Even thought more than half a century separates kids of 2010 and the children of the 1950s, (with the slicked back hair, cheesy rules, and Grease Lightning) parents it seems parents will never approve of their children's after school activities. Video games in our generation reflect the same problems that people had with comics a half century ago. Mothers around the country cry out that they are too violent, and that with every comic read or video game played her child is losing innocence. Even the rating on comic books is exactly like the rating of video games, ranging from the completely harmless to the extremely violent.
So the "video game zombies" of today was not the first and will not be the last of adolescent obsessions. Many people advocate for eradication of video games, but few realize that comic books had the same problem. As technology improves and new generations come along, the "corruption of youth" will just take on a new form and we will have to assimilate to the change of past-time.
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