Videogame debate on The Alan Titchmarsh Show; ITV Player

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:Until something newer comes along, video games will always be the "bad guy", as it were. parents always need something to blame other than themselves. Before games, it was video nasties. Before that, it was rock and roll.

Moggy wrote:

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:Until something newer comes along, video games will always be the "bad guy", as it were. parents always need something to blame other than themselves. Before games, it was video nasties. Before that, it was rock and roll.

In the 1930s it was comic books.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8574484.stm

rudderless wrote:

blackoutHERO wrote:I don't think there has been a room full of so many banana splits since the Manchester Derby.

If only football matches were played in a room rather than a stadium, that joke might have worked. Unless you were talking about you and your mates sitting down to watch said game, of course. WINKYFACE.

Hordes have you have been left fuming by the claims of actress-cum-'sexpert' Julie Peasgood on the Alan Titchmarsh Show last week - on which CVG's own editor Tim appeared to defend the industry.

She's the one who said video games were "addictive" and "promote racism", remember? Oh - and we quote - was "categorically against violence for entertainment".

And yet a bit of digging... and hey presto. There's the credit for Julie's appearance in survival horror video game Martian Gothic: Unification.

Julie voiced Harroway in the Take Two title, which was released on PC and PlayStation.

According to Wikipedia: 'In Martian Gothic, the player is able to assume the roles of three characters sent from Earth to a Martian base called Vita 1 to examine why it has been silent for 10 months, after a base member broadcasts a final message of "Stay alone, stay alive."

'Upon arrival the player finds that all the residents are apparently dead and must gradually uncover the secrets and nature the last undertaking by Vita 1's crew; the discovery of ancient Martian "Pandora's Box" which, when opened, started a chain of chaotic events that led to the base's downfall, and death of all almost its inhabitants.

'However, during the player's progress of uncovering the truth, searching for any possible survivors, and solving Vita 1's many mounting problems, the player finds that the dead crew have become re-animated like zombies who wish to feast upon the team of three's flesh.'

'Feast upon flesh'? Julie? Julie?

Gobsmacked, people.

aaronayl1 wrote:strawberry float you Tragic. Missing my joke.

Moggy wrote:

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:Until something newer comes along, video games will always be the "bad guy", as it were. parents always need something to blame other than themselves. Before games, it was video nasties. Before that, it was rock and roll.

In the 1930s it was comic books.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8574484.stm

jafro360 wrote:In 20 years time we'll be the parents scapegoating our childrens fault rather than blaming ourselves and have and we'll have Alan Titchmarshs offspring along with the Mckenzie offspring with with the future sprog offspring of single mothers complaining about holographic dancing with a representative of that industry there and we'll be the ones complaining then.But it'll be okay Sarah Palin will be running World but hopfully an asteroid will have hit Earth to give us mercy before the inevitable.

JayGo wrote:http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=239985

Hordes have you have been left fuming by the claims of actress-cum-'sexpert' Julie Peasgood on the Alan Titchmarsh Show last week - on which CVG's own editor Tim appeared to defend the industry.

She's the one who said video games were "addictive" and "promote racism", remember? Oh - and we quote - was "categorically against violence for entertainment".

And yet a bit of digging... and hey presto. There's the credit for Julie's appearance in survival horror video game Martian Gothic: Unification.

Julie voiced Harroway in the Take Two title, which was released on PC and PlayStation.

According to Wikipedia: 'In Martian Gothic, the player is able to assume the roles of three characters sent from Earth to a Martian base called Vita 1 to examine why it has been silent for 10 months, after a base member broadcasts a final message of "Stay alone, stay alive."

'Upon arrival the player finds that all the residents are apparently dead and must gradually uncover the secrets and nature the last undertaking by Vita 1's crew; the discovery of ancient Martian "Pandora's Box" which, when opened, started a chain of chaotic events that led to the base's downfall, and death of all almost its inhabitants.

'However, during the player's progress of uncovering the truth, searching for any possible survivors, and solving Vita 1's many mounting problems, the player finds that the dead crew have become re-animated like zombies who wish to feast upon the team of three's flesh.'

'Feast upon flesh'? Julie? Julie?

Gobsmacked, people.

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Somebody Else's Problem wrote:Until something newer comes along, video games will always be the "bad guy", as it were. parents always need something to blame other than themselves. Before games, it was video nasties. Before that, it was rock and roll.