Violent Video Games
Video games first introduced in the early 1970s, when Atari Company introduced game called Pong in 1972. ... Both of them enjoyed playing violent video game, called Doom. ... And because they enjoyed playing this violent game, people think that this game was the cause for Columbine shootings. People think that violent video games create aggressive, violent behavior in young people. ... There are so many researches whether violent games cause aggressive behavior or not. Anderson and Bushman’s meta-analysis and Sherry’s meta-analysis, both conclude that exposure to violent video games has a negative effect on a variety of measures and there is a causal connection between violent video games and aggressive behavior. ... That is, the more one played video games, the weaker the relation to aggressive behavior. ... I am not sure whether these violent games cause the aggressive behavior or not. I like playing video games, violent or not, and I have so many friends and I know so many people who also enjoy playing violent video games. Playing such games will not make people more aggressively and violently behaved, because they can differentiate between games and real life. ... People tend to blame video games for such incidents, like Columbine tragedy, rather than the parents, their social life, and their environment.