There has been a lot of controversy about Grand Theft Auto 3 (GTA3) mainly because of its extreme violence. Certainly, this game was not designed with children in mind. Personally, I consider most of the debate on the effects of media to be fruitless. Any quick look at media history tells us that scared adults who did not bother to pay close attention to the subject of their fears have been responsible for causing all sorts of media-phobia. Historically, rock'n'roll, comic books, films and even novels have been blamed for corrupting the young. I am sad to let you know that you, my dear reader, were born under the sign of dangerous videogames. Let's pretend for a moment that violent videogames do actually encourage violent behaviour. If that was the case, how many deaths do you think videogames have caused so far? One hundred deaths? Maybe even 1,000? It is a big world out there, so let's assume there have been 100,000 undocumented cases of people killed or seriously harmed because of videogames. I hope any videogame detractor would agree with me that this is an outrageously exaggerated figure.