Are video games dangerous...

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Are video games dangerous?...

• By Jack ,Tom, Tom F, Oscar George

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The case

• Everyday people are playing violent games such
  as

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DEAD RISING

• Includes fear, bad language, violence.
• Age18
• Info Basically survive killing zombies by using
  violence.

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Call of duty 4modern warfare

• Includes Violence, bad language.
• Age 16
• Info Technically its tactics and killing people
  on different battlefields for every mission.

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GTA 4

• Includes Violence, bad language, nudity,
  discrimination drugs.
• Age 18
• Info the 2nd best selling game and 4th in the
  charts, it is based on the life of a rough
  gangster on all the series.

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Safety first

• Here are a few games which arent too devastating

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FIFA 08

• Includes Nothing bad at all.
• Age 3
• This game has no violence except slide tackles
  this game is safe for all ages.

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Spore

• Includes Violence
• Age 12
• Info Spore is a game were you have to create
  your own monsters and world

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Wii fit

• Includes no violence nothing.
• Age 3
• Info this is great fun for all the family, plus
  you unlock new games, yoga poses muscle
  workouts the better you do.

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The consequences

• If we carry on this extreme gaming it will lead
  us in to catastrophic events. If you dont
  believe me just read the next couple of slides

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The slides of truth

• One of the most common medical problems connected
  typically to playing video games is crooked
  posture, which appears as a result of the
  irregular sitting position in front of a monitor
  or TV screen. There is a huge percent of children
  in Junior High and High Schools who have a
  crooked posture, and practically all of them
  frequently play video-games. Children also
  frequently complain about the pain in their
  hands, induced by hours of playing video-games
  each day. Constant repetition of same moves can
  in time induce damage to joints, and skin
  irritation. A boy recently ended up in hospital
  thanks to the fact that he used his
  force-feedback controller seven hours a day,
  which severely damaged his wrists, knuckles and
  hand nerves. Some games also used to provoke
  epilepsy. Apart from this, one of the possible
  problems that can arise due to intensive staring
  into the screen is sight deterioration. Hours of
  watching the monitor (mainly in darkened rooms)
  which displays rapidly changing pictures can
  impair sight, and if the player already had a
  weakened sight, it can only make the situation
  worse. This mainly goes for games which take
  place in dark surroundings (which is most games
  for that matter). All these problems only appear
  after intense playing meaning that reasonable
  playing with breaks cannot be harmful. In the
  last ten years, the number of hours a child
  spends playing video games per week increased
  from 2.8 to 4.3. Many children spend far more
  time trapped in virtual worlds than ever before.

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• These physical problems can easily be made up
  for, but the mental problems are there to stay.
  Parents and psychologists all agree that the
  worst problem about video games is violence.
  Violence has been present in computer
  entertainment ever since its start, and today,
  well, you can hardly imagine a game without it.
  It is a sad truth that violence became a part of
  our daily lives, from maltreatment in the family,
  to the wars all around the world but is its
  presence so necessary in video games and how
  harmful is it?

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• Why should violence in computer games be more
  dangerous than the violence that can be seen on
  the TV? Because video-games go both ways - they
  are interactive and cast the player in the
  virtual world they make the player identify
  himself with the main character whose actions
  have an influence on the plot. One of the
  greatest problems here is that murder and
  violence performed by the hero of the game are
  practically never punished, and often even
  rewarded. This creates a feeling in children that
  violence is right, and kids simply adopt violent
  behaviour because they see nothing wrong about
  it. The interactive element of the
  point-and-shoot video games lets children
  practice their shooting skills, which eventually
  become reflexes. Scientific research proved that
  children who played violent games tend to be more
  aggressive than the children who didn't. This, in
  combination with a number of various sociological
  factors connected to the child's upbringing can
  produce good conditions for developing an
  extremely violent psyche.

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• Everybody probably remembers the massacre that
  took place in 1999 in the Columbine High School,
  Colorado when two pupils murdered twelve of their
  friends and teachers before committing suicide.
  Investigation proved that the two of them were
  big Doom fans and that they used to play this
  game every day. You cannot claim that the game
  directly induced this (as many other kids had
  been playing it without killing their friends and
  teachers), but it certainly had some influence.
  In the Paducah case, a fourteen year-old boy
  killed three and wounded five pupils in his
  school. He turned out to be an avid Doom, Quake
  and Mortal Combat player. The most interesting
  thing about this case is the accuracy with which
  the boy shot his victims - each victim received
  one bullet, and before this, he never even used a
  gun. He obviously had a natural talent for using
  firearms and a lot of practice in video-games .
  In the latest case of multiple homicides in
  Erfurt, Germany, a boy killed eighteen people in
  the school from which he was expelled. The boy
  also turned out to be a player of violent
  video-games. Are those games the main reason he
  did this? Probably not (in this specific case the
  boy was no stranger to domestic violence and
  maltreatment), but there still is a possibility
  that these games made him feel that he can do
  whatever he wants, and get away with it, which
  was simply triggered by the stressful situation
  when he got expelled. Though this doesn't prove
  anything, as most of us can tell a difference
  between fiction and reality, it is possible that
  persons with a potential for mental disorders can
  be pushed over the edge by erroneous conclusions
  suggested by the general concept of violent video
  games

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So how do we stop the violence?

• ESRB classifies games into categories depending
  on their contents in order to prevent kids of a
  certain age to play games of inadequate contents
  (violence, foul language, nudity, etc), but this
  is certainly not enough as children find their
  way around it. Most can be done by parents who
  can give their children more attention in their
  critical age. This parental attention, a good and
  reliable and loving family should keep the
  increased level of violence in teenagers (which
  is quite normal) from drastic outbursts. And this
  is in my opinion the best possible way of
  prevention far more efficient than applying
  rigid laws made by people who are led by
  political points and not by the needs of
  teenagers and our society as a whole.

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The finale

• Are computer-games dangerous? There is no real
  answer, but what we can reasonably conclude is
  that playing video games is harmless if done in a
  normal measure. Overdoing it could cause a series
  of physical and mental problems which combined
  with real-life problems can turn an adolescent
  into a time-bomb. However, the same goes for just
  about any activity in life that is performed in a
  fanatical manner. You can be a fanatical
  supporter of The Beatles and decide to shoot John
  Lennon one day.

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The end