Video games are serious business. They’re poisoning the minds of our youth, desensitizing them to violence, and keeping them from wholesome outdoor activities like basketball or beating up the neighborhood runt. Or something.
Anyway, tempers can flare over video games, with virtual spats bleeding into the real world. Take a case from Westlake, for example.
Cops say two men who were attending a “Japanese animation video game conference” at a Holiday Inn (and definitely not getting laid in one of those hotel rooms later on), were duking it out on “Super Smash Bros.” After some sort of disagreement, the 27-year-old Cleveland man and a 21-year-old Canal Fulton man got into an argument over the game.
This article appears in May 4-10, 2011.
Wow, 30 Rock reference slipped in.