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VIDEO GAME

Video Games have been part of our lives for decades. Most of which go as far back in the late 50's to early 60's. In todays generation and day and age, video games have gained a lot of popularity. They have grasped the attention of almost every human that can lay their hands on a controller. With video Gomes growing in popularity, it is no exception that video games have made people get addicted to playing them almost everyday. As much as video games may seem rather harmless, people don't think twice of what effects video games can lead to. EFFECTS

As technology grows, video games get better and the player base that it normally has, grows exponentially. Video games have an impact all over the world. The player base for video games extends everywhere and rapidly. As great as this may seem, video games have a bigger impact than most people might think. Other's may argue that video games can be beneficial and lead to many great skills. Although this may be true, video games can in fact affect us in a negative way. This argument all comes down to what type of video games people end up playing. The games that tend to have a high pick rate, will usually end up being violent and action based games. For example, most games that end up being played the most now are usually FPS games such as Call of Duty, Apex legends, and third person shooter named Fortnite to name a few. Studies have shown that, playing these types of games "fuel violence, and shrink attention span." Video games can effect the minds mentally. They have shown that once playing Video games (obviously one that is violent), can make you have an aggressive behavior in the long run. This effects young adults to kids that shouldn't even be allowed to play these violent action packed games. Video games have expanded to reach the minds of kids at the ages of 8+. These same kids later develop an aggressive behavior themselves to being exposed to these type of games at such an early age. People need to know when it should be appropriate to give young kids these games. Most parents buy the games without thinking twice about the effects and let their kids play and develop a different behavior.

BENEFICIAL USES

Video Games is. controversial topic. Many people have and are entitled to their own opinions about video games. As much as people try to squash and make video games look bad, people have some good points into why they are beneficial. Whatever game you can think of, genre, etc, the grand majority of video games can help a long way both mentally, and physically. Video games have one as far as to help people in the professional surgical field. it has been shown that, some studies are able to increase surgical performance among physicians. Some evidence suggests that violent games may foster the ability in players to ignore or suppress distracting information in order to enhance attention and visuospatial processing. Not only that, but studies have shown that video games can help with reflexes as well and muscle memory.Every game can have a beneficial effect on anyone, it just comes down to how the person can handle games itself and how the person playing it is mentally as well.