Post by leunas on Nov 2, 2006 17:23:01 GMT -5
A St. Paul Minnesota Boys & Girls Club has come up with a revolutionary way to keep children occupied after school. Video games. Apparently kids like to play them. Who knew? The club has created a video game center complete with a 42 inch LCD television and an Xbox 360 in hopes of luring inner city kids away from the violence of the streets.
But wait, aren't video games supposed to promote violence in children? I'm so confused.
The center is part of a nationwide program sponsored by Best Buy and Microsoft in an effort to teach the inner city youth about all the technology they can buy from Best Buy and Microsoft if they would just stop shooting at each other for five minutes.
Club directors hope that kids who come for the video games will stay for some of the club's other activities. I personally hope a knife fight doesn't break out between a dozen angry inner city youth with only one 360 between them.
www.kotaku.com/gaming/xbox-360/game-centers-opened-to-quell-street-violence-211939.php