Gamer-haters have yet another reason to be pissed off at how video games are destroying society. 21-year old Hiroshi Shimura is a Tokyo college student, and he just admitted to killing a 61-year old man and his poor 86-year old mother to get money to support his arcade game addiction. "I spent the money at video game arcades. I murdered them so I could steal some money," Shimura told investigators. (Don't you love how frank Japanese murderers are?)
Last month, Shimura was seen withdrawing money from a convenience store ATM with the victim's credit card. Very shady! Well, we don't have to worry about him anymore. He's been arrested and taken to a place far, far away from Club Sega and all those other dangerous places where adult kids indulge in their addictions to Guitar Hero.
*sigh* I know of people that murder others for their car, their watches, their jewelery, to support a drug addiction, just for the thrill. But I don't see cars targeted as the source of the problem.
"If they'd stop ZOOM ZOOM ZOOMing, they'd stop KILL KILL KILLing!"
Posted by: Jae | February 16, 2007 at 02:14 PM
Fittingly, the game is actually Guitar Freaks in Japan. It's part of Konami's famous Bemani series.
Guitar Hero (by Harmonix) was certainly inspired by the Japanese game.
Posted by: Dusty | February 17, 2007 at 10:51 PM