Aging Gamers

The May 20 editorial, “Gory Games and Free Speech,” was off the mark in saying, “Parents are understandably frustrated by games that encourage their children to shoot, maim and degrade increasingly realistic and movie-like characters.” As the average video game player is now 30 years old, it makes (dollars and) sense for games to be geared mainly to that age group.

Parents should, of course, monitor what their kids play. Yet, as a 50-year-old gamer, I’m immune to gore and violence as I’ve been exposed to it for decades and I’ve yet to kill or maim anyone because of it.

Jeff Yablan

Los Angeles