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Violent Video Games and Aggression
Title: Violent Video Games and Aggression
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1785 | Pages: 7.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Violent Video Games and Aggression
Was Pac-Man a violent video game? Some would argue that it was. Not because Pac-Man went around gobbling up little white dots, but because “the game's title character engages in a violent act of eating ghosts” (Jones, 2001). Just about anyone who has played this game would agree that this quote is fairly comical. Pac-Man certainly does not strike one as being a violent video game; most people would probably consider it to be a harmless, …showed first 75 words of 1785 total…
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