Home Video Game Industry In 1972 founders Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney scrounged $50‚000 from family‚ friends and local banks‚ formed their own company. They hired Alan Alcorn who created Pong and put a sample unit in Andy Capp’s Tavern in suburban Sunnyvale to see if anyone would play it. Twenty-four hours later‚ the owner called Bushnell in a rage and demanded that he get over to the bar with his tool kit as soon as possible--the prototype game had broken down because it was being flooded with
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Reading: Playing with fire? Lecture 7 Week 3 References: Ames‚ Iowa. 2014. Life lessons: Children learn aggressive ways of thinking and behaving from violent video games. 24 March. Accessed July 12‚ 2014. http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2014/03/24/violentgamesbehavior. Bushman‚ Brad J‚ and Craig A Anderson. 2001. “EFFECTS OF VIOLENT VIDEO GAME SON AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR‚ AGGRESSIVE COGNITION‚ AGGRESSIVE AFFECT‚ PHYSIOLOGICAL AROUSAL‚ AND PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR: A Meta - Analytic Review of the Scientific
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Should Video Games be Banned? An ongoing argument where people think that video games should be banned. Should video games be banned? All of the arguments are repetitive and based on false belief‚ with very little real evidence. Some people think‚ ‘Violent video games should be banned because they influence the young minds of our generation and that they will bring cruelty and death among thee by doing indescribable acts of scandalous crime‚ thieving from innocent people and slaughtering their
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Has it ever occurred to anyone to look at how much time and money is being wasted in an industry that prides itself on the entertainment it provides‚ the video gaming industry? The problem is not the industry itself‚ but the types of games it is creating. Too many games have become graphic‚ sexual in content‚ and quiet aggressive. These games are not only infesting the minds of the adolescent communities‚ but people of all ages. The addictive nature‚ real life plots and incentives rewarded throughout
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The video games are well known for their anti-social and violent influence in our children’s attitudes. But some research has proven that these negative effects are due to the children’s excessive playing time‚ and more and more studies are being made to prove that the video games can be an excellent tool for children’s hand-eye coordination‚ their problem solving and analytical skills‚ and they can also help children in the social domain. We can see some really good positive effects
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Citation: * “Video Games: A Cause of Violence and Aggression” from SerendipUpdate’s blog. Fri‚ 01/04/2008. <http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1723> This site provided basic information about social problems merged with video gamers tendencies. It does raise some important issues about the effect of videogames in our society and status that may be useful for my Recommendation Report. It is a commercial site rather than an academic site‚ so it provides some internal opinions
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effect of video games on children”. The amount of information researched on the psychological effect was a lot and thus the topic question for the research was then changed to “the psychological effect of video games on children”. The main reason for researching this topic was the fact that there are a lot of young children in the world who play immensely violent games. Many children and their parents ignore the game rating. Many parents do not understand the adverse effect that those video games would
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Evolution of Video Games Video games originated from the development of electronic games. William Higinbotham was said to be the inventor of the first electronic game‚ Tennis for Two‚ by many.A similar game was then released on the Magnavox Odyssey‚ the first home video game console by Ralph Baer. The game Spacewar!‚ a computer game by Steve Russell‚ was adapted by Nolan Bushnell and turned it into the first commercially sold arcade game‚ Computer Space. The first major video game company‚ Atari
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Do violent video games affect kids‚ ages 14-18? Violent video games have been around since 1976 when Death Race 2000 came out. In 1979 a game went out called Texas Chainsaw Massacre‚ in which the object of the game was to chop up as many people with a chainsaw as you could. Parents boycotted toy stores that sold this game. Since then‚ games have become ever more violent and realistic. I think it is the reality and the interactivity of the game which seems to have the greatest impact on teenagers
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Fighting the online video game wars in China 1. Introduce case: Definitions 2. Information about China: Country profile: China has a tremendous market for video games. With close to 40 million gamers‚ China was commanding $1 billion in revenue in 2007. Putting these numbers into perspective: 40 million gamers equals the total population of Switzerland‚ Israel‚ Austria‚ Honduras and Bulgaria combined. Today‚ China‘s gaming public‚ meaning people that play on a regular basis‚ exceeds the population
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