The Negative Effects Of Violent Video Game Effects

The paper discusses how violent video games affect a person's behavior and if they manifest violence and show aggression in the real world after playing such video games. I learned that not all people who are exposed to video game or media violence turn violent. I think it depends on the person if he wants to get influenced from the game, to mimic what the game shows. This is just like the next source, discussing about what kind of behavioural problems violent gaming brings about.

Over the past few centuries,video games have become a great leisure and hobby among kids of all ages and cultures. With the advancement of technology, video games have advanced highly in its realism and genres. This high type of advancement brought the video game industry to a multi-billion dollar industry. However, with realism, comes negative effects as well. Ever since the creation of violent or “mature” video games, there has been a constant debate on whether it will increase violence in the player. Although, not all video games are violent, and just increase skills in a player such as hand-eye coordination. Nevertheless, there is research going on for the link between violent video games and youth violence. The question is which event happens first in the sequence, do violent video games aggravate a person’s violent behavior, or does a person get rid of their anger through playing violent video games? Either way, violent video games are not beneficial to our society.

Moreover, many kids deal with violence and can’t control it. As a result of having issues with violence some people play video games to let their violence and anger out. People need to understand that “ [b]ut overall, violent crime is down in the US-indeed, as violent games have become more popular, violent crime has fallen." (Erik Kain 1) The more popular the game is studies show violent

One of the big issues that is growing in todays’ society is Violent video games effect negatively on youngsters. This issue is growing because many of these games are featured aggressive elements that lead youngsters towards violence. For most players, video games are fun but also violent games take over the lives of some player. Since the world of video games was started in the 1980s, the video games still getting new level of popularity in this world. Most people are getting really addictive of these violent video games. The first important reason why violent video games are dangerous for children is that they spend their most time on playing video games and don’t pay attention in real world. After a while they start to live in fantasy world. The second reason is violent video games caused mental disturbance in children. Because children spent their most of the time on playing video games, they are most likely to skip school and have poor grades. The most important reason is that violent video games can effect on children’s behavior. These games leads towards aggressive behavior that can be dangerous for others.

A video game is “an electronic game in which players control images on a television or computer screen” (Merriam-Webster). Video games have been entertaining and challenging gamers since the Game Boy to modern console games. Despite the simplicity of the definition of video games, a video game, especially ones containing violence can have a large effect on the gamer. Because of the realism and advancements in the video game industry, video games can influence the player, and can make the gamer more aggressive, even if the game is not a violent video game. Even though video games have grown in popularity over the past decade, some have not been too popular with parents, for the reason that they are too violent. Violent video games affect

Today, you are most likely to see that the first item on a child's christmas list is any video console with violent video games included. For the most part, nobody actually pays attention to the harm they could be exposing their young kids to or maybe they do not notice until it is too late. Its irrational to think that a violent video game would not be able to psychologically and silently affect the mind of a young kid, as it is also causing the kid joy at the same time. But this irrational idea can be proven wrong through research about the effect that violent video games cause on young kids. This effect, that the research mentions, can negatively impact their lives at a young age. Research from different association state that violent games can increase the rate of kids fighting among their communities up to actually committing real crimes. Violent video games also affect the children's emotion toward certain topics such about crimes, fighting, and mass shootings. In certain, video games that portray women getting sexually or physically abuse, can also lead to them doing this certain actions as they grow older. The young kids start to lower their empathy and kindness toward family members, friends, and any person they interact with. Yes, every situation is different, but young children are still exposed to the danger that violent video games have, and their effect on the kids mind. Even though it all depends on the person and how deep they take the video games, but this

Violent video games have been around a long time. The problem with video games came from a video game in 1976 called Death Race where gremlins were getting ran over with a car and then they turned into tombstones. It was also a problem because some seemed to believe that the gremlins resembled stick-figure humans. Some people argue that violent video games has caused violence towards women, increased bullying, and even school shootings. Critics even argue that these video games make players violent, reward them for the violence, and teach our young that violence is a satisfactory way to handle our conflicts. There are a few video games that I’m familiar with that made the top twenty-five of all time, Battlefield, Mad Max, Mortal Combat, The Call of Duty Series, the Grand Theft Auto Series, and more. The list gets longer and longer but I just added the most popular ones.

With the popularity of video games growing there has been both instability and prosperity from children playing more violent games. There are beliefs that the newer more lifelike violent games are harmful to children. The beliefs have grown so much so that California Law went before the U.S. supreme court to determine the controversy. The importance of this matter is that these video games could cause the adolescents to have an increase in violence. Studies that were taken to act as evidence toward video games being harmful or harmless were focused on neuroscience research. This is an aspect of Psychology that deals with the functions of the brain. The way the brain functions is affected by many factors, a major argument is playing violent video games has harmful influence on the brain?

Violent contents within video games have become rampant especially amongst adolescents. At the same time, with the growing number of users being exposed to these games, it becomes crucial to research the potential threats which emerge from playing these games. What many may not realize is that research does assert how the violent contents within video games may lead to aggression, possibly from arousal and being desensitized to real violence. Whilst other researchers argue that the relationship between violent video games and desensitization to real violence is not causal and how other factors such as family violence, one’s development and genetic tendencies and one’s perception of violence may lead to one committing aggression or violence. This paper discusses such claims and analyzes both sides of the spectrum to see if this relationship is causal or external factors may be involved.

In the United States, more than ninety percent of all children ages twelve through seventeen play video games, and two thirds of which contain violence. Some people believe that violent video games have no effect on the consumers that play them, and others argue the opposite. It is proven that violent video games have negative effects on society, and can cause aggressive behavior.

The promotion of violence by today’s media, especially video games, has caused violence and aggression in reality to become a major concern. As gaming graphics and special effects are becoming more realistic, this portrayal of violence is one of the many important concerns in society. These days, a person can pick up a controller, move a joystick around, press a few buttons, and totally devastate an entire city. The recent uproar about this kind of entertainment is based on the debate of whether or not violence is affecting children who spend countless hours playing violent video games. Some people claim that the violence in the media has influenced horrible acts, such as many

Violence in gaming can spark interest in humans ' minds today. Lately around the world, there has been an increase in violence, and one reason seems to be the result of playing video games. Many children, teenagers, and even grown adults are stuck indoors staring at a screen for hours; this lifestyle can become unhealthy. Video games embed violent inclinations and mental pictures into players ' heads, which takes a toll on their physical activity.

“Recent contents analyses of video games show that many as 89% of games contain some violent contents” (Gentile, Lynch, Linder, Walsh 3). More than half of video games being sold around the world contain some form of violence. All of the violence involved in the video games being played by children is a pattern leading to aggression. Aggression can be caused by many things; however, violent video games are the main cause of aggression in young adults. “If a child began playing violent video games at a young age, then he might think that violence in real life is the same as the game violence and that it doesn’t have a real impact on others” (Gilad, Alto 1). Thinking that violence in the virtual world is the same as in the real world is the first step to showing aggression. Aggression in children caused by video games is the biggest effect parents and researchers worry about. Violent video games teach children that shooting and killing people are

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.

Think about it. Does violence in violent video games or role-playing games increase violence and aggression in the real world? Undoubtedly, violent role-playing games nowadays are more intense than ever. These role-playing games with simulated violence are perilous for the kids. Surprisingly, In a simulated role-playing game called “Killer”, students play by shooting each other with water guns to win money. Author Guy Martin write “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out” and tells us about this vehement game. Games like Killer and other violent video games encourage violence. Not only do they encourage violence, but they can actually harm the individual playing and distract teens from more important things like school. Video games can be an opposing factor for many reasons.