Video Games are bad for you ☠️☠️

“In May 1981 Labour backbench MP George Foulkes proposed a bill for the ‘Control of Space Invaders and Other Electronic Games’. They were, he said, a ‘force for evil’, dependent on ‘blood money’ extracted from children:

I have seen reports from all over the country of young people becoming so addicted to these machines that they resort to theft, blackmail and vice to obtain money to satisfy their addiction …

That is what is happening to our young people. They play truant, miss meals, and give up other normal activity to play ‘space invaders’. They become crazed, with eyes glazed, oblivious to everything around them, as they play the machines. It is difficult to appreciate unless one has seen it for oneself. I suggest that right hon. and hon. Members who have not seen it should go incognito to an arcade or café in their own areas and see the effect that it is having on young people”

Currently reading: The Great British Dream Factory by Dominic Sandbrook 📚