Video Game Addiction Essay

When people are disputing regarding addictions, those addictions are often related to drugs, but what exactly are addictions? When a drug user can't stop taking a drug even if he wants to, it's called addiction. The urge is too strong to control, even if you know the drug is bad for your health. But addictions aren’t always related to drugs. There are new types of addictions that are doing a lot of harm to the public, such as phone addiction, tobacco addiction, even video game addiction. Addictions are everywhere. Even you might have one, but it might not be that obvious. Video game addiction does exist, and even though not many people paid attention to it, it is causing more trouble than you can imagine. One of the biggest problems of video games is violence. In order to play and win, the player has to be the aggressor. Before when video games aren't common, sometimes you can see violence in the television, but now, rather than watching it, you are committing the violence. Another major problem concerns the researchers and parent is that violence in these games is often

Although some parents care about their children even when they play video games, on Friday 5 March 2010, a Korean couple became obsessed with raising virtual baby while their real daughter lay abandoned and unfed. The South Korean police said the couple had become obsessed with raising a virtual girl called Anima in the popular role-playing game Prius Online. This shows that video can make a person forget and abandon reality, while hung up on the virtual world (Newsweek.com). Another case is a 22-year-old Korean man murdered his mother because she nagged him for spending too much time playing games. After killing her the man went to a nearby internet cafe and continued with his game. This proves that video games can make a person violent and commit crime, which is exactly like