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Every time we neared a video arcade, I begged my parents to let me play Whack-A-Mole. I am not sure if it was the hammer I got to use during the game, the joy of smacking the mole as it popped out of the board, or the adrenaline rush as the game sped up. In elementary school this was a rare treat my parents succumbed to only when we were on vacation, and I had worn them down. However, as a junior, my talent at Whack-A-Mole, took on a whole new metaphoric meaning. I was warned when I entered AP…

Video Games have always been a part of my life. When I was a child, my mom and dad bought a PS2 so my mom could exersize. She would play Dance Dance Revolution to move around, and a few other games for entertainment. Then, when I was about 5, a family at our church gave us a Wii for Christmas. It included 4 remotes and a few games. I still play these games all the time. My dad told me when he was younger, he and his family got an Atari 2600 for Christmas. He would play Yars Revenge all the time.…

acquire knowledge and experience. Just like humans, video games provide the same effect as gaining experiences through living, but in a far advanced world. In addition these precious moments are ones that cannot or is difficult to replicate in real life. The chances of being the coach of the New England Patriots are one in a billion, but with the help of video games, anyone can coach an all-star team. A common misconception of video games is its uselessness. However, scholars and researchers beg…

the public at the 1978 Summer Consumer Electronic Show as The Speak and Spell. It was a handheld electronic device and educational toy that consisted of a speech synthesizer, a fluorescent display, a keyboard, and a receptor slot for a collection of game cartridges. Additionally, its main function was a tool for helping young children to learn to spell and pronounce over 200 commonly misspelled words. As a result, this can be consider the first PC many people own because it had all those parts,…

The positive effect of video games It seem that every time mankind face problem, we naturally pass it off as it as someone else fault. It is either music, internet, video game or any other form of media that are usually the first to blame for society’s issue. The most common today, are video game. Virginia attack, bombing in Moscow, Newtown massacre, it seem like it is getting easier and easier for people to blame on video games. well it is the video game fault? let find out. but first let start…

Video Games, an ultraviolent medium of consuming mass amounts of desensitized violence, or at least this is what a lot of people like to say yet sometimes I feel this is like an old man yelling about those kids and their fancy new technology, having no respect for the old times. These new video games haven’t harmed the masses by causing America’s egregious amount of mass shooting but the scapegoat has decidedly been video games because they are a new medium and people are scared of the unholy…

to have learned from their mistakes with Triple Extreme Spin, and have decided to replace the long-serving fruit symbols in the Wheel of Fortune slots with more thematic imagery, such as landmarks and famous places. That happens to be theme of the game: imagine Wheel of Fortune doing a non-stop tour of the word, and you’ve got it in one. IGT have also gone a bit gung-ho with the special features, cramming in as many as possible into this slot. One thing remains, though. IGT is still just as…

are played by millions of people. According to the Entertainment Software Association a report was made in 2015 stating that more than 150 million Americans play video games and that forty two percent of Americans play video games regularly, or at least three hours per week. I also chose this topic because I’ve been playing video games for about ten years and because it's a relevant topic. Esports are competitive gaming events that consist of mostly tournaments played by professional gamers…

kids. However, some of the games that developers release contain violence and sexual themes which raises the question, “Should kids really be playing this?” How is the government regulating the content in video games? The government is trying to put laws in place that regulates the content in video games and who is allowed to purchase them. States such as California have tried to put these laws into action but they failed to pass (Vescera). The biggest win for the video game industry in…