Sunday, July 22, 2012

The Benefits of Playing Video Games

Gaming both video and computer has become more than a fad, it is a part of life. Parents and teachers worry about games having negative effects on children and a great deal has been written about games leading to violent behavior and addiction. However, all is not negative about gaming, studies by leading researchers have shown that video and computer games have many benefit.


One of the benefit of playing video and computer games is inducing in decision making and teaching players to think on their own feet. This will make players be more independent to make a decision. It’s not easy to make a decision in games especially in adventure games, because once you make a mistake, it’s so difficult to be a winner. So, the players need to think on how they can win the game and become a famous winner.

Second benefit that we can get from playing video and computer games is a chance to build or create a team players and hone social skills. This will help the players to be more alert on how to create a great team and learning how to hone their social skills in their real life. As we know, it is not very easy to hone our social skills without any knowledge. From the video games also, we learn slowly how to hone our social skills like talk to others friend in that games or else.

The third benefit of playing this both games is teaching players to solve problems, motivating, and cognitive skills. A lot of games nowadays can be said it as real adventure game which means the games that teaching the players on how to solve the problems in that games also can be used in their own real life. Learning from the games also is the best way to not be a loser in real life.

As conclusion, we can see that a lot of people nowadays especially parents, they only can see the disadvantages of video games, but they never think about what their children will get after playing video games. Actually, video games bring many advantages to us more than bring disadvantages to us. So, we need to think carefully whether it’s good to playing video games or not.

written by,
Asyraaf Syahir Bin Ahmad.

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