Time Magazine’s 10 Questions with Shigeru Miyamoto

By Dan Zuccarelli . July 24, 2007 . 11:50am

I read this column over the weekend and I was struck by the fact that Time magazine decided to feature a game designer. Games in the US just usually don't get taken seriously by the mainstream media, but maybe this is a clue that the tide is beginning to turn. One can only hope.

Here's a sample:

Do you think violent or explicit games can negatively influence young children? —Reinhart Klein, SEATTLE
The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences. Violence is one means of doing that, [though] I look to make people laugh or smile. But the more we have parents playing video games themselves, the more they will understand the interactive world and how to deal with games that have a tremendous amount of violence.

To read the rest of the column, click here.