“The new video games seem to me to nurture destructive instincts…
DOES NOT a steady diet of this type of “entertainment” affect our imagination and stir aggressive impulses?
I am asking for consideration of the possible ill effects on persons of any age, especially the young, of constantly playing games of violence which are so attractive that persons almost become addicted to them.”
– Archbishop Philip M. Hannan
(The Clarion Herald, Volume 20, Number 43, 9 December 1982)