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Ash
14-12-2000, 05:08 PM
Do computer games affect children ? I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all sit around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music.

[This message has been edited by Ash (edited 14 December 2000).]
CPFC_R_GREAT
14-12-2000, 05:11 PM
So you think soon people will start robbing houses, stabbing people, shooting each other no way that'll never happen!
Dodgy Ken
14-12-2000, 06:09 PM
So popping the pills allows you to eat the ghosts. Nothing wrong with that.

Was there ever any other hidden messages in games?
Chris K
14-12-2000, 06:59 PM
I always wondered why Mario grew big when he ate a mushroom.
David Murray
15-12-2000, 01:34 AM
Sodding things weren't even invented when we were kids - jigsaws and bl00dy hankies - really dangerous stuff !
David Murray
15-12-2000, 01:35 AM
Originally posted by Ash:
Do computer games affect children ?

Not as much as the bloody Palace BBS affects the parents http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/frown.gif
Eddie McGoldrick's tash
15-12-2000, 08:21 AM
I believe they are dangerous.
If for no other reason than many kids these days don't actually go out and function with other human beings. Instead they sit in their rooms all day and develop no social skills and have no interaction with others.

I'm not saying buying your kid a playstation is bad but some parents think that is ALL it takes to be good parents. Children need to be talked to and to go out and find themselves a real life not just a 32 bit one.

-Anyway got to go and get back to Championship manager. (i can't stop playing it!)
Skid Row
15-12-2000, 08:51 AM
Well I've played games on the Atari, C64, Amiga 500 and the PC and I ended up following Palace through computer games so to me they are ****en sensational. The fact that I've turned out to be a dickhead is no coincidence.

Gotta go and get more alcohol, it's our christmas break up you seeeeeeeeeee.

GO EAGLES!!!
Mat ov CPFC
15-12-2000, 12:16 PM
Originally posted by David Murray:
Not as much as the bloody Palace BBS affects the parents http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/frown.gif

Dave has a point here. Myself and TAK where discussing this yesterday and there were two names mentioned. Their first few postings seemed to indicate that they were both in steady relationships, owned property, had interesting careers that seemed to have real promise but then things began to change. Thier postings became darker, the drink began to take over, in fact it seemed as though thier whole lives began to crumble and in one case ended up with a brush with the forces of law and order ( on more than one occassion ). Now I am not saying that their lives would have turned out differently without the help of this Website but somehow I doubt it.

This BBS should carry a health warning.

Still, looking on the bright side, it makes amusing reading for those of us with balanced lives so alls well that ends well.

http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/smile.gif



[This message has been edited by Mat ov CPFC (edited 15 December 2000).]
Ash
15-12-2000, 08:54 PM
Originally posted by Mat ov CPFC:
Myself and TAK where discussing this yesterday and there were two names mentioned

Which need a public airing I feel (a bit like Britney's knockers).
David Murray
15-12-2000, 08:57 PM
Originally posted by Ash:
Which need a public airing I feel (a bit like Britney's knockers).

or Claires email !
Kevin T
15-12-2000, 09:05 PM
I don't know if it was intentional, but that read like a bloody autobiography. However, I don't blame the BBS for that. If I'd lost my job I could blame that on the BBS, but amazingly I've kept that.

I've sussed one of the names though.
arussell
15-12-2000, 09:23 PM
No

Now where's my BFG so that I can go out and frag some Wolves fans .....
Ash
15-12-2000, 09:27 PM
Are footy chat sites affecting the old b*stards of today ?
Matty
16-12-2000, 03:35 PM
Originally posted by arussell:
No

Now where's my BFG so that I can go out and frag some Wolves fans .....

Don't BFG make our kit?
Bud Eagle
17-12-2000, 07:51 PM
Having grown up in the 'golden era' of computer games, I can say that for certain that games have not affected me in any way at all.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to get ready for an evening with a Lara Croft lookalike. Oh and someone remind me to phone my mate Mario.
Dodgy Ken
18-12-2000, 03:40 PM
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After spending saturday playing England to the world cup finals, I took over the planet building a might civilisation, it was a busy weekend, cos on sunday morning I won the Austrian Grand Prix, before racing through Tokyo in my Fiat Barchetta. By the evening I was saving the world from an evil swarm of zombies. After work I will be stealing cars and running over their drivers. Who said game playing was effected by reality??

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GUCCI Eagle
18-12-2000, 03:49 PM
The fact that I go to bed every night with the latest Championship Manager screen burnt into my retna at 6:00am is irrelevent.

'In my day I used to play with a brick and a piece of string. Kept me amused for hours it did'

Yeah cheers Mr Murray http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/wink.gif
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