Video Games

After a lot of in depth research it seems that the first video game we can track goes as far back as to the 1950’s. This first and foremost highlights the obvious point that video games have been prominent in our lives for literally years, and as technology continues to develop, it will most probably remain this way forever.

There continues to be a stereotypical image and definition relating to someone that plays video games appears to be immensely unsociable. Whilst analysing this definition further, I came to the conclusion that this is in fact far from the truth. Those that play video games continuously are in fact the opposite and are quite sociable as they appear to be engaging in conversation with those they are playing against or even their online game player character. Statistics have recently shown that video games, in total appear to appeal to a huge age bracket of people, with noticeably the youngest player being 6 years old and on average the oldest appearing to be 86 years of age. This on its own proves that the population of video games is outstanding and ever increasing. The statistic not only shocked me hugely, but also made me realise that video games do not stereotypically just include playing football related or violent games on a play stations or Xboxs, but can also include bowling or tennis games on the Wii – a criteria that strongly appeals to the older generation of people.

“Video skills turn you into morons”

There is no arguing that through time we most probably have all heard the statement indicated above, however it has been proved over and over again that video games – regardless of their content, do not physically harm you. Video games interestingly do not sit outside of cultures and remain popular to a wide variety of people, not just the original stereotypes. The main stereotypes that appears alongside video games is that they are unhealthy, only played by men and all games have a violent nature. After my wide range of research and much deliberation in my lectures we found that this is not necessarily the case and near enough my whole glass – mixed gender, have at some point played a video game and thoroughly enjoyed it!