“I’m convinced that video games are Japan’s stealth strategy to turn our kids’ brains into silly putty as payback for dropping the big one on Hiroshima... The trouble began last summer when my sons started spending virtually every unsupervised hour camped out in front of the computer screen engaged in multiplayer role games like World of Warcraft and Counterstrike.”
– The Wall Street Journal (editorial).

Comments (3)
Actually, this is true. I had to sign a piece of paper to this effect, swearing to declare open warfare on America's young, when I joined my first Japanese company. Especially Counterstrike and WoW are great examples of subversive Japanese game development.
Posted by JC Barnett | January 5, 2008 1:48 AM
Posted on January 5, 2008 01:48
How could the Japanese possibly affect us Americans when we have such mastadonic penii? Besides, we are fighting back by attacking their children with western games such as Pokemon, which Japanese kids believe they can use to fight the evil power.
Posted by Kain | January 5, 2008 6:54 AM
Posted on January 5, 2008 06:54
Bad writing, much worse then some of your other examples!
The sheer uninformness - the fact he relates two entirely *non Japanese* games to Nintendo/Japan is perhaps the most insulting part (they don't even own a wii!), beyond thinking game entertainment is worse for kids then TV, movies or anything else, and finally, as a parent I presume he is convinced it is nothing he can do about it, so it must be someone else's fault.
And it isn't in jest, sigh. A *real* cutting edge editorial; the rest is all reasons why X is bad, from very random news sources, as justification for the initial argument that someone else is to blame. Bad writing indeed.
Posted by Andrew | January 6, 2008 3:13 AM
Posted on January 6, 2008 03:13