The Negative Effects Of Violence In Video Games

Video games is like a fantasy world for children where they pretend to be someone else and have an escape on reality. As a mother i rather have my child play a video game as a stress free activity rather than finding a worse sorce of stress free activity. Now you might think what can a child be stressing about, well a child can be stressing over schooling or probably some family or social issues that they might not know how to handle. As a kid would play pretend now they can play prentend in a reality word where its more visual and interactive. Another quote "Games are a safe outlet to relieve stress and aggression" rather than going out there and solving their problem they go to a room and enter a fantasy world where there is no stress but

Video games have become very influential on children and adults (Stafford, 1999). With violent video games humans are more prone to act aggressively, to have aggressive thoughts and become numb towards violence (Harding, 2009). Apart from these they are

Video games are prevalent among impressionable children and teenagers. There has been a great deal of controversy surrounding the violent themes used in video games. Teenage shootings in schools have led society to question the relationship between video violence and criminal activity. After considerable research, expert opinions, and research findings, the American Psychological Association found that there is no link between gaming and criminal behavior (Casey). With this, the pursuit of video violent games continues to grow in our society. With games that show execution style murders, blood oozing from gunshot wounds, and victims moaning from wounds, it certainly is gratifying for the indulgent player. The ongoing concern about aggression and violence has once again been proven to be non-existent (Alert). My thoughts are that this cartoon like violence is appeals to the need for violence in an artificially designed environment. In this manner, violence is contained within the boundaries of fantasy. This is unlike “The Crucible” which occurs in with real people, events, and situations. Thus, directing violence in the realm of societal dysfunction that has endured with

Video games have become a major occupation of majority of the youth these days. They spend hours on end concentrating on video games, some of which are apparently very violent, yet this is actually the whole idea. Coming from the horse's mouth is an argument in support of video games coined from a video programmer's point of view, stating that violent video games allow people to do what they can not do in reality- virtual reality. ( http://www.theroc.org/roc-mag/textarch/roc-15/roc15-08.htm ) For instance, someone said to be having a bad day could use a violent video game to release stress by shooting down a couple hundred bad men than actually taking an AK-47 and spilling down a few brains down the

Over 90% of children around the world play video games, and over 90% of those are violent. This staggering amount of simulated violence has initiated devastation to everyone. Parents of all origins try to protect their kids from cruelty, but in the process of buying them pugnacious video games, they are pursuing the opposite effect. Simulated brutality in games are precarious because the history of gaming is tied to violence, it is treating killing as banter, and it surges bullying and aggression among players.

As technology as progressed, more people, especially youth, take part in playing video games. There has been an steady increase of video game usage because of the fact that video games have become more life-like and realistic. While they have become more realistic in aesthetic ways, they have also become more violent in content as well. Games like Call of Duty

Violence in video games, more specifically where the whole violent video game controversy came up, was a game called Death Race. This game had you running over gremlins but ended looking like “looked a lot like humans, since all that could be rendered was a blocky stick figure” (Luke Plunkett, Death Race, the World's First Scandalous Video Game, Kotaku). Death Race got a spot on 60 Minutes “looking at the psychological impacts” (Luke Plunkett, Death Race, the World's First Scandalous Video Game, Kotaku) of the game, was protested and was covered by National Enquirer and the NBC's Weekend Show and even “The National Safety Council said Death

According to the online website ”Raise A Smart Kid,” it states,”Most of the bad effects of video games are blamed on the violence they contain. Children who play more violent video games are more likely to have increased aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and decreased prosocial helping, according to a scientific study (Anderson & Bushman, 2001).” Another site also states, “Playing violent video games causes more aggression, bullying, and fighting in teens.”-videogames.procon.org/. Not only does it increase unacceptable behaviors, but it also enlarges the chance for adolescents to have anxiety. Although it is safer to play gory and dangerous video games when you are older, you are still eligible to feel the effects and the influence of

From the late 1970s until the present day, the video game industry has been growing in popularity and profit at an amazing rate, with profits exceeding $10 billion in 1999 (Senate Commitee on the Judiciary, 1999). As time has progressed, the content of these games has become more and more realistic, and the violence in them has become more realistic. Concerns about this violence, from the relatively tame Pac-Man of the early 1980s to the near photo-realistic bestsellers of today, have been around since video games first enter the public consciousness. Video game violence appears in nearly all genres of game, from fantasy, to action, to sports and children of both genders have indicated a preference for video games containing violent content (Funk J. , 1993).

When shooting games first came on the scene, a pixel person looked more like a Lego than a human. There was no blood, guts, or any real depiction of the violence. But this is not the case anymore. Many video games could almost be confused for real life movies. The blood, gore, and killing is much more real and creates a lot less imagination to conjure. “But new psychological studies are finding that as violent games become more realistic, constantly playing them can lead to a desensitization toward real violence” (Bilton). Some would argue that the realistic graphics of the games sold don’t really matter because the actual number of people who commit violent acts is so far and few in-between. “Of those millions of players, few commit an act of violence, certainly not enough to say that statistically, video games is a principle cause- or even a significant cause- if the real world violent behavior” (Bezio). But its shouldn’t matter have frequent or how much damage is done, all that matters is that it is being done and innocent lives are being lost for reasons that could very well be

For this purpose of this study violent video games will be anything that allows the users to experience violence through the use of guns, the use of weapons/objects that are used to injury/murder characters in that game, the display of blood and/or dismembering, physical combat in which the only way to win is to injury/eliminate opponents.

Games are becoming more advanced and realistic every year, however, the violence in them are becoming more of a concern to parents because of the increasingly frequent emphasis on killing opponents in graphically gruesome ways. As time goes by games get more and more realistic and more violent. Parents think that today gaming just have killing and bad language. Children should be able to play video games cause its not just a negative effect on young people but positive to.

So, among the negative effects people claim violent video games have on their users, there are always the causes that give drive to the impulse to play and enjoyment video games of this genre. Whether you enjoy them for the entertainment or simply for the blood-spilling theme, the games seem to give off and satisfy a sense of desire in the people who play

Aimee Tompkins (2003) claims that children are being affected by everything what they see around them in the youth, and people, who see violence in the youth, always tend to be more hostile and less responsive to images of violence. That 's why parents try to border children from any possible negative influences. But they often do not even realize that by buying to child a game console, they put them into the risk. Since most video games contain violent character. According to statistics given by the ‘Children now’ organization (2001), 89% of the top-selling video games have violent character and serious violence is contained in half of them.

“Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end” (“Video Game Quotes” 1). Over time researchers, psychiatrists, and parents have often wondered how damaging violent video games can be to the youth in society. This is an important matter to people with children in their personal lives or work environment. These games have become a large risk factor for aggressive behavior in children. Researchers have been saying that video games do affect adults as well; however, they have even more effect on younger brains in early development. Video games have negative effects on childrens’ behavior. Some effects that video games have are reduced academic performance, aggression, obesity, and emotional disorder.