Before starting the article, you should know what particularly video games are. ‘a game played by electronically manipulating images’ –definition by oxford. Basically video games are those games which are played in Arcade, Console, Computer (PC) or mobile. Era of video game was started in mid of 20th century. Many developers like Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann build games in this era.

There are two side of everything in this world, a good side and a bad side as said ‘Ek sikke ke do pehalu hote hai’ means there are two sides of a coin. There are many Pros and Cons of Video Games. Listed are the Pros:-

Video game is a simple way of teaching us. It increases our intrest in something that we find boring, like farming, some of us find (Not me, honestly) boring but there are many games which bring interest to farming.

Some of the video games teach us the life skill such as delegate, work as a team, and prioritize. We can collaborate with the real life friends and work as a team work to complete a task given by game.

Games also help us to solve problem in real life also. Such as some video games teaches us the value of patience (The most common: - Loading of Game 🤣). Patience helps us to solve life problem more effortlessly.

Exercise is very much important in one’s life. Some of the games like Pokemon Go helps us to exercise through giving us pokemon in a distant. This helps the player to go to every places and through that his exercise is also complete. (Although there is a con also, this game can be dangerous. Describe a situation, you are in a balcony. The pokemon showed in the screen is in the edge of the balcony. So now you know what would be the consequences. So play video games with alertness.)

Video games freshens our mind whenever we feel sad or unhappy.

Video games such as Aeroplane games help us to explore the cockpit which bring interest in being a pilot and helps a beginner to know more about cockpit.

As told above, everything has both side. That’s why with the good side, video games also have bad sides. Listed are the cons:-

Violent games such as shooting games can make us violet (That’s why I don’t play shooting games. And you should not also play violent games. It would not show short term impact but can be effective in long term)

Some of the games can be so much addictive that it may also give effect to your academic career. Not only academic career but it can also give effect to your relationship with family members and your friends and it is not good.

Video games are a good way to interact with friends when they are far from each other. But video games can also prevent us from meeting with each other. Communicating with friends in real life has another level of happiness.

See, I am not preventing you to play video games but it is also important to play video games for a limited time period. Spend some time with your family and friends and enjoy your life. It totally depends on you whether you want to play video game keeping in mind the pros and cons of video games or not.