Video game content versus Television content.  My video game collection is extensive and spans nearly 20 years.  You might say I’ve seen it all, played it all and conquered it all.  I’ve played pong, Space Invaders, Pitfall, Mario Bros, Tyson’s Punchout, Sonic Hedghog, Donkey Kong, Street Fighter, Madden Football, NBA Live, Street Racer, Sega Tennis, Ninja Gaiden, World of Warcraft, WWE wrestle Mania, Tony Hawk Skatboarding, Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Guitar Hero.  The list goes on and on.  You name it, I’ve tried it.  Some of it clicks, some of it doesn’t.  I’m not quick to curse a game just because its premise is something I don’t usually go for.  For instance, I hate NASCAR, but I’ve tried race car games on at least 5 different systems.  I think people who dress up in Goth attire are queer but I’ve played Gothic I, II and III.  I can’t throw a football 3 feet but I have 15 different football games, likewise with tennis, baseball and basketball.  I think wrestling is a fraud but I would take on anyone in a WWE/WWF wrestling game in a heartbeat.  I’ve played Halo against 9 year olds in Hong Kong and virtually bitch slapped a guy from Norway in Ghost Recon.  Hell, I’ve even snipered a Foreign Prime Minister from 500 yards away in Call of Duty.  Video games aren’t my entire life, technology is.  I still love technology.  Always and forever. 

Video game violence has become dramatically more real.  But the premise is still the same from the early days of gaming systems.  It’s kill or be killed and like P.J. Morganfowler says companies are in this to make money.  The more realistic you make a game, the more copies you will sell. In this industry, the fans have reaped the benefits of evolving technology that has taken gaming to new heights.  The violence has become so controversial, oh dear, it’s so graphic.  How dare we let our children play these games?  I have the social skills of a child and I’m not adversely affected when I drop a bomb on a village of innocent civilians and then watch in slow motion as their bodies are blow into shreds, guts and body parts flying everywhere.  It feels so good to kill and evade capture.  Killing without repercussions is gratifying.  I’m not a threat to society but I’ll tell you what is.  The ABC Family channel. 

I was in the lobby of the blood bank getting ready to give blood because I needed the money and I had the opportunity to watch about 10 minutes of an ABC Family produced movie.  In once scene a man and a woman engaged in a graphic sex act.  This sex act was 10 times more explicit than any scene I’ve ever seen in a video game.  I thought to myself, this is the ABC family channel?  I wonder what kind of hardcore porn they put on regular ABC television shows?  In another scene, an unwed teenager was giving birth to a child.  Again, this is an out of wedlock child giving birth to another child.  That concept is way more controversial than any theme I’ve seen in any video game I’ve ever played.  Lastly, a third scene showed yet another graphic sex scene between an unwed man and a married woman.  They actually showed the man ON TOP of the woman giving it to her nice and slow.  This is the kind of love making reserved for people who are married and in love like me and Lisa Goldstein.  Video games are only a small portion of the problem.  Regular, every day television is just as bad as Grand Theft Auto IV.  In fact, it’s much, much worse.  So why don’t you video game critics turn off your PS3’s and start watching he supposed “family” channels and report back on the overwhelming number of adult themes present.