There is a small flaw in that statement: you can not seriously compare Packman and GTA. It is an entirely different thing for a teenager to be playing Packman than GTA. The main problem is that teenagers ARE playing GTA when they should not be.The Last Nomad said:Whether or not the police-man is made up doesn't really matter, whoever thought up the words attributed to him is just stupid.
"When I was young it was all Pacman and board games. Now they're playing Grand Theft Auto and want to live it for themselves."
This 'policeman' played pacman when he was young, at yet he did not become a pill eating ghost hunter, he became a police officer, yet he seems to assume kids these days will be very different to him.
With that said, it's still silly to blame video games directly. I can believe that games cause at least some sort of problems in children if they play games that they are NOT supposed to play (I'm referring to age restrictions). However this does not merit for blaming activities such as these to games, the blame falls in my opinion mainly on parents and partly on society.