Times writer accuses gamers of being on 'crack'

Is your Wii and DS no better than 'crack'?  We think there are titles on every format deserving of study, deserving certainly of ridicule perhaps, but no further.  There are books that lead the mind into all sorts of situations, ever so vividly too.  I recall reading books and being totally sucked into their world as a child.  I came out of it a dreamer, a writer and an editor.  Perhaps modern day children will play deeply entrenching games and come out of them games designers, or writers, play writers, editors, directors ... who knows?

Certainly there is a strong case to be made for limiting a young child's access to media machines such as PCs or consoles, but that's been the same since the dawn of anything interesting or addictive for children (TVs, radios, cricket down the common).  Your Wii should no more be unlimited in your child's bedroom than a TV or DVD player ought to be, but that doesn't make it pure evil.  Children need monitoring in every form of life - that's why we call them kids not adults - they aren't ready to make every desicion for their own health yet.  But attacking video games over and over because we didn't grow up with them (my first machine was actually a BBC Micro B at home) seems to me to be unresearched and ignorant.

Someone pass this lady a DS with a copy of Brain Training!