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Video games are enjoyable for people and have good benefits for children who use their multiple skills to play and interact with others. In many parts of the world, the common video game is often seen by parents as something that is wasting their child's time or “rotting their brain”. It is a popular misconception that video games are bad for children. What parents do not know is the positive things about video games. Video games have a positive impact on people and help them learn things for experiences to come. People often do not understand that violent video games are not harmful to people because video games allow people to release their anger, video games decrease crime in youth, and because they allow people to be creative and test their

After reading both essays on video games called, "Video Games Enhance the Lives of Youths" and "Video Games Put Youth at Risk" I've come to an agreement. I myself belive that video games are dangerous to children but also healthy. For example children sitting for long hours a day playing video games can be unhealthy, but its a way for kids to escape the real word and pretend to be someone else being stress free. One another hand some games provide education for children. To begin, I quote "Gaming can be directly linked to a rise in childhood obesity", a child needs to be limited to the time they sit on a couch and stare at a screen.

In “Electronic Gaming Monthly,” there was an article that explained the top five negative aspects of videogames. Isolation: people can become obsessed over a videogame. Shawn Woolley, a young fan of the popular Everquest, committed due to bankruptcy. The game makes you pay-as-you-play, and he played too much. Addiction: people have been known to “forego work, relationships, and even food for the sake of their online play.” Physical problems: many of today’s games have vibrating controllers to give a more interactive feeling. A 15 year-old kid developed “hand-arm vibration syndrome,” burning sensations and inflammation in the hands and arms, due to playing on his Playstation too much. Violence: Senator Joseph Lieberman ran a campaign against Mortal Kombat due to its “spine-ripping gore.” Even Captain Kangaroo was brought in, explaining that videogames teach lessons to kids that would cause a parent to faint. Violence numbing: when a child plays a violent videogame, the terrible news in today’s world barely faze them since they have seen worse in the videogame, even though it wasn’t real.

According to the Guardian article How Online Gamers Are Solving Science’s Biggest Problems, some video games are specifically designed to solve a problem in science. For example, in the game “Cropland Capture”, gamers find land that can grow crops to support the growing world population. Although games can be beneficial for kids, science, and the world, not all video games are like this. Most video games do not involve education of any kind. Violent and intense games can still evoke aggressive behavior in children and damage relationships.

For as long as I can remember, I have never heard my parents once tell me that videogames are good for me. They were always yelling at me about my eyesight and declaring that videogames cause violence. Videogames are portrayed as devices used to instill violence in children, cause bad eyesight, and overall, are terrible for children to play. You hear in the news about how there was an increase in murder rates and an increase in video game production, so it must be that videogames are causing people to want to kill others. But the truth is, video games aren’t what the adults running these news lines depict. They are devices that can change lives, heal relationships, help people cope with a loss, and etc. Though I have not gone through any traumatic events, videogames have helped me elsewhere. I would not be who I am today without them. I believe in the power of video games.

Video games have been argued about for decades. Some people have argued that video games are linked to violence. However, new research shows that video games can be used for therapeutic purposes, exercise, stress relievers, positive interactive learning, hand eye coordination, and different types of patient treatment for people all around the world.

Video games have quickly become the new major source of entertainment for the youth and the upcoming adults of the world. The youth seem to be giving more of their free time to video games. However, they have always seemed to have a bad reputation with many people of all generations. People are starting to believe more and more that video games are nothing but trouble. They feel as if video games are a waste of time and the youth could be using the time they spend on video games on more productive tasks or activities. What if they were actually a good thing for the younger generations to be involved with? Many would doubt that is possible because they feel as if video games cause the youth to become lazy and less intelligent. There has

In today’s modern age technology has become a part of our day to day lives. Nowadays it seems like everything tries to be digitized and electronic. If you go to most cities and everyone there will have an electronic device on them. Some parts of the cities may also have places dedicated to just technology. Entertainment for kids was to either go outside or watch television, now kids will use phones, tablets, and computers to fill in that time. But there is one type of entertainment that has had controversy even when it raised to popularity. Video Games have been known to have ups and downs over the years. Why have video games been getting a bad rep over the years? Will video games ever get the positive recognition they deserve?

“Do video games support violent and terrorist acts”? “Do video games influence those into conducting sexual and racial abusive actions”? “Do video games worship Satan”? These are but a few controversial questions that I have heard throughout my lifetime when it comes to video games. Whenever there seems to be some sort of problem that had occurred, there is always some way to put the blame on video games. Whether or not that they had some sort of influence, it would seem that gaming has always been some sort of escape goat for anything wrong in the United States. And for those who didn’t play video games during their time, they would fall victim to the stereotypes, and they would be blinded onto seeing the other side of gaming. And in doing so, this would lead them to become a person with a fixed mindset about it.

Excessive video game playing has been a problem with today’s youth they have had more influences over the youth than ever before. That brings to my attention a question, how do video games affect the youth of our society? Excessive video game playing, especially violent video games, can lead to youth violence, a decrease in academic success and many other negative things. I realize that some parents believe that they can be good for children, I agree but I also disagree in some cases. Some parents allow their children to play video games to keep a social life and to learn how to use strategies. This is true in some cases but not in all cases. For instance, other children that play video games alone and are in their rooms constantly can

Video games have been growing in popularity since the day they came out, but what do they do to us?. Most adults see video games as a bad addiction and only see the negative aspects. But truth be told, there are many good things that can come out of playing video games. Video games have many benefits: they can improve knowledge, make people physical, and can help people overcome certain problems.

The debate has started ever since there were tests when the first console has been released to take home and play in the living room. Ever since then scientists study them to find out if video games are bad for a person’s health, and if playing them for an excessive amount of time has a change in one’s health. The tests that researchers study will inform people about gaming and how it changes their health, but there will still be millions of people playing video games. There are many people who love to play and even play video games for a living, but there are many people who disagree with video games. Many of the people who disagree with video games are mainly parents who see their kids playing them, but there are more than just parents who do not like them. There are many other disagreements about video games that people think harm someone’s health and relationships. I think video games can be good for people and that they can even relieve stress to a point, but anyone playing video games needs to know when to take a break or stop playing.

The video game industry is a multibillion dollar a year industry, so it isn't hard to understand why they go through great strides to protect their image. They provide entertainment to all ages, genders, nationalities, and ethnicities. Contrary to the opinions of the industries opponents, video games are not destroying our youth, they challenge, educate, and provide an escape from an oppressive world.

Video games have been around for some time now and each year they are getting more and more realistic to the point that they are hurting children everywhere or causing children to hurt people around them. Many studies are being down everyday and scientist are finding that too much video games is causing kids to do poor in school which leads to bad grades and eventually dropping out all together. According the Health Central website that more and more kids each day might be happier in life due to video games, but when it comes to school they have negative feelings and negative aggression towards it (www.healthcentral.com). Violent video games are leading to attention problems and generally led to a greater decline in academic performance(www.healthcentral.com). Studies show that kids who have more than two hours of screen time end up having ADHD which is

Video games has been a very controversial topic for me in the past. I have always wandered are the children that play video games better than the children that do not? Are the children benefiting from them? They are using their hand-eye coordination while becoming part of a story. In the meantime, they could be missing out on other important things like create their own real games while socializing with others or spend more time with family and friends. How about all the violent themes I see when they play video games, and even the games that are rated for their age group are many times violent? How about addiction to video games and not getting enough physical activities and fresh air? If we do not let them play at home, they will be playing at their friends’ houses. These questions have been bothering me for a long time. Other times, I would find my teenage boys on the weekend safely being entertained with their virtual friends playing video games and even talking to them. I would feel thankful for the video games. I would not want them to be wandering out at night to meet friends or to be entertained. They are learning to read and follow stories. Then I would wonder what kind of life skills could videos give them in the real world? For one example, when I was their age, I was doing real gardening, and they are doing it on the computer. I even talked about it with other people that have children that play video games.