It has recently come to my attention that not enough people understand how great video games has been to our lives. Each day we wake up and likely have one or more video games lying at the foot of our beds. It is wonderful to be able to wake up and smile each morning because of this.
Social & Cultural Factors
video games has a large role in American Culture. Many people can often be seen taking part in activities associated with video games. This is partly because people of most ages can be involved and families are brought together by this. Generally a person who displays their dislike for video games may be considered an outcast.
Economic Factors
It is not common practice to associate economics with video games. Generally, video games would be thought to have no effect on our economic situation, but there are in fact some effects. The sales industry associated with video games is actually a 2.3 billion dollar a year industry and growing each year. The industry employs nearly 150,000 people in the United States alone. It would be safe to say that video games play an important role in American economics and shouldn't be taken for granted.
Environmental Factors
After a three month long research project, I've been able to conclude that video games doesn't negatively effect the environment at all. A video games did not seem to result in waste products and couldn't be found in forests, jungles, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc... In fact, video games produced some positive effects on our sweet little nature.
Political Factors
Oh does video games ever influence politics. Last year 5 candidates running for some sort of position used video games as the primary topic of their campaign. A person might think video games would be a bad topic to lead a campaign with, but in fact with the social and environmental impact is has, this topic was able to gain a great number of followers. These 5 candidates went 4 for 5 on winning their positions.
Conclusion
video games seem to be a much more important idea that most give credit for. Next time you see or think of video games, think about what you just read and realize what is really going on. It is likely you under valued video games before, but will now start to give the credited needed and deserved.
Footnotes
video games researched in wikipedia. video games @ dictionary.com
