ENGLISH TEXT: PRO AND CONTRA PLAYING VIDEO GAMES

  


    Hi Friends, have you ever played video game? What kinds of video games have you ever played? Is it arcade, adventure, sport, strategy, or the others? How many times do you play video games every day? If you never play a video game, poor you. Well, playing a video game has good and bad effect. As you see, in this time there are many people like playing video game for many different reasons. We can use video game to spend our free time, refresh our mind, and have fun. Do you know that playing video game impact our individual behaviour? However, in this discussion we would like to talk from different side.
   To begin with, let me say that playing video game has many beneficial impact. Video game can be beneficial when used for educational process. Playing video game can increase problem solving skills and creativity. Playing strategy’s sport video game such as Pro Evolution Soccer or usually called PES, before we play this football game we need to make a strategy in game plan. This proves that when we play this game we use our brain to think what kind of the best strategy to win the competition. There are many others beneficial impact such as increase our coordination vision, discovery of new interest, increase focus or concentration, and video gamers perform 10 to 20 percent higher in perceptual and cognitive ability than non-gamers based on research.
  However, there is bad effect of playing video game. Playing video game is wasting time. It can make us addicted and forgetting the time. Another effect is decrease our social activity and make us passive. We may spend less time in other activities such as doing home work, reading, sports, and interacting with the family and friends. While playing video game for long periods of time is harmful, just sitting in one place too long. When someone is focused on trying to complete mission in a video game, we may not take much time for breaks or for exercise. And the new research shows that simply just sitting too long and not getting exercise can be the cause of cancer.
Although playing video games has many beneficial for us, but when we play too much video games we will get the bad effects. So we must smart to manage our time.

Created by : Ramadhany dkk


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