Overdoing video games can affect important stuff, like friendships, and how well a kid does in school. Most of the bad effects of video games are blamed on the violence they contain. Children who play more violent video games are more likely to have increased aggressive thoughts, feelings, and how they act. Video games are bad for us people.

       Playing video games too much leads to bad eyesight.Video games lead to bad eyesight because too much exposure to blue light at night can be disruptive to sleep rhythms, it’s best to limit game playing to daylight hours. In addition to increasing the risk of computer eye syndrome, excessive video game use can cause eye discomfort, focusing problems, blurry vision and headaches (“Do Video GAmes Hurt Your Eyes?”, 2015). 

        Video games are bad for us because it doesn’t keep our body healthy and if you spend too much time playing video games you could develop a gaming disorder. Video games are a huge disorder because it doesn’t do anything for you in life and it doesn’t give you things that you need.The World Health Organization defines a gaming disorder as “a pattern of gaming behavior characterized by impaired control over gaming, increasing priority given over other activities to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other interests and daily activities, and continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences” (The Signal, 2018).

          Playing video games has been shown to decrease people’s ability to concentrate and it is not good for the brain.Scientists have collected and summarized studies looking at how video games can shape our brains and behavior. Research to date suggests that playing video games can change the brain regions responsible for attention and visuospatial skills and make them more efficient. The researchers also looked at studies exploring brain regions associated with the reward system, and how these are related to video game addiction (“Video Games Change Your Brain”, 2017).

        In summary, playing video games too much leads to bad eyesight, video games are bad for us because it doesn’t keep our body healthy, and playing video games has been shown to decrease people’s ability to concentrate and it is not good for the brain. However, Some people may argue about how videogames are good for you because it is entertaining and fun, but actually video games don’t help you in life and it doesn’t keep you healthy “AT ALL”.In other words, Video games can damage your brain with all the violent games like call of duty, apex legends, and more. Video games can also damage your eyes because all of the blue light that you are staring at for hours and hours.