The effects of video game culture
In the "old days" before Tony Hawk signed his name to video games and MTV Cribs professional athletes showed cabinets video game console, being a player was not something to be proud. Geeks only were the players, and being obsessed with Final Fantasy or Super Mario Brothers was a crime so geek like having a collection of Dungeons & Dragons games, or playing Magic: The Gathering in periods.However school holidays, at some point video games became cool. Instead of saving their money to buy bicycles and basketballs, the children began to save to buy a Playstation 2 and Nintendo Gamecube. While many people might consider this as a shift in interest and the interests of young people has changed between 1900 and 1940 due to technology, the movement that led to the game of geek cool new it was unforgivable to make a series effects.Video games, since moving to the mainstream, has gone from a cottage industry to one that brings in more than six billion dollars a year, according to PC World writer Tom Mainelli. The video game "Halo 2" grossed $ 125 million in its first day of sales alone. Numbers, a website dedicated to finance films and music, quotes the highest opening weekend of a movie like the movie "Spiderman", which opened its doors in just under $ 115 million in its first weekend week in May 2002. As the figures show, it is clear that video games are rapidly catching up, and even eclipsing the movies as a tool for cultural purposes entertainment.The cultural phenomenon of video games are even greater economic impact. There are few people in our society who have not heard the cry of the video games are turning our kids violent! "Everything from suicide to school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, have been blamed on video games. As a result, people have begun to take more seriously the games, both good and bad results. Good results are higher quality games which not only depend on shooting and racing, and the limits of what the children of a certain age can buy. The poor performance include people like Jack Thompson, a lawyer who is vehemently opposed to. video games of all kinds including leading politicians such as Hillary Clinton has joined the battle, after the Littleton massacre quoted in Mother Jones as having said "What kind of values we are promoting when a child can go into a store and find video games where you can win on the basis of how many people that can kill or how many places you can fly? "Although most people, players and politicians, are in the middle of the spectrum, is too often the banks that receive the most space of the press, leaving many players not perplexed as to whether Games are the creations of developers holy or temptations of the underworld of fire -. that only further confuses the situation as seen from the above tests, the cultural influence of video games becoming more popular among the general public has been both positive and negative, but can not be dismissed.The third important effect of video games going mainstream is the purpose of entertainment. Even Ray Bradbury in his book Fahrenheit 451, announced a day when people have a more interactive entertainment experience. In his world, was the TV. In our world, is through video games. games to take the entertainment value of television and add interactivity in the interest of both the game and socially. According to MIT professor Henry Jenkins, sixty percent of frequent gamers play with others, whether friends, spouses or other relatives. Whereas television is a business social isolation, with both sides to sit and watch passively, interactive video games provide not only the level of play, but with the other person or persons with whom the person is playing. As systems and advances in game technology, the level of interactivity will only increase, leading to an almost inevitable mix of movies, television and games great entertainment system.It is clear that phenomenon of video games becoming more popular in society in general has had a number of effects, both in the videogame industry and the society it influences now. Some are positive, some negative, but none of them can be overlooked or dismissed.Works cited "'Halo 2' reports $ 125 million in sales the first day." MSNBC. November 10, 2004. MSNBC. April 26, 2006 <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6456214/>. Bradbury, Ray. 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