: I remember being 5-7 years old playing Mario not wanting to kill the goombas
: or turtles! They're just minding their own business Mario!!

I think that (Jack Thompson ?) might have been on to something because, years later, when I was playing the Mombassa Streets part of ODST - I would scan the 'radar' looking for a red blips that signified enemies and I would run to fight them - I was so het up that I wanted to bite them to death with my teeth. "Die COVIES! That's for Reach."

When I play batman I beat up everybody in a district and then move on to beat up another district, knowing that the previous district would respawn so I could beat them up again.

At the end of a fight, the last man standing would sometimes say, "I'm the victim here.". And I would agree, "Yes, you're my victim: BITCH! You're all my victims.". I run around beating them up. If there was a granny on the streets, perhaps walking home from a late night Christmas service, I would totally dive bomb her ass and break her hip in a well choreographed, free flow attack. "Don't you know there's a curfew in place? I am the law. I am batman!"

I think that playing games has changed me ;-)