The Causes Of Violent Video Games

In this age of technology, it's very safe to say that a large majority of the world's population has played at least one video game. This can vary from playing games on console, like Xbox-One, Playstation 4, and for the older generation, the NES to playing mobile games like Tetris. There are many consoles that span from the creation of video games. This has opened opportunities to make several kind of games. These can vary from side-scrollers like Super Mario Bros. on the NES, to Role-playing games (RPG) like Final Fantasy IX on the Playstation 1. While this has caused some great games to surface, it has also allowed intense violence to be let into games. Parents and anti-gaming communities state that this is why kids can become violent. This is false, because violent games can be avoided to prevent this issue, and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has even made various precautions to make sure parents know what they're purchasing. Comprehensible symbols, detailed lists, and age restrictions prevents children from "becoming violent".

First of all, playing video games puts violence into the minds of the players and the players begin to get used to the terrorism in these electronic games. If this continues, adolescents may begin to think that online killing is okay which could eventually lead to violence in the real worlds being ok. And its possible that they could act rashly and hurt others by all the exposure to videogames. In the article “shooting in the dark” by benedict Carrie, the text says, “It was as if that exposure to computerized violence gave them an idea to go on a rampage- or at least fuel their urges.” (1) By playing violent video games, you are receiving these violent things into your mind that may be potentially dangerous to you and the people around you.

Violent games are often played by kids, and kids are the main group of people who have desire to win. So, this mentality causes them get more and more angry, which may directly led to crimes. It is easy to have a casual effect after losing a game. That could makes people want to play another round, until they addicted into games. Children are still growing, and they start another game because they lose the last game, and this cycle will make the children more addictive. If games play more, they will feel immersive, it will give people a fake impression, and will affect the children 's growth. Also it influencing people’s time, this may cause children have less time to feel our planet, the outside world. Some of them are limited by violent video games, because they already addicted by those games. Secondly, violent behavior in reality is often caused by violent video games. People who likes to play violent video games are easy to get confused about reality and virtual. People are very focus when they play games, games could let people feels they are the character in the game. It could make people get angry, and once they finished their game, back to reality, they also may still think about the game, and want to have a chance to experience it, whether the result is as same as the game or not, and this could lead them to have a strong violent behavior in reality. Violent video games may change

When films were first created, they were not always treated as the art form that they're known as today. They were treated as inferior to classic art forms like paintings and music. However, with time films have began to be respected as art and with that, many people analyzre the various ways they effect people. In a mirror image, video games have only been around since the early 1980's having many people believe the same thing that they did when films were first created. What follows is an analysis of how video games affect the end-user i.e. Gamer physically, mentally, socially, emotionally, and culturally.

By their nature, video games require the participant to actively engage in the game. This can become very dangerous when playing violent video games. It is inevitable that children develop according to their surroundings and when a child is playing as a character in a violent video game, it is common for them to begin to act as if they are their character. “A 2004 study by Gentile, Lynch, Linder & Walsh found that teens who play violent video games for extended periods of time tend to be more aggressive, are more prone to confrontation with their parents and may engage in fights with their peers” (Palo Alto Medical Foundation, 2015). Not only can violence in video games cause a change in adolescent's mental state but they can also lead to negative changes in their actions and violent actions within the games are rewarded. When a child commits an action of violence within the game they are playing they are rewarded with points or some other type of reward. At young ages, children begin learning what is socially acceptable and what is not and if their learning process is interrupted by violent video games they will learn that violence is acceptable and will be rewarded. The rapid increase in the production of violent video games may ultimately lead to a world of aggression and violence.

The video game industry has become a huge market in today’s society. It has been a fast-growing industry since it started. Today, many video games are directed towards youth. There have been several video games that have been released that are known to demonstrate violent behaviour. A concern that has developed is the possible connection between violent video games causing violent behaviour in young people. Many children and teens spend excessive amounts of time playing aggressive video games. Studies have shown the connection that both proves and declines the correlation between violent video games and violent behaviour. Some studies even show the benefits of playing these kinds of video games. The attitude “gamers” have towards video game research has also been a discussed topic.

Not only that, losing in a game invokes the feeling of frustration as well. Similarly, these feelings are often seen in the real world. For example, football watchers often exhibit frustration when their favorite team loses a match against a formidable foe. In few cases, this leads to destroying objects around the house to release the anger that comes from defeat. Similarly, video game players experience frustration such as playing games such as Golf with Friends and fails to perform a hole in one. Thus, this leads to aggressive behavior such as exhibiting profanity. Although unlike football, video games receive backlash from media that they cause violent behavior. Although, Paul Tassi argues that video causes aggressiveness; however, he claims that it comes mostly from the fact that players tend to become frustrated due to losing rather than the content of the game (4). Therefore, the experience of losing causes aggressive behavior rather than the game itself. For example, players can express aggravation when they encounter games like Mario, where they miss to land a jump and fall to their death which results in starting all over from the beginning. Although, some may argue that the frustration creates violent behavior. Although it may be true to a certain degree, this does not mean that everyone will become violent simply from being frustrated. In fact, it mostly depends on the person's tolerances of experiences of failure or lack of mastery. Overall, video games are not

First of all, violent video games give people a lot of bad character, many researchers have experimentally found that people playing the violent game will become more aggressive than before. For example, according to Bartholow(2001), “ They also found (Study 2) that participants who played Wolfenstein 3D (a violent game where the player “walks” through a castle, armed with various weapons, and attempts to kill people) in the lab behaved more aggressively than participants who played nonviolent game” (p.284). What do those investigations tell us? The point is people who played nonviolent games are not as aggressive as people who played violent games. People enjoying the satisfied of doing crazy things in the violent games which are a kind of unsatisfied with their reality. In this way, violent games is a bridge that turns people into aggressive, extreme. Furthermore, violent games also make the players become irritable. For instance, these

Video games as a media have been around since the 1970s. According to Dai and Fry (2014), the video game industry is rapidly growing and went from having a market volume of $100 million in 1985 to $4 billion in 1990. In 2013, the worldwide market was totaled to be $93 billion. Exposure to violent video games, like exposure to violent television, can lead to aggressive behavior (Pellisier, 2016). There are different types of video games, from educational video games to aggressive blood pumping games, but to date violent video games still rank number one in the category. Children are likely responding more aggressively to normal stimuli after being exposed to aggressive or violent video games.

The violent video game controversy has been an issue since the 1970s, so it is time for a solution to be found. An arcade game that was developed was played by the player running over stick figures with a car. These stick figures were supposed to represent gremlins and not people, so protestors took the arcade game out into the parking lot to burn it. A website clarifies, “The debate over violent video games can be traced back to the 1976 release of the game Death Race” (ProCon.org). The effects of video games on children is a debate regarding the mentality of children as they play these games. A mother buys a video game for her son that has been begging for days. She walks in without bothering to look at the rating. Although on the case the game is rated “M” for mature audiences. The boy plays for hours on end as soon as he gets the game. Every day for the next week he sits and plays the game. He is immersed in the game, shooting enemies on the battlefield. He begins behaving aggressively at school towards his classmates. His mother wonders why, but it finally clicks that this did not happen until after the video game. She needs to find a solution and fast before this starts getting out of hand. The solution that makes the most sense is for children to be moderated as they play violent video games by their parents.

Games are made to be interactive and enjoyed by consumers. People of all ages played games to relax and think about something besides work. Games were made so that people can have fun and not have to take anything personal or seriously. The controversy all started when a game called Death Race was introduced in 1976. It was a game where the players drove cars and ran over monsters called Gremlins. These monsters would pop up a tombstone after their deaths. At the time, games like these were controversial because there have never been a game about killing or murdering anything that’s fictional or nonfictional. Due to the situation of players and parents complaining, the creators of the game had to take down the games from store shelves.

“...players can also be hunting for mutations that cause cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, or diabetes”(Mohammadi). Most people think that violent video games and video games in general serve no beneficial purposes. That is not necessarily true because violent video games can help solve problems and be contributive to society, distract those who are prone to violence, also violent crimes and actions are not influenced by violent video games.

Video games can lead to aggression, addiction, and bad behavior. Spending too much time playing video games can provoke teens to act in a violent manner. Teens can learn to act in an aggressive manner in our society when killing a large number of enemies in certain video games. Brutal killings in these games tend to train the mind of teens to become violent. “A study found that 66 percent of researchers, 67 percent of parents and 90 percent of pediatricians agree or strongly agree that violent video games can increase aggressive behavior among children.” (Work Cited #2). Those are pretty high numbers and they’re all correct. For example, when kids have an opportunity to shoot someone with a gun, or slash someone with a blade, they’ll do it for the benefit to win the game. Doing this can have a violent affect for them in the real world as well. All the

David G. Myers mentioned that the cause of violent video game became an issue for public debate after teenagers in more than a dozen places seemed mimic the carnage in the shooter games they had so often played (Anderson, 2004, 2013). Based on the studies done for violent video games correspond with individuals having violent acts. On the journal article “An update on the effects of playing violent video games," Craig A. Anderson stated that violence video games first emerged with school shootings by avid players of such games which is in contrast to the Meyer’s Social Psychology article that a didn’t mention the connection or the issue with school shooting. Anderson took a more critical and specific approach in his research by mentioning the effects towards school shootings.

Video games have always been a popular source of entertainment for people of all ages that are available on many electronic devices and offer various genres. Video games were first introduced in the 1970s with simple graphic that contains only black and white images together with minimal sounds. Later on, video games have developed and come at age which are violent video games, and researchers started to find out whether there were any connection between violent video games and real-life antisocial behavior. As a result, it turned out that playing violent video games can increase players’ aggression levels, and violent video games have also become the cause behind mass shootings or other crimes because many perpetrators play violent video