You can't frag on a Cube.

No you can't, but that wasn't the point. There is tons more fun to be had on a game system then a simple game of b-ball or football. Over and over again you are doing the same damn thing, tossing the a ball around a court. Doing this day in and day out becomes a chore and while this is good exercise, how many kids actually play sports and HAVE FUN?

Video games, a good majority of them, have much mroe to do than a game of sports or even a movie. Every kid, including myself, that I knew growing up never liked playing sports much but their old man forced them to play for the school team, or on a team somewhere.

This however didnt make me hate sports, but I never liked sports that much to begin with. I love watching movies and playing games, go kart racing, cooking, reading. Only one of these activities required me to go outside ... well, three if you include arcades and theaters.

And cooking may be an odd hobbie, but I love food. Though most of my time was spent watching movies, playing games and reading books. But isnt it funny how no one targets books, even with their explicit detail on sexuality and violence, that goes far beyond your average gorefest of a movie?

And with all of these hobbies, that led to me sitting on my ass half the time, didnt make me overweight. In fact I have never been overweight, I have been underweight, but never over weight and I am very healthy. And I am not the only person.

The whole "video games = fat little kids" theory is just that, a theory - a retarded one at that. If a kid is over weight and playing video games, he has more of a problem than just sitting on his ass. He/she has to be sitting on their ass all day, eating a ton of junk food and NEVER going out or doing anything.

Oh and not to mention some kind of thyroid problem. Right there it is not the game sthey need to be worrying about, but actual health problems brought on by something else or possibly a disease passed down.

"If you can't beat them, join them. Family time can include playing a video game."

That right there is the not only the greatest idea, but the most adult comment I have heard so far about this. All these "doctors" claiming video games make your kids fat are acting like a bunch of children that sounds more like "im right and your not, neener neener!". My daughter is mroe mature than that.

In fact she has had a DS since she was 3 years old and she plays it not only better, but more often then she does with all of her other game systems like the leapster and the v-smile. Toys that help kids learn are nice, but thats what us, the parents are for and teachers.

What kind of parent wants to leave their kid with a toy to teach them and run off to do something else? Some say its convenient, but the truth is that it is an excuse, a cop out to the fact they dont know how to raise a kid let alone care to. What a lot of people dont think before they have kids, do I have the time and resources to take care of them? I didnt think of that, but I will be damned if I am going to neglect my child because of it.

Bottom line, even though me and my daughter, and almost all of my friends in the past played video games day in and day out. We also went to the theater and the mall and the park, etc. etc., so on and so forth. None of us ever went overweight, and I myself played at the very least 40 hours of gaming every week. When I was a kid that is. I am lucky if I get in 8 hours a week, even with the PSP and DS with me all the while - LoL.