Adriana Lezama
English 9
March20, 2014
6th HR.

Many students in universities are arguing weather video games effect people. Some are

arguing that they do affect peoples everyday lives and their future; while others argue the opposite.

Students at universities are trying to look for more statistics to prove what they believe for video

games. Students against video games also say risk failing games, and withdrawal of financial support

from tuition- paying parents.

Students at different universities have proven that people who play video games get

aggressive and have different mood behaviors. Others that argue that they don’t affect, say it gives a

positive lesson, is a proper interaction, and doesn’t affect at all. There has been enough proven research

that video games do hurt people mentally, therefore I am against video games.

Video games aren’t taken into consideration as parts as addictions while many believe

it just isn’t. People believe that addictions have to be drugs, physical fitness, alcohol, or disorders when

really there’s more. There’s many things that people don’t consider an addiction like video games,

people consider this as an entertainment that doesn’t affect you whatsoever but if you think about it

and take a look at how people react to them you can start seeing that there is something wrong.

There is enough evidence that video games do cause problems that affect people mentally, not right

away, but through time. “ too much leads to no human interaction ”(page:29). The evidence ehere

shown allows us to see a video game players obsession and how it controls them, the players eventually

have no control. Video games don’t just hurt a video gamer mentally but also withdraws them to any

human interactions. The evidence shown allows us to see a video gamer’s obsession and how it controls

them and this is bad because the players eventually have no control. Video games are also a withdrawal

to any human interactions whatsoever. “And of roommates who no longer respond to human

interactions while playing, transfixed as they are by the interface bridging virtual experience and human

mind”. They then are no longer thinking of the real world, what’s actually going on around them. After

this, video gamers are no longer realistic and are less social. “Suppose further they claim role playing

games allow them to be courageous heroes they cannot be in real life or that communicate with online

friends teaches them something about relationships they would otherwise never know about” (pg.30).

They no longer think realistic when they try to be someone else or someone they wish they were by

Playing these games. Although some researchers say video games are harmless, one can also argue that

they can be mentally and emotionally harmful. “Living out their personal fantasies, usually by adopting

the traits they believe they lack in the real world” (pg.29). Therefore I believe video games are an

addiction weather people consider it or not.