First Person Shooter was a video about a family’s worries as their teenage son becomes addicted to CSS. The father believes his son is playing too much of the game, and has tried almost everything to get him to stop, but all of them failed.
He wants to find out more about video games and their affect on children, mostly if they promote violence and turn kids into violent people. He goes to a video game fair as part of his studies, but there is no real information there about the affects they may cause. I believe this is because the makers of the games don’t want their game to stop selling if they show too much information about this issue. The only information about the affects video games may have on the players was locked away in a glass case.
The father also interviewed many other parents whose children played CSS. He found out that his son was not the only one who was addicted to the game. Many of the parents said their children stayed up all night playing, and shut out the real world. His studies led him to a CSS competition where his son and friends had entered. He saw many parents wondering the crowds looking for their children amongst hundreds of CSS fanatics. They also had the same trouble with their children, but a few were glad that their son was safe at home playing the game, and not out on the street doing drugs. I believe this is a good opinion. Many children nowadays live on the streets and drink or take drugs, which is not good for them. The parents would be happier if they knew where their children were, even if it meant they had to put up with them playing games.
There were many more interviews in the video, but many of them were inconclusive. A speaker said that one child had gone out to the playground with a gun. He shot 12 kids, 8 were head shots. He was speaking as though a game had made him do this. The child’s psychiatrist said he didn’t play video games, he only watched movies. This shows that video games are not always to blame for violence as there is no actual proof.
If I was the parent of a child who was addicted to a video game, I would restrict the hours of playing so they would not be able to play all night, take away the computer or console when they are not allowed to use it and make sure that the child is always home after school so they cannot play anywhere else. I would even put a lock on their door to lock them in if it got too bad, so they would not be able to go anywhere else to play it.
It is a concern that someone may become addicted to video games. Some video games make the game so interesting that you want to play it forever. I believe this will not happen to me or any of my friends as we know that other things come first before video games, but it still is a risk for people who have no discipline at home, because they have no-one to teach them this.
I believe video games may be addictive in a dangerous way. The person may become so addicted they will shut out the rest of the world. They may not eat because they are constantly playing, which is not good for their health. It will have an effect on their social life, because they will not go out much to meet new people. This sort of behaviour is not normal, so the person may feel depressed and tired. The person may become angry at the slightest things because they are sleep deprived as they have been playing the game too late at night.
I believe this is the only way that video game addiction may be dangerous. It would not turn anyone into violent people and there is no proof that it has. I believe having violent video games is an outlet for people’s anger. They can act their anger out on the game, and not relieve it by bashing someone in real life.
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