Response to John Hamilton's "Quick write-video games".

After reading John Hamilton's post, I thought that he had a good point. I agree with his point, and one remarkable quote I found was the following:

so overall i do feel like video games has an effect on this world. but it truly all depends on ho you look at that game , who is playing that  game and why was that game made for. The most important part about playing video games is to play them not let them play you.

I am not a gamer, I don't spend hours and hours playing videogames. I do play videogames but they are not an addiction to me. I usually play videogames twice or three tines a week, just for a few hours. I know people who would spend hours playing and playing without stopping; people like my brother. I agree that videogames are a great influence for young kids and also for the older ones. Videogames can be good or bad, and that is what influences kids.
Like John mentioned, violent videogames such as war games or games about killing or stealing are a bad influence for kids. The reason why is because kids have minds that don't think mature. Kids do anything they want, they repeat or do wjaever someone else does. Wen they see something in a videogames, they're likely to go try it out in real life, and it can be things such as hitting someone, or stealing because they saw it in the videogame. On the other hand, videogames can also be good. Nof all videogames are bad; videogames about racing or sports are examples of good games. Games that rather than giving a bad influence, help the kids be more active and think better.
In general, videogames make a big impact in society. Videogames have taken over the kids' minds and time. For example, the number of kids playing outside at a park was much larger 20 years ago than it is now. Kids now a days, they spend most of their time inside of their house playing videogames. It is a huge distraction.
It is not only a distraction, but it is slowly becoming one of the big causes of kids becoming overweight. Now that every kid has a videogame, they spend more time sitting down, and less time outside exercising. A lot of kids excercise as much as they play videogames but over time, videogame might take over and more kids will play in rather than out.
Videogames male a big difference in society and the biggest contributors in specific are the young kids. At young ages, kids don't know the concequences of playing videogames for so long, they just love to sit down and play.
I wonder if one day videogames will become real...