Video Games Effects

Video games are one of the most common tools used for entertainment today amongst children. According to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the estimated percentage of players in the United State of America (USA) is 59 and approximately 29 percent of the players are under 18 years old. Throughout the years, video games have developed and became easier to work with and to access. The increasing number of video games and the availability of video games everywhere make parents worried about the effects of video games on their children since they constitute the highest percentage of usage among different age groups. The negative effects are the only impacts that people state when referring to video games which shows how video games have

The negative effect of video games is that they alter certain regions of the brain. According to a research mentioned by Alice Park, a recent study explored how video games alter the brain functioning among young adult. In the study, 28 students participated, and they were told to play either a violent video game or a non-violent game every day for a whole week. To explore the effects of video games on the young adults’ brains, researchers used functional MRI to scan their brains while the children were busy trying to complete the objectives in the lab that were related to emotional and non-emotional tasks. Researchers found out that those participants who played violent video games illustrated less activity in the regions of the brain that were associated with emotions and attention. Other tests conducted by the experiment include how children face violent and non-violent words. According to the research, “participants were presented with violent words such as hit, harm and kill and non-violent words like run, walk and talk”. (Park, 2011, pg. 1) After the test was completed, researchers noticed that young adults who played non- violent video games reacted more emotionally after facing violent words. Such a study shows how video games can affect a child’s brain by playing every

When we play video games like shooting games, we always try to find the target. Once we become used to the game and find our feet, we can find the target as quick as possible. According to Prot et al. (2012), correlational studies found positive effects between playing video games and visual objectives such as finding the location of the target and these effects have some beneficial practical application. One of these applications is that when we play car games such as Midnight Club, it enhances the driving skills of the gamers through teachings about following the signs, and knowing about different parts of the car. Other than that, when playing Midnight Club, gamers can create their own car and design it. Gamers can be creative when designing their own cars with their favorite colors and stickers. Such illusions in such games helps the gamers to be creative and learn how to do things just by using a