Video Games and Health Myths
For years now, we’ve heard nothing but “video games are bad for your health”.
Playing makes you obese, other games make some kids violent, ah the negative list goes on forever.
Well now I just read an article that shuts that all down.
There is a new game called Re-Mission put out by company in Palo Alto, CA. The game sounds really cool. There is this “nanobot” (which is like a microscopic robot) who is a hot chick and she travels through your body killing off the cancer cells.
According to the Washington Post, the game has already started to produce measurable results.
UPI.com stated the following “A trial of 375 cancer patients, all young adults aged 13 to 29, showed that those who played the Re-Mission game adhered to their treatment protocol more closely and maintained higher levels of the treatment drugs in their blood, the report said. They also showed an ability to better understand their disease and they showed more confidence that they could beat it.”
You can check out the full story here: Re-Mission Game
So now that we all know that video games are actually GOOD for your health, let’s make some money playing them!
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June 5th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
The video games help reduce stress and take the negatives off our mind. It is quite obvious you will have a longer life playing video games if you eat healthy and get some exercise. The people who let commit violent acts just get the ideas not the will to actually go through with it. So they should consider where this will came from? Bad family life? Depression? Hell maybe even having a lonely life. The point is these violent acts from video games carry more weight in the blame then they should.
If a person is going to do something crazy, it is because they were crazy before not after they played the game. The game to make a person commit a violent let’s just say in a metaphor. The metaphor is they just learn how to aim the gun not pull the trigger. They are gonna pull the trigger anyone and someone is gonna get hurt.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:58 am
people need to realize that video games are now aproaching the fourth decade and that they are not going away like may other things that have been historicly deemed bad for US… well its time to realize as consumers we need to speak up or collectily we need to start publishing our own games with our histories… and guess what not all of our history is about fighing EVIL… some times is cleaning yr bed room or making funny faces… I like games with ninjas and lots of punching and kicking…. but do I feel the need to go out in the street and do just that… no I do not. Its call carthisis… and some times I like to press buttons because they are just so many f***ing buttons to press.
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Yeah I agree games aren’t bad for you, it’s just ignorant people who never played a video game in their life “cough my parents cough” who seem to think it “rots your brain” or “totally stupid”.
Heck I’ve played a lot last year and I mean a lot and when I went to see an eye doctor my vision actually improved and that without me doing anything that I can think of to improve it.
Also I’m a pretty addicted woman gamer I just love the feeling that I get when I buy that new game for my PS2 or GC and pop it in, it feels good, and how can something that feels good be bad for you?