The Topic

I can remember playing video games at a very young age. I was about four or five years old when my parents purchased a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). I can’t quite remember how long I used to play per day but I know it escalated since then. All of my friends used to play video games as well which most likely attributed to me playing even more. I never really thought about it back then but about two to three years ago I started thinking: How many hours a day am I playing? How is this affecting me? I wasn’t just playing one genre of video game so I thought it couldn’t be all bad. I noticed I was more analytical and that I could do math in my head pretty well, so were those traits partly due to playing video games? There have been thousands of studies on the effects of video games on young children and teenagers but the vast majority of them have been on violent video games. I want to look at the effects of video games of different genres on people. Puzzle games, adventure games, role playing games and online games are all very different from each other so in turn there should be different consequences from playing them. I have looked at different sources that say not all affects are adverse. I think it is useful for everyone to look deeper into the studies behind video games not only to prevent their future children from exposure but to expose them to the right kind of games; and of course not to overexpose them.