The common argument against this is that did playing super mario brothers make us all want to jump on and throw turtles around? Did playing tetris make people obsessive about placing blocks in tightly packed configuration? If you played Monopoly as a child are you bound to end up trying to corner a market in your adult life?
"Video games have no influence at all on kids, i mean, if pacman would've influenced at all our generation, we would be running around in dark rooms, eating colored magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
Kristian Wilson , Nintendo inc. 1989
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"Video games have no influence at all on kids, i mean, if pacman would've influenced at all our generation, we would be running around in dark rooms, eating colored magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music" Kristian Wilson , Nintendo inc. 1989