" Turn that crap down! ... "If you keep on playing your video games too much youre going to go brain dead! ... " I, being a video game lover, agree with him. Video games dont rot your brains or make you dumber, as a matter of fact, they can make you smarter. Contrary to popular belief, video games can increase your brain activity and improve mental abilities.
Video games and children video games were first introduced in the 1970s. By the end of that decade they had become a preferred childhood leisure activity, and adults responded with concern about the possible ill effects of the games on children. Probably the main reason for such concern is because children would spend time playing their video games more than doing something "productive" such as their studies. Recent studies of television watching by children have included measures of the time children spend playing video games. ... 7 hours of television per day, and spent some additional time playing video games. A recent study examined video game playing among 357 seventh and eighth grade students. The study found that approximately 36% of male students played video games at home for 1 to 2 hours per week; 29% played 3 to 6 hours; and 12 percent did not play at all.
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