Video Games have always been a part of the civilized world, since 1958 when the first video game was developed by Physicist William Higinbotham the world started to take part of what is today one of the biggest industry's!
Games influence lifestyle
How is this possible? When playing a game you feel more relaxed, dopamine and serotonin rushes through your brain and if its more competitive than that moves into being an obsession. They attract people by giving them achievements and other goods which in real life they have no meaning, but in the virtual world they are seen as something extraordinary.
These kind of games can improve the competitiveness in real life too, as it shows that doing something better than someone else can get you some "fame". This is triggered in school, when getting high grades or when your playing a sport outside with your friends, the need to win is always going to overtake the one to lose.
Too much of anything is never too good!
You may think that playing games is a waste of time, it is some sort of true. If you are spending 12 hours at home playing video games then that is not managing your time and could seriously damage your eyesight and overwork your brain giving you unnecessary headaches and blackouts ( happened to me ). That much time wasting on games that do not give much of a real benefit in the real world is simply throwing hours of your life away, just to have a little fun , which nobody said you cannot do.
The benefits of Video Games
Believe it or not there are quiet a few benefits that playing video games could influence your lifestyle, especially if you start from a young age.
- You will be able to follow instructions faster, for example completing your homework for school if there is a reward at the end ( some teachers do that to motivate their students to do their homework)
2.Hand to eye coordination, this is if you play video games that requires a lot of movement and stuff happening at the same time, this can be used by a lot of people such as the army , or fighter planes as playing video simulation games is a lot similar to what they will be doing in real life.
3.Planning, playing a tactical or strategy game can influence your planning skills due to in the game having only a few resources to begin with you have to be skillful and know where to invest and creating some sort of plan of what to do with the resources. This can be used in developing architecture for big buildings that have limited resources and even in logistics.
Video Games that have ruined lives
Playing too much video games can really ruin some people's lives and even be inspired in a bad way. This is something that most people don't think about that even video games are addictive. Everything in this world is addictive if you play or take it too many times. Sugar, weed and even texting is addictive.
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OMG!!! I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing with us @andrei
Just had to share a little about this with you.
in my opinion video gaming is something that should be avoided. You can spend that time being productive, working on your projects and goals. Work on your health with physical activity. I quit playing video games when I was 15 years old and traded it for programming and learning about computers. Best decision I ever made
I remember helping my boss' daughter with this topic and going through a lot of research. I have to agree that there are a lot of pro's when it comes to the gaming world. In the same breath though my boyfriend is a gamer and some nights when he comes home from work I really just want to sit and talk or cuddle where he wants to relax and wind down through gaming. This puts a strain on our relationship not a big one because I grew up with my brother who is also a gamer. Great post though
Thanks for the article andrei! :) . Your post reminded me of this TED talk by Jane McGonigal: http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world/transcript?language=en (link to the transcript - to watch the video scroll up on the page).