The pros and cons of playing video games 13 Articles

by Van T.

Since the first commercially sold video game in 1971 this relatively new form of media has become one of the dominant forms of entertainment known in the world today. Evolving from blurry, pixilated colors on an arcade mac...read more

by Athman Adiseshan

Pros and Cons of Video Games Cons Video games have, for numerous ages, had violent themes! There have been numerous games that involve shooting, stealing, and even running over people with cars! Monkey see, monke...read more

by Thaxton Lewis

The obvious pros of video game playing are that they enable a person to develop great hand eye coordination and they also make the user adapt to the controller based on the game. Also, with the advent of online competit...read more

by Jeremy A. Feliciano

The world of video games. This subject is very sensitive depending on which side your on. I have been on both sides of this fence. First, lets look at the positive end. Video games allow the user to enter a vast world w...read more

by Alexander Maaby

The upsides and downsides of gaming can't be defined, but rather put up some guidelines to how it works as it depends on every single person. Everyone in this world is different and we do stuff in our own way as well as we...read more

by Steven Francis

Video games have become as valid form of entertainment as movies, no doubt and its hold will get much stronger. When you plug your console/pc in, you are not restricted to the role of mere observer. You become the hero/vil...read more

by emily zola

Video games have gotten a bad rap in the media. A typical gamer is portrayed as a rapt teenager hunkered in front of a TV, clutching a joystick, face bathed in the blue light of a violent action fantasy. And there is som...read more

by Bruce Bostwick

Doesn't video games get enough heat as it is? You seem to hear about people blaming games for everything wrong in the world. I can't write much on the negativity because that's too common and ridiculous. It's as if the ...read more

by Daniel Heinrichs

While some of you are sitting on your computer, listening to your children play video games, you may become a bit angry at the fact that that's all they ever do. The truth is, in fact, that children have the highest reflex...read more

by Mark Larison

There are some pros to playing video games but unfortuntly there are more cons. I myself love video games and have loved them ever since I got a super nintendo when they came out. It will be hard for me to admit there is...read more

by Kirill Balakin

The main reason I write this article, is that me, myself was blamed many times in addiction to video games. My parents, my friends, even my girlfriend were complaining me in spending too much time in front of my monitor...read more

by DJ Matera

There are pros and cons. I like to talk about the cons. Video games (or at least some) seemed to eat away at my life. I used to feel addicted to the Sims 2 on my PC, and the hours just vanished as I played it, leaving ...read more

by Stephanie A. Smith

I love video games, so it will be easy for me to write the pros, but hard for me to write about the cons of the video game. Here goes. Pros of the video game: Helps improve hand-eye coordination(definitely helped me...read more