Video Game Girlfriend?

Silverman, Ben. "Does new video game take virtual dating too far?" videogames.yahoo.com. 16 November 2009.

Konami has come out with a new DS game. It is called Love Plus. Love Plus is a game where the player has a virtual girlfriend that they can create. The player has to do certain things to the virtual girl friend inorder to keep her alive and happy. The game will ask the player to "hold hands" with the girlfriend( done by touching the girlfriends hand with a pointer on the screen), take their girlfriend out on a date, or sometimes the game asks the player to "kiss" it's girlfriend. "Ok, this is pretty embarrassing. The DS has a mic and a touchscreen, so... one time, she asked me to say 'I love you' a hundred times into the mic. I was on the airplane when she asked me that, so I was like, no way. There was also this part where you have to hold her hand on the touchscreen. If you touch her hand with the stylus, you get to hold her hand. And then there's the part where you have to kiss her." -Koh

This is a sign of just how low of respect the media has for relationships and people these days. I think it is flat out wrong to have a game like this. Just think of all the damage to real life relationships this can cause. Men won't be able to learn respect for women or how to properly act in a relationship with women. Honestly, how many woman would let their husbands/boyfriends/kids play this game? It clearly is directed at single men who have no ability to connect to the outside world. Men(or more acurately "boys") who play this game probably have no social skills at all because they most likely have played nothing but video games out of their mothers basements for all their lives. If I ever meet the man that invented this game, I would not hesistate to give him a good 'ol smack across his face.