Video Games Not All Bad

Written by Jon Downs
Published December 22, 2004

For once, a news story about the POSITIVE effects that playing video games can have. Get that? POSITIVE effects of playing video games. They don't always turn us game players into rampaging murderers.
The short:
Playing Super Monkey Ball, on the Gamecube (classic game on a classic console) can apparently significantly reduce the errors surgeons make during operations. Now that's gotta be worth further research (which is exactly what's happening)
Full story - thanks to Wired News

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Video Games Not All Bad
Published: December 22, 2004
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#1 — December 22, 2004 @ 11:16AM — Matt Paprocki [URL]

Gamecube a classic console??? Uh, no. Not yet. Give it five more years and we'll talk.

#2 — December 22, 2004 @ 11:43AM — TDavid [URL]

Maybe Jon means/thinks Gamecube will be a classic, Matt? A little skeletal, me thinks.

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