by Sairravha Davis

Created on: July 08, 2009

There has always been this back and forth talk on whether or not video games are good or bad. Frankly how could they be bad? In America a person has this hidden right to create. It may not be listed in the constitution but it is there in our every day lives. Without creation nothing we have right now would be here. And with creation comes the freedom to let our imaginations take us places we have never been, experience things we have never seen, be people that we could only dream about being. Like the creation of a movie theater, the creation of video games lets the average person step into a world unlike any other, or a world similar to there own.

In 1958 the first video game was created by William Higinbotham. It was a simple table tennis game that left every teen, child, man and in women in amazement, as well as being entertained. Ever since then video games has grown to challenge us day by day with computer technology. Those challenges further help with brain development in both children and teens. Quick thinking and problem solving are used everyday like in schools, and on the job site. Not just on the latest game of NBA Live. And with the newest form of gaming, RPG (Role Playing Game), it lets us step into another person world and live a whole new life.

With the developments of RPG games like The Sims, Spore, Sims City lets both teenagers and young adult experience creation at its best. Being able to create a people just like them (The Sims), a urban metropolis that rivals any city built by man (Sims City) or letting there imagination stretch in alien planets (Spore). Customizing city plans, housing development, learning how to take care of a young child while managing work and a family. With the skills development from those games, teens and your adults can go on to careers like construction workers and architects. Owning their own business while taking care of a family, or making advancements in science and space. In hard economic times those type of jobs are important.

It's also important to know that being creative is not only used for entertainment but to keep us focus and alert at task. Imagine if we took away video games. Not only are we depriving our children of advancements in technology, but advancements in everyday life as well as jobs. A world without video games is like a world without creation. And a world without creation is a world with nothing good to show for itself.

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