Violent Video Games
Restricting the Sale of Games With Graphic Content to Minors
In 1958, William Higinbotham created the first video game, a simple program called Tennis for Two. In the ensuing half-century, video games have become increasingly complex, with highly realistic graphics and elaborate storylines. Today, the video game industry sells more than $10 billion a year in games to American consumers, and two in three American households contain a video game player. As video gaming has become more engrained in American society, some politicians, sociologists, and family values activists have become increasingly concerned with the level of violence depicted in a number of the titles. One in particular, Postal 2, has…
