Violent video games: Just how bad are they? They’re this bad
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Posted April 15th, 2008 at 2:12am
by Corey Tamas
Everyone has met a parent or community leader who is only too happy to stand up on a soapbox and lecture ad nauseam about the perils of video gaming and how it’s going to turn our youth into frothing, soulless killers. Well, next time you see this person, show them this: PC Authority has a list of the five most violent games ever to grace the screen (or defile it). That’ll get them in even more of a twist than they already are. In case you doubt, check out this one entry about 1982’s Custer’s Revenge for Atari:
Custer’s Revenge is somewhat unique. It’s one of the earliest attempts at on-screen nudity – this is an Atari 2600 game, after all. It’s also just about the only game we can come up with that uses rape as a gameplay tactic, as a curiously pants-free General Custer attempts to ravage a low-res Indian maiden while avoiding getting an arrow straight through his… well, we’ll let you work out the rest.
For some reason, every time I hear the alarms go up about how violent a video game is and how it’s going to affect our youth, it always reminds me of this:
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