Can computer games have detrimental influence? I think yes.

Although
we can get benefits from playing computer game, it will also have
detrimental influence to us, for example increases violent and aggressive
behavior. Teenagers who spend a lot of time in playing computer games may
get a high risk to have problems with violent and aggressive behavior. This is
because video games that feature violent actions and scenarios may lead
addicted players to develop aggressive thoughts and tendencies after
playing computer games with violent contents. They are hard to separate
real life from imaginary first person gaming experience when they become
engrossed in first person computer games. They might turn this kind of
aggressive thinking into action and make a wrong decision in real life.
Besides, computer games may also have bad effects on our health. An
addicted player spends most of free time in playing computer games and
causes skips meals or loses sleep because of excessive computer game
playing. Sitting in front of a computer for prolonged periods may create some
health problems from poor body positioning, or from the position of the
computer and screen. It might lead to obesity, myopia, muscular, skeletal
and postural disorders, video-induced seizures, nerve compression and
numbness in hands, elbows and shoulders.
Additionally, computer games will cause preoccupation. A video game
addiction can be harmful if your child is unable or unwilling to participate in
any interests or extracurricular activities other than gaming. The On-Line
Gamers Anonymous website notes that it may be a sign of an addiction if
your child is constantly thinking about his next video game session, devising
ways to get back to the game, abandoning former hobbies that dont relate
to video games or declining social events with personal interaction because
he's spending time discussing video games on the Internet. In conjunction to
that, computer games will cause poor academic performance. This is one of
the serious effects of video games on teens. Playing long hours of video
games can affect your teens performance in school. If your teen spends
more than two hours gaming, then he may have trouble falling asleep and
paying attention in school. Video game addicts also skip their homework to
play games, leading to a downfall in their grades.
I think computer games should be regulated. The reality of computer
games is that mostly children play them. These days a sad reality is that you
cannot rely on a parent to do what's right for their child. So computer games
should be regulated so as not to allow extremely violent games to be given
to young, impressionable children. These images can be engrained in a
childs mind and desensitize them to commit similar acts themselves.
Moreover, teenagers who playing computer games will get addicted to it
and this will cause them cannot manage their time properly. They may
neglect to carry out their own primary responsibilities as students, such as
study. Thus, this results in lower academic performance. For your
information, computer games are the most popular entertainments in
modern societies and they target a variety of people in different ages. So, it
will affect children health. Children will lack of Vitamin D, Vitamin D is
commonly absorbed from exposure to sunlight. Unfortunately, being holed
up in front of video games system does not afford the same exposure to
sunlight.

Due to the creation of gaming industry associations, a ratings system

was adopted. In some U.S. states and in other countries, laws have
stipulated who should have access to violent computer games, punishable by
fines or incarceration. Computer gaming is also one of the rare areas of
human-computer interaction where there has been a U.S. Supreme Court
ruling. While that ruling upheld the First Amendment right to freedom of
speech over the State of Californias attempt to restrict the sale of certain
games to minors, the gaming industry has voluntarily developed a code of
marketing with regard to young people. The goal here is to review the
literature and policies related to violence in computer gaming, provide a
description of the various policy approaches that have taken place, and
propose an HCI-oriented intervention to increase awareness of the
relationship between violent games and aggressive behavior.
Besides, restrict sales should be provided. In 2011, the Supreme Court
decided Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association by upholding a Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals decision that invalidated a California law prohibiting
the sale of violent games to minors. The Supreme Court and every prior
federal court that has considered the issue, with only a few exceptions, have
held that video games enjoy full First Amendment protection and that state
efforts to regulate them must therefore survive strict scrutiny.
Another way to overcome this problem, teenagers should arrange a daily
timetable to limit the time of playing computer games. Besides, teenagers
should force themselves strictly follow the timetable. Otherwise, it is no use
to set a timetable. This problem also can be overcome by replacing your
gaming time-slots with physical sports. Do anything to get your mind and
body active. For example: boxing, basketball, or baseball. Otherwise, find
something else to do, such as scheduling activities with friends and finding a
job temporary or permanent job.
Should the responsibility for game playing be primarily the
responsibility of parents? I believe that many of you have the same questions
and different opinion about this topic. In my opinion, yes. I agree that parents
have the most responsibility to avoid all the tragedies that influenced by
virtual games.
For the first point, the main reason that I agree parents have the
primarily responsibility in avoiding their kids influence by the virtual game is
parents are the one who accompany their kids the most. This is due to the
reason that parents are living with their children, so they should have the
most time to observe the behaviour of their kids. Kids are defined as human
that immature and cannot think properly as the world is still strange and new
for them. Hence, parents, who were the closest and nearest to them, must
have the responsibility to inculcate a good idea to the children. Parents have
to spend more time on them, but unfortunately most of the parents
nowadays spent a lot of time in working, they dont even know if their
children have a wrong and negative mind as they put more concentration on
their jobs and works. Sometimes, children may think that if they do some
improper action, maybe they will get the attention from their parents.
Therefore, parents should balance up their time between works and family to
avoid any unhappy things happened.
Moreover, the second reason that I agree that parents should have the
primarily responsible in this case is because parents are the one who giving
children money to buy for it or the parents are the one who buy those virtual
games that content violence to their children. They should actually stop
buying those games that contain violent issues as the children may copy
their action as well. Children cannot differentiate whether the action that
played in the video is good or bad , they may even thought that doing those
action will be given reward in the reality . We can easily read many news
about children cannot differentiate between in reality and in virtual games so
they think that is nothing wrong to do some violence action to his friends,
neighbours and even their family members. Thus , I think that if those
tragedy happened , one of the important reason will be parents are the one
who buy those virtual game for them and they dont know how to control
themselves.
Furthermore, the third reason that I agree that parents should have the
primarily responsibility to avoid those cases happened are parents should
teach them to play in a right way. Parents must ensure their children play in
public area so that they can observe children easily. Remembering that you
are a role model for your children including which video games you play and
how long you play them. Parents should do the role model to their children
so that children will follow their good behaviour but not bad behaviour.
Actually, in my opinion, communication is very important .Parents should
always communicate with them and know them better .Therefore, parents
should have the primarily responsibility as they are responsible to
communicate and teach their children the proper way to play virtual games.
In a nutshell, parents play an important role to prevent violence scenario
of children caused by violence games. It doesn't mean that parent have to
stop children from playing games. However, parent need to monitor their
children's games content. They should make up their children's mind that
which games content violence and teach them not to learn from the games.
Games is just for fun. Children just want to have fun. If parent are doing their
jobs to monitor their children, it will be a win-win situation. It will improve the
relationship between the families while they are playing games. Children will
be also educated by their parent about the games content.