Caution: Video Game Playing in Session

Violent games are the best sellers in the gaming industry today. Polls and surveys show’s that players would rather pick video games that take place in virtual battlefields like “Halo” or “Counter-strike”. Or video games that give the player the ability to do anything like blow-up cars or sniper walking pedestrians in virtual cities like “Grand Theft Auto 3”. In an interview for Newsweek with senior research fellow at Pew Internet & American Life Project, Steve Jones, states that college students’ game of choice is “Grand Theft Auto 3” (Are Games Good?). The sales are good for the

Kids often like to imitate what they see on television or around them. Like when a kid sees Superman flying in the sky with a cape, the kid would make and wear their own cape, and supposedly fly around the room. But sometimes what they see to re-enact could be dangerous, especially from video games. In Pierce County, a 7 year-old boy was caught driving. The boy decided to hop into the family car to buy Cheerios at a local supermarket. A motorist saw the boy driving and decided to call 911. When the police stopped boy and opened the boy’s door, the boy threw his hands in the air and took his foot off the brakes and bumped into the patrol car ahead of him. Luckily, no one was hurt. When the boy was asked how’d he learn how to drive, the boy answered, “by watching video games” (KOMO news).

Video games may also be hazardous to your health, physically and mentally. A 13 year-old girl with no history of seizures had a seizure while playing “Super Mario Brothers” (“Nintendo Dangers”). Some people have seizures because they are sensitive to light, but video game-related seizures occur in people who aren’t light sensitive (Alder p262). A Massachusetts doctor reported a case in which a 6 year-old boy had recurrent episodes of fecal incontinence. The child ignored going to the bathroom because the child was spellbound with the video game (Richardson p10). A 35 year-old woman played Nintendo for five hours straight, that the next day she felt severe pain in her right thumb. Other cases of the same symptoms have been reported that doctors named this problem,

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