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To: Ron Harvey who wrote (7766)	8/29/1998 6:03:00 PM
From: StaggerLee	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14266

"Mom! I wanted BOOKS, NOT GAMES! Don't you GET IT? I HATE YOU!" In 1998, this frantic crying appeal is being heard from children across America. Twelve year old Jimmy Davidson of Chicago explained his feelings in a recent interview with Parental Guide Magazine. "My mom and dad think we want these stupid game cartridges, like the ones THEY played with 20 years ago. That's so queer! What I want this Christmas is a 28 volume Encyclopedia Brittanica - and I DON'T mean the CD ROM version!" Children are moving away from the video game age in large numbers. "My dad sits around all day watching wrestling on TV and drinking beer. Then what do I get for Christmas last year? A Wrestling video game! Duh! Like, I'm sure that present was intended for ME. Hey, did you hear they're opening a new Waldenbooks at the mall?" Analysts suspect that kids' anti-game backlash is contributing to the devistation of the video game industry, where many stocks are off their highs by 50% or more. "Kids are sick of adults force feeding them THEIR idea of fun. It's like when our parents tried to get us interested in train sets, for God's sake. It was queer-o then and it's queer-o now. Only this time, it's costing naive investors LOTS of money." Joshua Roberts of Indianapolis commented on his first day of school, "thank God I'm out of that house, away from video game HELL. Back to the BOOKS for me. That's all I really want out of life, is books. Not games. When will adults realize that there is more to life than freaking video games? You don't see our President ever playing games, do you? And he's the President!"