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[Announcer]
WBNT Channel 5 Boston
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[Reporter 1 - Tawny Little]
Video games are the latest craze to sweep the country and most of the world too
Millions of people are addicted to hours of gazing at electronic images on game screens and arcades and in their own homes

What makes video games so popular?
Well, we search for an answer as we begin a special series on "Video Fever: Games People Play"

[Reporter 2 - Josh Littman]
Part of the fascination is the way games are designed
Part of it is the sound

[Interviewee]
I like the details on it
There's good details on the games

[Interviewee 2]
Electronics is changing so rapidly
With each change in electronics, it brings something new
So this is not a passing fad
It's a very tough dollar. It's getting tougher. It's not easy
We all want that same buck

[Reporter 2 - Josh Littman]
Video games, in a sense, are addictive
Not like drugs, more like the need to jog

[Interviewee 3]
Peer relationships, a source of self-esteem, enjoyment in life, are wrapped up in video games just as they might be in bowling, running with your families with whom you run every Sunday, of sort [?]

I have not met anybody who can't go through the day, in withdrawal, from video games

[Reporter 2 - Josh Littman]
When you walk into an arcade, any arcade, come with an open mind
An open mind is easy to expand

Question. Is it fair to blame juvenile delinquency on the video game craze?

[Interviewee 4]
Kids who have not been good at much of anything else, some of them have turned out to be exceptionally good as some of these video games

Uh, talk about their high scores and their achievements, uh, the most esteemed [?] building activity in their entire life