A Veto on Video Games

A Veto on Video Games is an article written by Lloyd Garver and published by Newsweek about "A parent speaks out why he has barred TV video games from his home" - Newsweek

Why It Sucks And Is Invalid

 * 1) The author and his wife are mean parents. They admit it in the beginning of the article.
 * 2) The author believes that children are obsessed with video games when in reality, they also do other stuff like going outside, making friends, and doing well at school which the author claims doesn't happen.
 * 3) The author claims that he had his son's 2nd grade teacher ban the word "Nintendo".
 * 4) The author believes that video games are not good for you, yet there's other articles from actual professionals and not parents that claims that video games actually are, and actually give valid evidence.
 * 5) He calls lots of games "Killing Games" when they mostly are about saving the world and not about seeing how many innocent people you can kill.
 * 6) He claims that children like to play violent games for hours when lots of them are not violent yet enjoyed games such as Tetris.
 * 7) Some so called "violent games" he mentioned such as Robocop, Motor Cross Maniacs, and Super Street Fighter aren't that violent as there were more violent games such as Night Trap and Mortal Kombat, which he never mentions.
 * 8) He claims that his daughter enjoys Duck Hunt at her friend's house and claims that that game is about viciously killing animals but that game is based on real life sport of duck hunting which lots of people do mostly to bring home food. That game doesn't have a ton of ducks at once and you don't use a machine gun to take them all down.
 * 9) He even claims that children won't listen to you unless you tell them that they got them a new game, which that statement isn't true at all.
 * 10) He believes that electronics are dominating their children's lives in a bad way. This is false because this article is from sometime in the late 80's/early 90's (which this wiki article was made in) and as of 2021, children still play outside and electronics are being used for learning purposes too. (An example is ABC Mouse.com which makes learning fun, Lloyd!)
 * 11) He says that children are more into the video games at stadiums than the actual game at the stadium but children still like watching sporting events even if the stadium doesn't have video games.
 * 12) He believes that children in the future will believe that the first people to fly planes are the Super Mario Bros when in 2021 which would be the future back when the article was written, everyone including the author of this article debunking and saying why Lloyd's article sucks know that the first people to fly planes are the Wright Brothers and that the Super Mario Bros are fictional Italian plumbers who rescue a fictional princess in a fictional setting.
 * 13) He thinks that people will think that the baseball at stadiums is fake and that the baseball in their video games is real, which is ridiculous since people know video games are fake.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) He states that children are getting better and better at games which is the only thing that everyone can agree on even if they do other stuff too.

Trivia

 * 1) This article was featured in a 7th grade textbook.
 * 2) It's possible that the son and daughter could be gamers and have consoles and let their children play video games.

Original Article
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