Video Games and the Male Mind

      For those of you who have been in a coma since around when the first Star Wars movie came out in theaters and just woke up, we now have these things called 'video games' that can be played on our tube-less TV and graphics-capable computers. While you marvel at that (and our lack of neon-colored suits) I should also tell you that these video game things have also been a teensy bit controversial. One of the theories that swirled around the motive for the Columbine shooting was that the boys responsible had played too many violent first-person-shooter games. And now there is rising alarm in some circles that the age of the average gamer is now 35. The popular image of the boy who had 'failed to launch' used to be the bachelor who played the field with girls instead of committing and settling down; now it's a fat, unwashed slob who plays World of Warcraft or Call of Duty until 4AM. So what's the deal here? Why is this one form of entertainment so enticing and divisive?