Harms of violent video games to children.
Since the technology era, specifically video gaming industry started booming in early
2000s, most of the American households started sharing their incomes by purchasing video
games, such as Play Station and Xbox and other gaming apps to their tablets and smartphones.
The statistics show that every year consumers of video games spend more than 30 bln dollars
annually. It is enjoying and can help the children to learn some things while playing games like
the ones that makes you move, physically fight with air holding the controller. However, most
people especially children don’t want to play those kind of games since they make them
physically tired. Therefore, majority of the games require players to sit and play for an extended
period of time.
90% of Americans play video games at home and 90% of the video games contain violence
(Alicia P. 2014) In addition, most of the video games contain inappropriate pictures in the game
as well. There is an article about the death of a 32-year-old man was found dead in an Internet
cafe in Taiwan after a three-day gaming. Doctors diagnosed his death with the cardiac arrest due
to blood circulation failure in his body (Katie, H. CNN. 2015).
It is true that video gaming industry is one of the wealthiest and fastest growing industry in
the technological market making $1.3 bln in 2016 only. (www.statista.com). It can help the
economy grow faster in a technological market but the consequences of the video games when it
is played for extremely long time by children can outweigh the advantages. According to the
