Video games started out very simply with games such as Pong, upgrading to Pacman or my personal favorite Atari game Asteroid. As the graphics became more sophisticated, the games became more sophisticated. I grew up on Atari and Nintendo games. My favorite Nintendo games were Mario Bros. 2 and 3, along with the Zelda games and others. As a child growing up with this relatively new technology, would I say that it influenced my life or the way I think?
I remember watching my next-door-neighbor play violent but primitive computer games such as Doom. Doom is a first person shooter where you are generally killing demons by shooting them. Doom was eventually moved onto the console platform via Nintendo 64. I was never very interested in games like Doom and the first really violent game I played was Resident Evil which is classified as survival/horror. Obviously, games in this genre are meant to scare and they get our pulse racing, but is it possible that there's more to it than just a faster heart rate?
