int main(){ cout<<"VIDEO GAMES"; return(0);}

    Personally I don't play many commercial games (like Nintendo or commercial software) The only Nintendo games I like at all are Super Mario World for the SNES, the F-ZERO games, and some Zelda games. I mainly stick to games I can download to my Xandros Linux computer, the latest of which is Privateer: Ascii Sector.
    I have never played a mmorpg, so I can't give much of an opinion on them; however, I do know people who had a marriage fall apart partially because of WoW (or something like it) so I can't say that I have a very good opinion of them.
   I did try a simplistic Java rpg called Tyrant and was wrapped up in it for a week or two, but I soon got very bored with it. All I would do was wait for some goblins or other monsters to come and attack me and then kill and all of them and take their gold. It got really boring really quickly.
  As for video games being harmful, I believe they have the capacity of becoming so; however video games in of themselves are not bad. They are just another form of media like books and television. Books aren't bad, but if all you ever did was read them and didn't do other important things, like homework, that would not be good. Granted though, it would not be as bad as if you only played video games and did nothing else.
    As far as I can see video games are not bad, but they can be misused just as books can. Too much can be detrimental, but it is easier for these games to be used excessively than it is for books, for they have almost none of the benefits of books. People who let games get in the way of family have gone way beyond what the limits should be.