Friday, February 5, 2010

Video games and the effects on people.


Video games have always been looked at as harmful to people. Video games can cause things like obesity and seizures. In recent years video games have taken a different light. Now video games are doing positive things for the world. Video games are making people fit, improving vision, and keeping the elderly youthful. The new exergames making working out fun. Games like Dance Dance Revolution and Nintendo Wii. With Nintendo addition of the wii fit board working out is even funner. It makes you work all components of your body. You start breaking a sweat and your having so much fun you don't even realize that your getting fit. These games are beneficial for young gamers that don't get physical activity because these games will prevent them from obesity. Video games are also improving peoples vision. You can see that after hours of game play games have an excellent ability to pick out moving objects in a crowd. First person shooter games really help with this. Games like call of duty, modern war far, and grand theft auto. Lastly i wanna talk about how video games are helping the elderly. They are improving there well being through cognitive training. Games like Donkey Kong, PAC Man, and tetris help make old people feel better and speed up reaction time.


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