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    who play video games typically feel. Video games are an interesting topic as they have captivated practically every single child as a result of the digital age that we live in. For some time now, the reasons why video games are being played so frequently, are obvious. The big question that parents have surrounding video games, is whether they will help or hinder their children who play them. This a concern, especially for parents whose children have become obsessed with playing video games. Consequently

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    Video Games Research Paper

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    Video Games I. The Video or Computer Game Industry The now multi-billion dollar video game industry starting slowly. In 1972, Atari developed Pong, a simple tennis-like game played on the television screen. Pongwas followed by Space Invadersin 1978 (Griffiths 223). Since then, thousands of games are available over the Internet, on CDROM for personal computers, hand-held units, and television console units like Playstation, Nintento, and Sega. Further, the market has developed beyond

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    12/5/17 Video Games aren’t so bad after all Have you ever wondered why people enjoy playing video games? Players often find video games to be fun and exciting. But there’s a downside. Many adults assume that video games are harmful to the player, but that’s not necessarily true. Most people don’t understand that playing video games also comes with many benefits. We need to change how the world targets video games as always being “harmful”. Although, many people think video games are harmful, video games

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    Rafiq Stanton 11/16/2017 Composition I Video Games Can Educate Video Games can educate the youth and change their young minds. Some of the first video games ever made like Pac Man, Mario Bros.,Sonic the Hedgehog and Street Fighter never helped someone learn math and english which caused video games to get bad names from parents like video games are to distracting and you can do something better with your time like study but, over time things can change and become a whole lot better and based off

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    Violent Video Games

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    Video games have been widely popular in the last decade. Although these games are very entertaining, the contents in these games have become much more disturbing and violent as technology has advanced. The wide popularity for these violent video games have created controversy, with parents and psychologists demanding the government to regulate the sales of these games due to the fear of abuse and shootings. However, violent video games will not lead to violence, and should be encouraged rather than

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    Video games have always been the subject of some type of controversy. Debates exist over whether or not playing them for too long is detrimental to your health, or if they have any positive aspects at all. Research indicates that gaming for long periods of time is not healthy, whereas light or occasional gaming yields benefits to reactions and skills when working under pressure. However, one aspect of video games always rears its head whenever some empathy-depraved soul commits an atrocity upon innocent

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    Video games have a real sense of irony, and this is why we need to increase and expand the number of video games being played for the future of our planet. So the real question here is why are we wanting to expand video games globally. For the sake of video games and video gamers, they come all over the world to play these magnificent games. Do they better our lives? Or do they do real damage to us for our society's culture? To answer the real question, let's say it did go globally for our culture

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    Almost everyone has played a video game at least once in their life. The people who play them on a normal basis though, probably only spend an hour or two doing so per day. However, there are people who are affected by video game addiction and do not know it. The DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) does not even consider video game addiction to be a real problem. But, video game addiction is, in fact, a real phenomenon and it is a direct cause of health and social problems

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    Violent Video Games

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    Video Games have been a source of fun and enjoyment for many people, whether they are kids or adults. Violent video games are the most popular types of video games. Many young people who play video games or gamers, for short, are quite obsessed with these games. Recently violent video games (VVGs) have been accused of being the source of many mass shootings in the world, accused of corrupting the minds of young gamers. This is wrong. Violent Behavior in Video Games Video games are always thought

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    Issue: Video games are the primary source of entertainment for children nowadays. Be it in form of Wii Games, Nintendo or Xbox; children nowadays seems to be practically smitten with video games. It was also shown as evidence in some cases that the influence of such games is so huge that few children start speaking and acting like characters in the video games. Many video games, dating back to 1976’s Death Race, contain some or other aspect of violence, such as killing the bad person, driving dangerous

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