Mainstream media shouldn't demonize computer games over recent suicides

Cnet Asia, 13 Mar 2009, Michael Tan
Recently, the mainstream media in Singapore has taken to demonizing computer games. You're causing problems for me when you do that. I've played computer games since I was six, from Pong to World of Warcraft, to Street Fighter 4. Online and offline. Even Facebook minigames. I didn't kill myself, but then I'm only one.
But if you throw a dozen stones at Raffles Institution, you'd probably kill 10 computer gamers. When I was there in 1985, we had something like 20 percent penetration, just by feel. With PSP, DS, PS3 and a couple of PCs in every home, I'd put it at 100 percent now.
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