Personally I don't get how people can sit in front of the television for hours on end and find that entertaining. Ill admit it, I have a Wii and play it a lot, but not all day everyday. I am a gamer but not even close to what some consider a true gamer. My brother can literally sit on Xbox live all night playing Halo 3 and talking smack to little kids, and actually enjoy it. I don't get it, what happened to a game that had a start and a finish. A goal that you could actually attain to get, for Super Mario Brothers it was to save the princess from King Kupa, for Donkey Kong it was again to save the princess from...well King Kong, now a days with cames like EverQuest there is no point to playing them, the game go on and on forever. You can play it forever and never accomplish anything, no first place trophy, not even one princess saved.
So is this considered a good hobby to have of a potentially life ruining addiction? People can argue both sides, for one, the parents know where their children are when they are playing video games. They are not out on the streets running wild and causing trouble. However with childhood obesity on the rise sitting indoors all day, with no physical activity of social interaction can be a death sentence making them much more likely to be over weight as an adult, not to mention a nerd.
Even if you don't consider yourself a "gamer" something as simple as playing a game on your cell phone to help pass the time in that boring lecture that never seems to end puts you in that category. In the assigned article on a video game designer, it is shocking for quickly people shun her for what she does and blame her for ruining the minds of our youth. When in fact the opposite is true, in an article from the USA Today from 2007 entitled Wii Speeds Up The Rehab Process, it goes on the describe how the Wii can help people with everything from a car accident to Parkinson's disease. It is good for hand eye coordination. Going through the motions of the sports without the impact is greatly beneficial.
So whether video games are harmful or helpful is dependent upon who you ask, as for me, the jury is still out.
1 comment:
I agree with you that it is important to have a definitive end to video games. I also find it hard to believe that some people are able to stare at a screen for as long as they do. I can't imagine that doing so is good for our eyes, either.
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