History of Video Games and their impact on the economy King Wells COM/150 05/06/2012 Katie Surber The History of Video Games and their impact on the economy For many years people have been enjoying many forms of entertainment. These forms include listening to music‚ watching their favorite shows on TV‚ and other forms of direct entertainment. There are also other forms of entertainment not only set to entertain but to also cause the person to interact both socially and physically. Video games
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------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER # 1 BACKGROUND 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1.1.1 GAME CONSOLES A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or modified computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device (a television‚ monitor‚ etc.) to display a video game. The term "video game console" is used to distinguish a machine designed for consumers to buy and use solely for playing video games from a personal computer‚ which has many other functions‚ or arcade
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play games? Most games fascinate us‚ not just children but adults as well. Games made our childhood a lot more fun and worth looking back on. So today‚ I will talk about the benefits of playing videogames and why everyone should start learning to play. BODY While many articles focus on why gaming is evil or detrimental to our health‚ in the course of this speech I’ll tell you reasons why you should play video games instead. I. Why should you play videogames? A. Playing video games will
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between 70% and 90% of teens in the United States play video games and it is said that 5% to 10% of those kids are addicted to gaming‚ but what about the other 80%? Although people may argue that the internet or video games cause adolescents to have antisocial personalities that isn’t necessarily true for every person. The internet and videogames can have positive impacts on both the world and people’s lives. The internet and both online and video games aren’t detrimental to adolescents’ intellectual and
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the Supreme Court rightfully ruled against a law that wanted to make it illegal for minors to purchase violent video games on the claims that these types of game cause violent behavior. • The court over ruled it stating that it was unconstitutional violating both the 1st and the 14th amendments. My opponent wants to take this law even further by banning the use of these games to any minor under the age of 18‚ however I believe that this will decline youth there constitutional rights as
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As a group we chose to investigate gendered aspects within video games and how those games embody military values‚ behaviours and discourse. I am going to argue that children can internalise gender stereotypes and military discourse through the medium of gaming and that this can have wider social implications. Analysing gender demarcation‚ which is the process by which gender boundaries are set I looked at how video games encourage the stereotyping of genders‚ with a focus on the male archetype
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Video Game Addiction Nowadays video game addiction has become one of the most popular problems especially among small children and teenagers. This addiction strongly affects ones health‚ in particular‚ eyesight‚ ones back and spine. Addiction makes one to be quite aggressive‚ it is hard to concentrate and one does not even have time to eat or sleep‚ because the only concern are video games. This addiction has been noticed even between adults and that might be quite dangerous‚ one could lose job
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------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Video Games in Education Educational video games are sometimes referred to as ‘edutainment’ in the industry. Experts believe that these games make learning fun by using entertainment as an educational tool. These games take a specific type of learning or topic and build a game around that topic. For example‚ kids might learn math by playing a flying game. The hope is that the child will have fun and forget that they’re learning‚ but
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Censoring Video Games Carlos Martinez HIS220-015 American Civilization March 16‚ 2014 Instructor Melissa Davis Censoring Video Games The on-going debate of power of state government vs. the power of federal government has existed since the Articles of Confederation and the US Constitution came into existence. The effects of this debate have affected the video game industry today by the amount of power and censorship a state has over the video game industry. In 2011‚ the
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violent video games should be banned; they feel that violent video games are the source of today’s violence amongst children. I strongly disagree with them. Video games‚ like movies‚ music and any other form of art‚ are there to entertain people and to enjoy‚ not restrict. What most people fail to realize is that the video game industry‚ like the film industry‚ is heavily regulated with a strict code of parental guidelines already in place. Even the game consoles to play these violent games have parental
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