If you are part of the 76% of Americans that play video games, you like video games. Video games have had an effect on society b
ecause video games can be helpful at school, Video games can help kids that need therapy, and Video games can be used to pass time for kids in hospitals who have to lay in the hospital bed for a long time. The first video game was invented in 1958, and it was called Pong. Pong was a game where a ball would go back and forth and you controlled a paddle to make it go up and down. The point of the game was exactly like ping pong, or tennis. The goal was to get the most amount of points in a limited amount of time.
One positive thing about video games is the fact that they can be used as entertainment. Many people in the hospitality industry use video games as entertainment for people who need to stay in the hospital for a long time.
One negative thing about video games is the fact that some people play it too much, and it is affecting our brains. For many people who play too many video games, the awareness portion of the brain slows down and they pay less attention to what is happening around them.
Overall, video games have lots of potential for the future, there are things such as virtual reality being improved every year, and recently there has been a boom in augumented reality. Video games do cause some good and bad, but the bad will decrease when we eventually learn to control how we use video games. Video games will do very good in many different businesses and will make some serious cash, but there is some competition slowly rising in the video game business. Video games are the future, and it is very noticable.
