Video Games Effects On Society

The age of rocket science is endured by a society that is full of lies and delusions, where fairy tales whisper among the people a story of a power that human beings receive from technology, the ability to escape their unpleasant reality by creating another living dimension, a virtual world of video gaming. Deceptions about the American Dream with sports car dyed with glamor and townhouse painted with prosperity direct the life of every individual. Chasing after the glory of those great expectations drowns people in the ocean of pressures and relentless depressions. In order to escape the cruel reality for the desirable life mankind desperate, video gaming is created as a new hope for the modern world. The rule to play the game of life is as …show more content…
Because the magnificence of gaming created by the “magic” of technology is originally a response to the society that is full of struggles, it is, therefore, denounced to be on the same level of accusation as drug addiction. However, with substantial developments in gameplay enhancements and visual interactions, video gaming is not merely a utopia for dreamers anymore but as well becomes the alternative choice for everybody to explore and experience. Gaming bypasses its original image of unhealthy distraction and violent promotion, gradually accomplishing marvelous achievements in contribution to many aspects of society. Comparing to a few addictive and violent downfalls, the unprecedented yet astounding impacts of gaming to individual and society are another evidence for the significance of technology to human life. Video game builds the world where dreams come true, for individuals who seek shelter from the melancholy reality, where opportunity helps express personal ability beyond the barrier of limitation and a possibility of applications that one day can save even the real …show more content…
Our artistic society paints the desire of materialism with golden yellow, the glory of reputation with crimson red and the dream of pleasure with optimistic turquoise. However, the only actual color we are allowed to use is grey and its shades. The pale picture of a subway train heading home in the rush hours is usually sketched with exhaustion under the lifeless tones of pressure and apathy. Even though there are newspapers, novel books, even fashion magazines available, under the tensions of sluggish after-work time all will eventually end up with tedium. The monotonous “movie” goes on until a sudden opening sound of a Nintendo DS, a portable gaming device, which signals the presence of technology from decades of science development and invention. The appearance of a Nintendo does not change any color of the person’s reality but instead, paints the picture of another world for that individual to vanish into. However, this “reality escaping” solution becomes controversial with the majority of criticisms and prejudices that are piling up against the popularization of video game and further development of the virtual world. A few decades of computer science are not enough to persuade the predominant parts of society to deny the fact that gaming whisks people away from the real world. There are confident