Parents Not Informed About Gaming?

Posted by simoniker on Sunday September 21, 2003 @11:54PM from the game-of-life-skewed dept.

Thanks to GamerDad for their opinion piece advancing the claim that parents don't pay enough attention to the videogames their children play. The article argues: "While the mainstream press has reported on the push for games to become adult entertainment, and games makers have tried to create so-called 'mature' games to fill this apparent void, the reality is that many of these M-rated games are being played by children under the age of seventeen." It goes on to put forward the theory: "Parents simply are not informed about gaming... [and] probably believe that even games like Grand Theft Auto III are video games, and therefore they are for kids."

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Re:Why should this be any different than... by evilquaker · 2003-09-22 00:38 · Score: 2, Informative

Comics, animation, and gmaes have grown up.
Animation and comics grew up long ago... games are relatively recently catching up.

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Just in case you wanted to see the questions by einTier · 2003-09-22 05:44 · Score: 3, Informative

and the answers, they are all right here.

Most of them are easy, though I can see why a young kid wouldn't know them. Some of them I still don't know, just because I don't have the right chronological frame of reference.

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