Video Games The Pros/Cons

1. Video GamesThe Pros/Cons By: Justin Cheng

2. Positives of Video Games • Teamwork • Education on Technology • Many small lessons in different games • Quick Reflexes and Simple Strategy • Determination • A way to escape reality

3. Negatives of Video Games • Isolates people from the social world • Takes people away from reality • Wastes countless hours of precious time in the Real world • Can affect work and school progress • Can take over your life in a bad way

4. The Question • Should video games be considered detrimental to society’s social growth in young kids to adults?

5. Hypothesis • Video games should be considered as a beneficial tool to help troubled people get through life’s struggles. • (Regardless of the negatives that video games can cause, people need to realize that video games is very beneficial tool to helping people live happy lives.)

6. The Arguments • Video on video game rehab in Korea, (shows how video game addiction is considered a major problem, a “Psych Disorder”) • Video games take people away from the reality of the real world. (getting hooked on games to a point where your life’s duty becomes playing video games) • How video games can affect one’s school and work to a point where they affect their future.

7. Video Game Addiction Rehab video • Talks about the negatives of video games and how it can cause a psychological disorder of video game addiction. • My Refute- Video game addiction can be a serious problem when it goes to far, I’m not disagreeing with that, but I don’t think it’s possible for everyone to have such a strong case of video game addiction. It depends on that person, and how they can overcome it, and I’m pretty sure that only a small percentage of people can or have been through a video game addiction that strong.

8. Video Game Addiction • Sure, addiction is bad, but is it a psychological disorder like it’s defined? Only a few percentage of people suffer from severe video game addiction, and the rest are doing it for fun. • My opinion here is that video game addiction isn’t really an addiction, it’s simply something we like to do a lot. It shouldn’t be treated as an illness like in Korea, because I think they’ve over thinking it.

9. Video Games and its Affect on Work and School • As a lot of parents and teachers would say, to lay off the video games and concentrate more on work, I beg to differ. Video games were simply something kids and myself did to find something to do instead of homework because it was the most fun thing available. • Even if we couldn’t play games, we would probably find something else to do besides homework. • However, it could turn serious to a point where people skip work and school for games which I have seen before.

10. Video Game Addiction cont. • Until recently, Gamer Syndrome was considered by many to be of little impact in a sociological context, recent evidence however contradicts this.  A study done by the Medical Research Center for Game Addiction found that more than 40% of youth were experiencing video games, furthermore, of these 40%, roughly 9% were beginning to show negative effects outside of their homes. These 9% were losing jobs, receiving less than satisfactory grades in school, and some even resorted to crime to support their gaming habits. –Gamersyndrome.com

11. Video on Video Game Addiction • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En5D3Kpej5k&feature=fvst

12. Sources • http://www.marketingcharts.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/nielsen-top-10-pc-game-titles-us-2008.jpg • http://www.webwallpapers.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/halo-3-wallpaper-1.jpg • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/9/91/20071115233006!WoW_Box_Art1.jpg • http://gamersyndrome.com/the-gamer-syndrome/