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/^t/Although parents are so afraid of video games, professionals find that they do not cause any psychological traumas. Hundreds of video game players have been interviewed in the last two years and no evidence has been found that playing games makes children violent. Moreover, psychiatrics maintain that games help to relieve aggression that could be otherwise directed against society. It has already been proved that in towns where video game arcades exist, the amount of violent young people in the streets is smaller than in towns where young people do not know what to do with their free time. When a group of boys playing an interesting war game in the arcade was asked how they spent time before the arcade was opened, they admitted they painted a monument green and pink and broken a few windows in the centre. Now, they say they stop doing such things as they think the arcade provide them with much better entertainment.