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In response to "yep. funny that childhood obesity rates have soared after game consoles started selling tens or hundreds of millions of units" by zork

Nintendo was a huge seller in the 80's....we weren't allowed to stay in to play it all day.

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Apr 7 '09, 10:07

parents not parenting is the root cause, the NES/Wii/PS#/XBox is just the tool to help shirk that responsibility.

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yep when I was younger the Nintendo was in the family room so there was no way I was in control of the tv for long -- nm - J Apr 7, 10:11 4
- and there was probably only one tv -- nm - zork Apr 7, 10:12 3
  - no no I had a tv in my room and it did eventually get moved there - J Apr 7, 10:24
  - I had the game system in my room, with my own tv. - Will Hunting Apr 7, 10:21 1
    - Same here, and yes. My mom would say enough with the video games, it's nice outside, go play outside. -- nm - con_carne Apr 7, 10:23
exactly (still console sales are orders of multitude higher now) -- nm - zork Apr 7, 10:10 5
- Yeah, there's about 5 times more handhelds and consoles sold this generation already then there were NES systems. -- nm - Inigo Apr 7, 10:12 3
  - when I hear things like 50 or 60% (or is it more now?) of American households have one or more cosoles, I get a little freaked out. -- nm - zork Apr 7, 10:14 2
    - But why? It's another avenue of entertainment; nothing more. - Will Hunting Apr 7, 10:20 1
      - i've agreed all along that the parents need to be in charge of these things and put down real usage rules that are enforced. -- nm - zork Apr 7, 10:25
- *shrug* So's the gaming population. - Will Hunting Apr 7, 10:11
Will's right. -- nm - Stephen Apr 7, 10:10
agreed. -- nm - CQ Apr 7, 10:09

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