Games consist of three types I would say : Indoor games, Outdoor games and the third one which is Virtual games. The outdoor one is my favourite which consists of physical movements. These games consist of Cricket, Football, Badminton, Volleyball and various games. In these games one has to do movements like running, jumping etc. These games make one healthy and helps to keep the body fit and fine. Indoor games consist of chess, carrom, darts, board games which makes the mind relax and refresh from daily hectic routine. These are the games played with family ones. Virtual games consist of playing games on mobile devices, pc’s, laptop, virtual box, play stations and emulators. These are the latest games and devices which are invented. As day by day technology is developing these games are also being developed. First computer games were introduced then slowly slowly mobile games, play stations, virtual box etc.
As early as 1950, computer scientists were using electronic machines to construct relatively simple game systems, such as Bertie the Brain in 1950 to play tic tac toe, or Nimrod in 1951 for playing Nim. These systems used either electronic light displays and mainly as demonstration systems at large exhibitions to showcase the power of computers at the time. Spacewar! is considered one of the first recognized video games. Developed in 1961 for the PDP-1 mainframe computer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by a group of students there, it allowed two players to simulate a space combat fight on the PDP-1’s relatively simplistic monitor. The game’s source code was shared with other institutions with a PDP-1 across the country as the MIT students themselves moved about, allowing the game to gain popularity.
Video game replacing Outdoor games
Earlier years children playing outdoors were in large numbers. They all were in fit and fine conditions. As the years passed children gradually got addicted to video games rather than outdoor games. They find playing these games sitting in one place for hours interesting. Back in the year parents used to scold children to play less outdoors and stay indoors but as the time changed the words were also changed now parents scold children to go and play outside. I admit the fact that playing video games is also entertaining but still a certain amount of limit. These all limits are crossed now by these younger generations. No doubt this generation of children are smarter than older ones in technology, but they are not strong enough to face the real world physically. For them doing online work is easy but not physical work like helping their mother by doing daily chores.
Problems of video games
As said earlier everything changes as the technology is advanced. Children nowadays may face many health and mental related problems due to video games. To play video one has to look at the screen continuously which might damage their eyes. Nowadays there are headphones available which are also gaming accessories. Children put on headphones and play games at full volume which may cause eardrum damage and can cause to deaf.
Once the game is started it is hard to make yourself away from it so one sits for longer hours a day in one position which might damage the spinal cord and body starts aching. The headache is also one of the problems caused by continuous staring at the screen of devices.
One of the popular types of video games is action games that consist of shooting and fighting. These games are popular from small children to teenagers. Continuous playing of these action games affects mentally. The mindset of children has changed from calm to violence. They don’t even listen to their parents and will talk to them rudely. This is the situation in today’s generation.
Online gaming
Playing online is one of today’s trends. Many people play online games with friends and relatives. Children of smaller ages are too addicted to these games. These online games have business strategies to make money. They would firstly make you play the game for free but they will show new features or guns or characters which are paid which make the children think about buying it. This addiction of playing paid games is so strong that the children are ready to fight their parents if they won’t allow them to buy it. One of the recent case studies is that the gaming addict boy from Punjab who secretly spent Rs 16 lakh of his parents’ money on the battle royale mobile game PlayerUnknown’s Battleground or PUBG is being made to work at a scooter repair shop.While gamers have been known to go to great lengths to prove their love for PUBG, the teen gaming addict from Punjab’s Kharar took the craze for the mobile game to another level after he spent Rs 16 lakhs from his father’s account to buy virtual ammunition in the game. The 17-year-old would take his father’s mobile phone on the pretext of online classes, but would access his father’s bank accounts to make in-app purchases for him and his friends.
At last I would say that “everything has its own limit so please do everything in limit and not to do anything wrong that would hurt others”.
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