Video games hadn't been invented when I was a kid. I was in the Air Force when I saw my first one. A two player tennis game in a bar.

So without video games we played army with toy guns shooting each other for hours. That evolved into bb gun wars. Every boy I knew had a pocket knife and we played mumbly peg and stretch with them. Most kids were part of a family with one tv, one car, and dad earning the money. A lot of people didn't have a house phone. Cell phones weren't invented and a few didn't have electricity or water in the house.

Today we need more stuff. More cars, more phones, more games, more TV's, more clothes, computers, satellite or cable tv. Women don't know how to cook or garden. Everything comes packaged, frozen, microwavable in a can. Men don't know how to butcher.

The result is kids are spending all the time we spent outdoors using our minds to entertain us, indoors watching tv or playing computer games. Mom is working to buy the extra stuff nobody really needs and kids are being raised by their schools and tv and video games.

In way to many cases mom is a parasite living on welfare and dad is nowhere to be found. We can't do anything about women to lazy to cook and working to buy stuff her family doesn't need that is actually probably detrimental to kids welfare, but we can end the welfare that is the number one reason for so many fatherless families.

Are you mentally ill?

PONG... Lol

That was a while back.

played it on atari, while i waited for a more blood thirsty video game to surface, to ruin society.
Space invaders was the best, but its violent to aliens, so cant play that.

Mike

We may want to be cautious about advocating that the bulk of those using firearms to kill people are all insane. We all may have touches of insanity to a lessor or larger degree and we may not want to have our rights lost if we are too many standard deviations from some sort of yet to be found norm. We may not want persons with some but yet unknown degree of insanity establishing rules and laws for all of us. The bulk of our citizens are according to Meyers Briggs externally referenced humans and that means we establish our beliefs in who we are and how we are doing based on the opinion(s) of others and mix that with stress, drugs, alcohol and ready access to a wide variation of weaponry we are faced with an issue that won't be easily or quickly resolved.

Bryce