television shows and featured movies. According to the survey gamers do not even pay attention to the ratings on these games, and the majority of youths ...

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