Violent Video Games Effect on Children

Abstract

There is inconclusive evidence to support claims that violent video games have a negative effect on children. Video games contain ratings of E-Everyone, T-Teen, M-Mature allowing consumers know the type of suggested audience for the specific game. There are age-appropriate games available for everyone seeking to play. Some games are educational and recommended by teachers, others are for entertainment. Researchers have sought out to validate some of the possible effects associated from playing video in general and violent games. Studies contain information to support violent video games effect on children, but other studies dispute the claims stating inconclusive evidence to base any effects on children as a direct consequence of the violent game.

Violent Video Games Effect on Children

The video game evolution began in 1967 with the introduction of Atari’s Pong. Within the past four decades the evolution includes the release of more than 70 consoles onto the video game market. The consoles include systems such as the ever popular Atari, Coleco, Sega, Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and the personal computer. The technological development of video game consoles also includes a rapidly growing market of video game options. The graphics available in the 1980s with Pac-Man and Donkey Kong in comparison with the graphics available today games, such as Halo4 and Call of Duty is a reflection of the advancement of computer games. As long as video games have been in existence, so has the debate of the effects of video games on children. The topic is even more debatable as the graphics continue to improve and the popularity and demand for violent video games increase.

The debate on the effects of violent video games on children has prompted further research and investigation into this topic. The news often reports stories of violence and implicates the perpetrator as a habitual player of violent video games....