Video game content rating system

Video Gaming Introduction Since my parents were always working, I had no one to take care of me at this young age so my dad would drop me off at my cousin’s house every morning. As a young kid little did I know about the world of art, graphics, storyboards, and all the other things associated with video games. When my cousin came home from school it was his duty to entertain me and one day he introduced me to his Nintendo 64. Yup, one of the greatest video gaming consoles of all time that…

This paper will discuss the negative and positive effects that playing video games has on children. The general consensus among the American public on the issue of video games and children is that video games are necessarily bad for children because of various reasons some of which have been substantiated by relevant research and some which have no real basis. The most vocal point against the use of video games by children is attributed to the amount of violence they contain. According to…

side-dashing, Advanced Warfare by Sledgehammer Games. Call of Duty games filled with violence, and realistic environment. That heat of the moment when someone is trying to get a kill – increases the hype of people. Call of Duty has always been at the top of the list when looking for a shooter game. Sledgehammer Games sold over 24 million copies of Advanced Warfare worldwide and a total of 252.7 million of the whole franchise itself (StatisticBrain.com). Shooter games has become widely known,…

PEA #2 I was not able to observe a childhood setting but I watched a video on youtube, the place the observation took place was called Sunrise Playground Playtime. The children that were being observed were around the ages of five or six years old. There were girls and boys being observed in the video. The six play categories are Unoccupied play, Solitary play, Onlooker play, Parallel play, Associative play, and Cooperative play. The observation was taken outside on a playground there were…

Since Steve Rodgers was asleep for the past 70 years, there were a lot of events and new things that he missed out on. There are a lot of things that he would have wanted to witness, not only as a superhero/savior of America, but as an individual. He missed out on a lot of new things and events such as new technology, advanced military weapons/equipment, and world tragedies. There has been a numerous amount of technological advancements that Steve Rodgers would have wanted to catch up on,…

truth. The Wii only has certain games like baseball and Just Dance that make them work out. Their most popular games like Super Smash Bros Brawl don’t involve physical activity, just the moving of their fingers. Second is that the Wii is incredibly outdated, it's been about ten years since it came out. That means that the Wii is almost a decade old. This means that people are guided more to get new systems that involve not physical activity. Another reason is that games make gamers more happy in…

right place. This game isn’t much more different from its predecessor’s games but is loved by the players for the reason that it makes you available lots of fun and entertainment. What is this game all about? This game is all about a huge ball and a vehicle i.e. rocket powered vehicle. The size of the vehicle is smaller than balls you need to hit in the game to score. The goal is to push the ball towards a specified region i.e. opponent’s goal area and you will score this way. This game somewhat…

Parental Block As time goes on it seems that the content in media gets worse and worse, and with such easy access to multiple media platforms, it's understandable that parents are afraid of what their children have access to without them knowing. Especially television since there's almost no restrictions on what type of content can be showed, in movies or in tv shows, and there's also no way to stop or monitor the programs one's family can have access to, except with parental block, but is…

I was almost alarmed when I began noticing the other activities that other children found their happiness through sports, video games, gossip, things that just didn’t apply to me. I couldn’t quite grasp what these other children were so fascinated in but I started to judge myself because all I really did was play legos I mean, how odd is that? Of course this is was my mindset…

Nowadays, video games are a very debatable topic, due to it’s stereotypical gore and violence. Some people criticize gaming, for its appearance, saying gaming is sexist, and is a negative influence on children. Others defend video games, saying that it can help people relieve stress and become critical thinkers. We chose this topic because both of us enjoy gaming, but not to the extent that we will fail for it. Our goal was to see if video games actually had an effect on people’s…