Are some games better than for your health?

1.       Many computer games are educational, providing solutions to some of the health challenges of today. For example the game Darfur is dying shows the violence that is happening in the Sudan, in the hope that it will raise  and stop the deaths due to war and hunger. The game water alert seeks to help poor villages get clean drinking water. The game remission is about a battle deep into the human body to destroy cancer cells.

2.      Some computer video games have a positive health impact on young people as they help to improve one’s literacy. Such games are difficult and frustrating, requiring a great deal of patience in order for the player to succeed. One such game is the PlayStation II game, lord of rings the two towers which requires a lot of time and trying in order to progress past the first level. It requires one to learn many different skills in order to understand and gain knowledge of the game. This includes the ability to not only see what one’s character is doing on the screen, figure out where one needs to go and how to get there, but to actually read the text within different screen shots in order to learn how to play. Playing video games such as lord of the rings the two towers  provides the opportunity to learn a new form of literacy. Visual literacy gained by the viewing and understanding of images, symbols and graphs is important for gaining a level of literacy in today’s society. Video games such as the lord of the rings  provide visual literacy skills, reading skills as well as eye-to-hand skills in order to navigate the game.

3.      Some games often show women in need of rescue who are always with men . At the same time very few girls play computer games. While this may be true in some video games, there are games on the market today that women in a power position, such as with Lara croft tomb raider.