14 DAY TRIAL // We all know that there are a couple of games out there that can pull out the violent side in us... However, some people's violent side comes out when they're banned from playing a certain title. This was also the case of a Halo 3 fanboy, who punched his mother and a sheriff's deputy because he wasn't allowed to play Bungie's blockbuster. Parents told the boy that it was time to go to bed, after a long session of Halo 3 play.
However, the game's hardcore fan refused to do so and the parents took the DVD out of the machine so he couldn't play Halo any more. The boy started searching for the game, tearing the place apart and punching his mother in the process. After finding the DVD, the enraged kid went back to his room, locked it and started playing again. In the meantime, the police arrived at the scene and managed to cuff the fellow, but only after some serious struggle.
How's that for a game addiction? This time there's no reason to blame Halo 3, Bungie or Microsoft, but rather the lack of socializing and the way we become addicted to media products. The boy was turned over to juvenile authorities and he'll have to face charges of battery (both domestic and on an officer). We've all yelled at our parents when it was eleven o'clock p.m. and we were still playing some Final Fantasy title, while they were constantly sending us to bed. However, the sane thing to do is apologize and hope that they'll give you back the console's power cord, DVD or CD in order to play the game once more.
This goes to show that gamers can become as addicted to videogames as some people are to drinking or smoking. Will we ever see a label that says "May cause addiction" on the back cover of gaming titles?