Concern about violent video and computer games is based on the assumption that they contri

The increasingly realistic and exciting nature of electronic games has helped to make them enormously popular with children and youth. 79% of American children now play computer or video games on a regular basis. Children between the ages of seven and 17 play for an average of eight hours a week. Mo

First, the active role required by video games is a double-edged sword. It helps educational video games be excellent teaching tools for learning process reasons. But, it also may make violent video games even more hazardous than violent television .Second, the arrival of a new generation of ultraviolent video games and continuing unabated to the present resulted in large numbers of children actively participating in entertainment violence that went way beyond anything available to them on television or in movies.