As children of the 80’s (12 during the Great Mortal Kombat Panic) we used to wonder why Adults never seemed to notice that Japan, which we were aware had a big gaming culture - as far as we knew gaming started there, didn’t seem to suffer the same problems that were being blamed on video games that the Western World did.
We concluded, as 12 year olds, that video games were being used as a handy scapegoat because admitting the real problems with your society meant you had to fix them.
