Are Computer and Video Games Harmful to Children? Reviews

This subject is one that crops up with tedious consistency whenever the red tops are having a slow news week. In all honesty, it palls when you consider that even the most violent videogame doesn't even come close to something like the Saw or Hostel movies. Flick to the entertainment section, and the same newspaper is giving these gory movies ...  Read the complete review

As it probably blatantly obvious by now (if not check my profile) we have a large number of kids, computers and games! How damaging a game is is really down to parental control. Now by parental control I don't mean buying a game in the right age range. Real parental control involves some trust, a parent actually playing the game first ...  Read the complete review

I was walking home from the pub last Saturday night. That relentless freezing high pressure was on its way out but it was still very cold like only early January can be in England. I cut across the local park to shorten the journey and more importantly to avoid the drunken rabble at 1am in the morning. To be fair the park is rather notorious for ...  Read the complete review

Sadly this subject crops up in newspapers and in online polls every year and becomes a subject of debate for all of two days until the next big subject comes along for us to complain about. It usually comes after a young person commits a crime and the parents blame it on video games. Now in my opinion video games are only considered to ...  Read the complete review

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few years you will have noticed there has been a significant increase in children and adults alike using Computers, Laptops and the wide array of games consoles that there are on the market at the moment.. Xbox 360's, Wii's, Playstation 3's, and so on.. If you don't have one in your house you ...  Read the complete review

Today, you can find computers in almost every household. Am,I the only one who thinks children spends too much time with their nose pressed against a monitor these days,whether it's computer games or generally on the computer,and not enough going out into the big world? Sometimes I have a hard time peeling my son away from ...  Read the complete review

On the day GTA IV was released to a new generation of would-be gangsters and virtual criminals, the people responsible for GTA's creation, Rockstar, were asked if they thought their product was in anyway responsible for a culture of violence becoming more prevalent in today's modern society amongst youths and teenagers. No, they replied, because ...  Read the complete review

Some games can be violent like manhunt and should be kept away from young children but playing a violent video game isnt going to turn a goody to shoe kid into a multiple murder and personaly i like video games. in fact i am going to make a company that makes video and in fact very violent video games. Most games that are violent enough to affect ...  Read the complete review

It is like saying is TV harmful to children. First of all let’s talk about violence in video games. Violence is used as entertainment. It existed in old fairy tales, in modern books, in movies and in TV programmes. Blaming video games is unfair. Some violence in video games is unrealistic and is there to entertain. I am not ...  Read the complete review

Computers are a useful educational tool they can teach children a lot, and the knowledge they can gain is a real boost for a child knowing they can use a computer. My son at seven knows how to get onto the internet and print pages out. I dont let him loose on it all the time, there are certain times he is allowed on the computer and I tell how ...  Read the complete review

It is a difficult balance for parents. Video games generate more revenue than movies. Companies behind these games lure children into playing their games because games coming out now are very good. Competition and interest drives some children to spend hours playing game of their choice. What do the parents do? Keep the child happy or switch off ...  Read the complete review

As you all know i'm a gamer. I love games! I have four consoles and two handhelds and I usually play games a few hours during the week as i'm busy during the week. But at weekends, i could play games all day long. But this review isn't about me. There's one question i'm asking here.... 'Are videogames harmful to ...  Read the complete review

When I was a child there were no such things as Gameboy Advance (GBA) and PlayStation Portable (PSP). The closet you could get to a ‘handheld’ console, was electronic games such as ‘Munch man’, and ‘Kevin Keegan’s Football Challenge’, which is only two of the titles that come to mind at the moment. These ‘handheld’ games and I use ...  Read the complete review

I am a computer games player, and been so for many years now. This discussion topic is an interesting one, because it has and will continue to create powerful debate. First of all it is imperative that we establish what the word ‘harmful’ means. Using a strict dictionary definition we could say that ‘harmful’ means to cause or is capable of ...  Read the complete review

It really does depend on what this means to be honest. It can affect your social life-games are addictive. And it can affect your health from lack of exercise and staring at the screen a lot. But I think the main ways that it can harm a child is because of the violence, and education. I play many games in my life so would know myself, but ...  Read the complete review

Following my earlier review on addiction to computer games, I decided to write few words about effect that computer games might have on children. Assuming that children are biggest consumers of computer games, this brings out very important social issue of how the time they spend in the front of computer monitor or TV while playing console ...  Read the complete review

I have just become the first person in the UK to have a revolutionary new form of surgery ! No it's not a face transplant (or the lobotomy that a lot of people think I should have!) , it's a thumb transplant ! I love Video Games, I may be crap at them, but I do love them. ----- My history of video games ----- I first became a ...  Read the complete review

Unlike most other recreational activities, video games attempt to create their own virtual environments. During an intensively addictive video game, switching off after an uninterrupted 5 hour session one can feel a little disorientated. It is understandable for parents to worry about the zombie appearance of their child as he appears ...  Read the complete review

My name is crispy and I am a gamer. I first started playing games when I was around 7 or 8 years old. I remember playing many of the early arcade games like Space Invaders and Centipede, and several of my friends from school had home computers like Amstrads and C64s. We got our first computer way back in 1987 when I was 9 ...  Read the complete review

Back in the dark ages kids used to acutally go outside and interact with each other and the environment - lerning perhaps that if you run a lot and eat a lot you dont get fat. Nowadays kids are stuck indoors all day of a sunny day, playing on the new version of 'death valley super killer' type thing. this cannot always be ...  Read the complete review