Video: Donkey Kong Goes to Harvard

Researchers consider home and arcade games to be teaching tools

Mothers and fathers of River City! I say watch for the telltale signs of your child's deg-re-day. Does he look like a glassy-eyed zombie? Are her little fingers forever twitching? Are those lunch-money quarters disappearing into the black hole of pleasure? Does he tell you he's going to zap you right into hyperspace? If so, friends, ya got trouble, right here in River City. Trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with V, and that stands for video games!

Ever since the first pong was pinged, video games have been accused...

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