Video game addiction and other Internet compulsive disorders mask depression, anxiety, learning disabilities

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/kids-addicted-video-games-violent-experts-article-1.1298338

          In the article "Video game addiction and other Internet compulsive disorders mask depression, anxiety, learning disabilities" by Tracy Miller, the article is about how 

"Addiction to video games and the Internet is gaining legitimacy as a psychological disorder, and experts say it's 

not uncommon for kids to become violent when their 'drug' is 

taken away" What its saying is that kids are so attached to 

the video games and already addicted that when the kids get

there video games taken away that they freak out and start to 

violent and start to hit there parents. In the article it says that

Violent video games can be as addicting as drugs, experts 

say, one expert,  Dr. Michael Fraser, a clinical psychologist 

on the upper East Side and professor at Weill Cornell 

Medical College said that, “It affects the same pleasure 

centers in the brain that make people want to come back,". Also theres another expert named Fraser  who said that ""Kids can become physically and verbally abusive," said Fraser. "Most parents have trouble imagining this—that their 12-year-old boy would push his mother when she  tries to unplug the game. There's an example how kids these days have been getting violent. In the article is says that in reality if your son was a good boy and you let him play these violent 

games they wont be that good boy anymore all you will have is an video game addict.

Studying the Effects of Playing Violent Video Games

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/science/studying-the-effects-of-playing-violent-video-games.html?_r=0

     Today's article is based on Studying the Effects of Playing Violent Video Games, this article they are relating it to the massacre that had happened in opened fire at Columbine High School, at the movie theater in Aurora, CO. They believe that violent video games was the problem because why this happened and they said that the theater one was planned to be like a video game.In the article it also says that scientist have been studying the effects of the media violence behavior since the 1950's and nothing has been found but video games in particular because from experience since I play video games but not as much because they got boring they have been getting more and more bloodier through out the years. The games that I play which are only for ages 17+ I see little kids playing these games online because when I'm playing you can hear them, and that's the problem why there's been killings from young kids killing other people because it's the parents fault for buying them games that are too violent for the kid and when their kids they have imaginations and they think different and maybe one day they might find a real gun and they may not know that it's real and start shooting at people.

Computer and Video Game History

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcomputer_videogames.htm


     Today I read an article about " Computer and Video Game History" Mary Bellis and it talks about how video games first started and who invented them. The first video game in history to ever be invented in 1952 was a graphical computer game, a version of Tic-Tac-Toe, the person who invented that game was A.S. Douglas. Later on in 1958 William Higinbotham created his first video game. His game, called "Tennis for Two," was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope.

      After the Tennis for Two gane was done in 1962 a guy named Steve Russell invented SpaceWar which was the first computer game to ever be played in history of video games on a computer. The first person to write a video game played on a television set, a game called Chase was called, Ralph Baer and this happened in 1967. In 1971 was the time when video games started to get big because thats when they started to make the arcade games. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney both together created the first arcade game, that arcade game was based on the video game that Steve did "space war".

On the Affects of Video Games on Social Behavior

https://www.gameinformer.com/blogs/members/b/turdfurgy_blog/archive/2013/01/11/on-the-affects-of-video-games-on-social-behavior-research-paper.aspx
             

     The article that I read today is called "On the Affects of Video Games on Social Behavior'' by  Turd Furgy and its about how video games affect peoples behaviors. In the article it states that the recent shooting school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut may have been caused because of the violent video games that are out there. That's the first thing they brought up when the incident happened.  Also in the article it proves how video games can cause problems like the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. For example it says,"Since the late 70's, video games have become a growing trend, but some researchers say that video games may be more than just a growing trend; they may be a growing problem as well. “Paducah, Kentucky, Jonesboro, Arkansas, Littleton, Colorado, these three towns have all experienced similar multiple school shootings. The shooters were all gamers, gamers who habitually played extremely violent video games” This explains how video games have been affecting peoples behavior and different way in thinking because they believe they are playing a video game. However the video game has been growing bigger and bigger since the 1970's there's more violence then anything. Now it's more dangerous because since there is more violent video games and more little kids are going to star to play them later on in the future it will affect them.

Questions to be answered

1.When did video games start?
2.How do video games affect your life?
3.Whats the average time that people play video games?
3.Have people increased from using video games.