And I would find it hard to believe that the development and use of these things hasn't had a collective effect on our psyche. One has to wonder if these games would be so popular if push-button death weren't so chic.
I'm not quite so sure... stick your average 14 year old in a foxhole. Give him a gun and real bullets flying over his head and a friend that is in the adjacent foxhole dying. I don't think he is likely going to think its fun. More likely going to be peeing his pants.