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> CIGGIES AND GAMES ARE SORT OF THE SAME... LITTLE SQUARE BOXES THAT TEENIES GET HOOKED ON. So even then we suspected the addictive aspect o

> CIGGIES AND GAMES ARE SORT OF THE SAME... LITTLE SQUARE BOXES THAT TEENIES GET HOOKED ON. So even then we suspected the addictive aspect of video games?

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voberoi 4y ago
Yes, this was part of the public discourse around video games in the 80s. See: https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-claiming-that-video-games-cause-violence-33 https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-claiming-that-video-... This is a quote from an Erma Bombeck article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Bombeck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Bombeck).