Extra Lives: Population Control In Videogames
The debate about overpopulation is the value of human life: quality of life versus quantity of life. Is having 10 billion miserable people better than having one billion happy people? Population control is a taboo subject in just about every art form and is generally left as the goal of only the worst villains. Still, even when voiced by evil-doers, the concept of population control is just as rare in videogames as in other media, and virtually non-existent as the goal of a protagonist.
