Comments on: Video Games Teach Kids to Gamble

By: Ryan Henson Creighton

Ryan Henson Creighton — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:57:27 +0000

> Start a games company and produce loads of games that do not contain gambling. Aah we just pointed out that this is very difficult if not impossible.

Hmm! Now THERE’S an idea. i should definitely look into starting my own games company. Thanks for the tip, Ray.

By: rom016

rom016 — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:25:12 +0000

Life is rooted in gambling. When you cross a road you gamble your life. You can take a safer bet by looking listening and thinking, but this does not always pay off. There are several nut jobs on the road who could come tarring round a bend swerve past the guy that was crossing the road and run you over, because you heard him coming and decided to wait. Every time you breathe you gamble your health. You could breathe in all manner of airborne disease.

If gambling in games is such a problem for you, you have a few options:
1) Boycott them
2) Start a games company and produce loads of games that do not contain gambling. Aah we just pointed out that this is very difficult if not impossible.
3) Create some games that contain casinos but keep to the proper house odds or even make it harder for the player.
4) Realise that money is worthless and you are betting on it having value in the future. See the Zimbabwe Dollar, the German Papiermark, all the currencies that went the way of the dodo when their country changed to the euro. You can’t avoid gambling it is a natural occurrence.

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:03:31 +0000

And here’s another: if you’re a parent and you’re worried about video games because you’re unsure of their content, sit down and play a video game. Watch your kids play them. Ask questions. Check the ratings. Read about the game on Wikipedia. Type the name of the game in Google and look at screenshots. And if you don’t like what you see, listen to Joe: don’t buy them.

Stay tuned, though, for a controversial article where i actually *don’t* lay the burden of responsibility on parents.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:55:32 +0000

Here’s an idea, if you don’t like the video games, don’t buy them. If you think they encourage gambling, don’t buy them. If you think they have an actual connection to violence in schools or real life, let me think…. DON’T BUY THEM! What a wonderful concept. Isn’t it just amazing how in free market economies we have the choice what we can and cannot buy?

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:01:33 +0000

You’ve got a point there, sakket. Really, anything that’s based on dice or cards has a high propensity toward gambling.

That’s the weird thing about Japan, though. They’re also not allowed to show pubic hair on film. It has to be blurred out. Yet left to their own devices (and pubic hair notwithstanding), they come out with some of the most bizarre, unsettling pornography on the planet.

Tentacles, anyone?

By: sakket

sakket — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:41:50 +0000

whats sicker is that almost every other game in existence is rooted in gambling! all the way back to monopoly! if you roll the wrong number you’ll head right off to jail! I wont even MENTION dungeons and dragons!

and anything from japan is going to be more of the same. real gambling is illegal there, but nothing stops them from virtual gambling! will they put it in their games? heck yes! they’re desperate for gambling!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:09:48 +0000

Whenever you play Mario Party, you’re gambling on whether or not you’re going to have fun. And just like real gambling, you almost always lose.

By: Laura B

Laura B — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:15:56 +0000

Might I add a comment to video games that teach kids to gamble…Mario Party 8 for Wii has a very interesting game board. In order to win, you invest your hard-earned coins into Hotels. The person who holds the most coins (see: shares) in a Hotel wins that hotel and the player with the most Hotel wins.

Gambling, no, investing, yes? Is it for me? Absolutely not. I’d rather duke it out for some magic candy.