Question: does a persons childhood games affect them in later life

Simone Bijvoet answered on 17 Jun 2011:

What exactly do you mean with childhood games? If you are talking about computer games, there is a lot of research going on at the moment about whether violent games can influence children’s behaviour. So far there haven’t been any clear results that would prove that they will harm children. I think the main idea behind this is that as long as children understand it is a game and that when you for example kill someone in a game that doesn’t mean you can do that in real life, children can perfectly keep games and reality apart from each other. It’s a bit like pretending, you can be or do anything during a pretend game, but that doesn’t mean that you are becoming your character or anything and as soon as the pretend game is over you will go back to being you. 🙂
Hope this answers your question a bit.