The following is a research paper I wrote for my final project in English.

Violent videogames have sparked controversy for the last 40 years, but do they really influence the people who play them? There has been an ongoing debate about this subject since the early 1990s. In this essay, I hope to shed some light on both sides of the argument as well as where I stand on the issue. First, let’s look at where this all started, and the history following that.

Violence in videogames has been an issue since 1976 with a video game called “Death Race”. The game was inspired by the 1975 film “Death Race 2000”, which had a cult following. The basic game play consisted of using a steering wheel and gas pedal to run over as many people as you can. When it was released, only about five hundred were made, and was banned just about everywhere. This was the first instance of violence in videogames being an issue.
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Ok, lets get this out of the way first to clear everything up. Video games are, in the most broad sense, role playing games. You play the role of SOMEONE, because I know for a fact that you’re not a bad enough dude to actually do half the shit you pull off in video games. That’s all the roleplaying you’re going to be doing. Yes. Even FPSes.

In Doom? You played THE DOOMGUY. THE DOOM GUY.

Let me tell you a bit about the Doom guy. He has been into hell twice. One time was a cheap trap, one time he VOLUNTEERED.

Both times he ruined Hell. They gave him a stairway back to earth just so he’d stop destroying everything.

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