Raul

This is ridiculous!!!!!!!! Wal-Mart is taking the responsibility of gaming content shown to kids off the parents and assuming the responsiblity for everyone. I am 31 years old and I have been gaming since Atari, Coleco Vision, and Vectrex. I have watched the games and systems develop as we all have. As our times change and the violence and sexuality grows with each decade so does the intelligence level of our children. These games like GTA, Dead to rights, True crimes, etc with all the violence and nudity totally matches whats going on in the real world. I mean hell watch the news for a week and then play one of those games. To be honest you cant tell the difference
between reality and the game, other than the graphics. If a young teen decides to play the video game doom(I have written a paper on video games and violence for a class in college the columbine boys did get their idea from the game doom) and then goes out and kills his classmates like the columbine duo who's fault is it. Is it the game makers, is it Wal-Marts for selling it? It is the damn parents fault. Any child who blurs the reality of right and wrong because of a video game should have their parents head examined. Game makers have a certain target demographic and in these types of games its the MALE 18-34 demographic. If a 13 year old boy buys a game intended for an 18-34 year old whose fault is it. The games are even rated just like a damn movie. So if your under 18 and cant get in to see American Pie becuase its rated R then you shouldnt be able to buy a game that has the equivalent rating. Why wont Wal-Mart just ask for an ID when purchasing games of a R rating. Ill tell you why because then they would lose the sale and possibly the customer because the child was angry and mommy doesnt like Wal-Mart anymore. I religiously play these games and just this weekend I spent 7 hours on Need for speed Most Wanted but I did not go outside jump in my fast camaro(yes i own a camaro) and try to ourtun police. Take my word for it I am a die hard gamer and in 20 some odd years I have easliy beaten over 100 games on all systems including dreamcast,playstation, xbox, nintendo, n64, atari etc. Lets put more reponsibility on the moms and dads of the world not Wal-mart and game makers
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