violent games and mental problems

Not only children but also adults have fun time playing video games. Technology is developing faster and faster, and there are more demands for more realistic games day by day. I am not going to say that all the video games are bad – of courses, it is one way to get rid of stress.- I am not going to say that they are all good neither, but for me, I am more on the negative side personally. What good effects do video games have other than blow people’s stress??


What I’m focusing on is war simulation games. It came out to train soldiers with less money. Purpose was brilliant! But as technology is developing more and more, more realistic simulation training games came out, and old games are opened to the public. Then? You can see the result. People are hilarious on theses simulation war games, and game industries create those kinds of game that are more realistic than those in soldier training system/program.

In my opinion, all human being have violent propensity in them, and those war simulation games stimulate disposition to be active. For example, there is a high school student, and he was given hell from one of his teachers. He comes back home and play a shooting game thinking that the bad guy in the game is the teacher. I might be a stress buster, but it activates his violent nature and lures his demand to kill the teacher like he did in the game.

Teenagers are learning what is right and what is wrong. They are in the process of learning the world, and for them, video games are also something to learn from. By playing those games, they take what’s going on in the games as a reality also, and are confused on what is real and shat is not real. Well-known example of this situation is Columbine.

This kind of confusion does occur not only to teenagers but also to soldiers. In South Korea, one of the soldiers, Kim, shoot all the co-trainees in his dorm room at night while all of them were sleeping. He was sentenced to death, but what he confessed made the nation astonished – “I thought I was playing a simulation game.”

According to the journal "Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life" by Craig A. Anderson, the more exposed to those violent games, the more aggressive people are.

Video games are not evil things, but if they cause problems in the society and harm people, then people have to think about the side effect of those carefully.