Video Game Nation?

make_edit · March 25th, 2008, 05:04 PM

I guess the nation is dead.

make_edit · May 19th, 2008, 03:45 PM

Got Rock Band for the xbox360. Very cool, but more so if you have a couple of people to play with you!

SewMe · January 26th, 2009, 05:09 PM

You have got a very good point. When I see kids with 3 and 4 game systems, I think its nuts! One should be enough...even though some games are exclusive to certain systems..when do you really have the time to play? Parents have to monitor and get things under control.

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Originally Posted by Robert Young

I enjoy gaming when I can afford the time, but as life creeps up on you there seems to be less and less of that precious free time, ahhh. For those younger who are involved too heavily I would tend to blame their parents instead of them. With the demise of family dinners together parents seem to accept any form of distraction that keeps the kids quiet (TV, Gaming, Out with friends, etc) IMO

Worn Id · February 4th, 2009, 01:51 PM

As a single mom of 4, I hear ya!! We have ONE gaming system - Game Cube
(my chioce, because I love the mario games! :P)
Time on the GameCube is no different than time on the computer, it is a privilage and it is earned. Computer can be used for homework, but nothing else if they have not earned the time. We have no fighting games, and I discourage them being played elsewhere. They don't even ask to play that often, especially now that we have DSL and they can get on the computer and talk to their friends and such.

I agree with Robert, that it is not the kids as much as I believe it is the parents...
Even when I see kids jsut running around looking like they are up to no good, I wonder what there parents are doing.

Recently (this is a little off the subject of games) there was a high school girl who became pregnant - she was a starter on the varsity VB team. She continued playing LATE into her pregnancy an deven appered in the starting line-up at State! Many area communities were upset with the school allowing this to happen - I agreed, BUT as a parent, my child would have been BENCHED by me!! She would continue going to school and receiving her education, but sports is an extra cirr and she would not be participating!! It was insane!

OK, so I guess I will be quiet now. Games, computers, whatever the case... it can only be a poor influnence if the person allows it to be, if a kids is getting more attention at the computer or behind his game conmtrols, then that is were he is going to be. We need to be parents first and hopefully when they are grown they will actually want to be our friends too! IMO