Is Games Good Or Not For Human Development?

In the world video games are mostly thought of by parents as having a negative impact on our brains, but actually, there could be life lessons involved in playing video games. There could be certain situations involved. There is a game called “Diner Dash”, which presents a certain situation within a restaurant in which a player has to manage many things at once. If a person ever wanted to go in the restaurant industry they could learn from this game with the pressures of taking orders, helping the diner’s needs and waiting tables. I feel this could be good for kids, and taking from Carr’s idea, they could adapt to the situation with their brains.

The increasing popularity of video games has raised some concern in society. The question as to whether or not this concern is justified has been raised a multitude of times. However, it is reasonable to believe that video games’ impact on society is not a negative one as there are many beneficial aspects to gaming, there is no solid proof of issue with video games, and they are enjoyable.

“Video games are bad for you, that’s what they said about rock-n-roll” (Shigeru Miyamoto). Video gaming is regarded as a ubiquitous part of children and adolescents’ life. Children who are daily involved in this activity in the US account for 97% of their total. Additionally, for those at an average of 8-13 years old, approximately, 8.5% of them are addicted to playing video games. Moreover, children at the age of 13-18 spend 16 hours per week playing. Video games are so prominent in this current world that we cannot prevent them from being involved entirely. While others believe that video games should not be made available to

The use of video games has become a norm for many people and families. They may be used to relax after a long day of work, or as a way for the family to all participate in something together. Many people view video games as just another form of entertainment, but could they actually be more?

Ever wondered why parents keep blaming games for every disaster among the young culture? Whether it is poor vision or bad grades in school, games have always been the valid excuse among conventional adults. However, is it truly a valid one or parents are just not recognizing any of the gaming benefits since it is invading their “convention?”

From the past till now, video game never loses its popularity, from Gameboy to Wii, and from NDS to LOL, millions and billions of people are obsessed with this imaginary world. Some of the video games are created for educational purpose, however, most are created for the people who wants to escape from reality. “In a national Harris Poll survey of 1,178 American youths (ages 8-18), ISU Assistant Professor of Psychology Douglas Gentile found nearly one in 10 of the gamers (8.5 percent) to be pathological players.” ("Figure 2f from: Irimia R, Gottschling M (2016) ") Not only the statistic shows the high rate of addiction towards video games, terrible consequences of the addictions are more than enough to be served. For example, an extreme case of an Chinese kid called Xioyi suicide because he lose in one of his game on December 27, 2004; where he left a note that said he wanted “to join the heroes of the game he worshiped.” Video game has the potential to ruin a person’s life, as well as their family, or even the

The researchers found that kids play games to cope with their emotions, to enjoy challenging situations, to keep up with peers playing similar games, to create their own worlds, and to relieve stress ( MassGeneral, 2012 ). A child may revel video games because it gets the child's mind off whatever is going on in his or her life situations. In addition, the child may be seeking a challenge from computerized gaming. When a child plays a challenging game it works various parts of their brain, and who doesn't like to overcome a challenging situation, while being ignorant to your own life experiences. Keeping up to date with your peers is an absolute must for a solemn gamer. In most cases, an online game player wants to rise to the top of the leaderboards. Found mostly in role-playing games, the child is permitted to create a world of his or her own. The player can create, demolish, or act the part of a character in the world they have created. Lastly, the child may be playing the game to relieve current stress that he or she has. While playing the game, stress can easily vanish for the child. Thereupon, Video games are mostly used to get the child's mind off stress or emotions, to allow the enjoyment of difficult positions, to keep updated on the leaderboards, or to allow role-play in the child's own made-up

Within western societies, games are often common place. The average person will play a game to relieve boredom, stress, or be a part of a community as many games require multiple people in order to play. There are even games specifically designed for learning or refining hand eye coordination. As the need for mental, and at times even emotion, stimulation grew so did the variety of games. Games range from those you can play by simply speaking to those that require electronic game systems that could cost hundreds of dollars.

Intense videogames can teach kids important life skills such as teamwork, in a new videogame called INSERT NAME HERE it is a zombie apocalypse game that requires a team to play and survive. David Hermann the creator of Zedtown said “You find yourself talking to people you wouldn’t otherwise spoken to and relying on those people for your life and you form intense relationships quickly”. This quote is powerful because it is showing how trusting get a built in a short amount of timeTwo people who know you probably would not have talk to or interacted with otherwise. This can help build people teamwork skills along with other social skills to broaden their friendships and make bonds with people who you probably would not have talk to or interacted with otherwise. This can help build people teamwork skills along with other social skills and broaden their friendships and make bonds with

Many young children and teenagers have heard their mother’s incessant plead to get away from the screen and to go outside or pick up a book for once instead. The urge to play “just one more level” before starting that homework or doing those chores can be quite distracting. But are video games really as awful as Mom exclaims or as brutal as those TV ads depict? It turns out that video games can have a strong impact on participants’ lives in both positive as well as negative ways.

The essay’s audience will be parents that are trying to decide whether or not their children should be allowed to play video games or parents that have already decided to not let their children play them. These parents may be under the belief that video games have only negative effects on their child’s cognitive, physical, and social states, or that the negative effects of playing video games outweigh the positive effects. This audience only needs a simple understanding of what video games are; they do not have to be knowledgeable as to the different genres of games or their titles etc. The parents also may be misinformed by the stereotypes that surround playing video games, such as that video games turn their child’s brain to mush, or that video games could make their child exhibit violent tendencies. These parents are expected to have children in or around the fourth-grade level, which would put them at around nine to ten years of age. This age group was chosen because at this age the child is undergoing a lot of psychological growth, and this development greatly affects what kind of person the child will be in the future.

Since the Early 70’s video games have been giving a bad name. Parents state that video games rot the minds of children and are influencing them do be violent. These accusations are far from the truth. In my research I found that there are many positive effects of gaming. Some of these effects are increased skills, creativity, general knowledge, and also help those in need. Parents can also take proper precautions and look into a game before buying it to see if it meets the criteria discussed in this paper.

All that is required is just skillfully managing the keyboard. Computer life is so exciting, that sometimes people are not concerned so much on events that occur in reality, as on what is happening in the virtual world. Where, by passing different levels and achieving any success, player feels how great and powerful he is. With each passing day, the video game industry progresses, giving us the better opportunity to fully enjoy the scene. The purpose of this essay is to prove that video games bring more harm than benefits to children. Firstly in this essay, negative effects will be considered, after that it will review benefits of video games, and finally give recommendations to parents, how not to allow games to negatively influence their children.

At the present technology almost is an important essential for a daily life. More technology to progress and more convenient for people. Of course, nothing comes easy then it is not only advantage of technology but also there are disadvantages and that people don’t think about it when they used it. When the technology has a progress and convenient it that make many people using more technology with their children about to learn or play games but there are some children who play a game more than necessary. Many children are like to play computer games because funny and relaxness. Now there are many games for children and several types such as an action game, adventure game or fighting game. Some game is a rather about violence, such as GTA GAME, MANHUNT or KILLER 7. Which parent should suggestion of these games. (Bigta, 2014) to describe about of each a day the children spend of time to play a computer game average about three and a half hours. Some

Nowadays Game is everywhere, mostly digital ones but not just them. In the modern days, Game has not the same additional disvalue, which had in the past centuries and playing is not considered as an unnecessary activity. In fact, many disciplines have used games in different manners in order to study players’ behaviors in a game’s environment. Nevertheless, game and playing have been around us throughout the history, “us” not as the civilized humans, but as the specie in the earth. For instance, Huizinga says: