The reason that "we simply now accept games depicting murder, drug dealing, crime and sex as simply fantasies" is probably because that's what they are. Nobody has *ever* managed to prove that people with a propensity for violent video games and movies are any more or less likely to be violent in real life.

The technology available now just makes it all more accessible and seem much more realistic. If you want to take it to extremes was Pac-Man the first drug taking video game, all those pills and the shocking performance enhancing 'power pill'?

I would agree that much of the stuff out there is tasteless and designed to shock (but that's good for the box office right?), that doesn't mean you have to watch it.