Advantages Of Games

Everyone thinks that games are a waste of time which ruins the careers of the young minds. But, did you know that playing games comes with a list of advantages too.

Recent surveys have shown that playing a few games can actually increase the concentration potential of your child. Many children are sharp in studies but have a poor concentration. Of what use is a sharp mind which cannot concentrate on a given topic for more than five minutes? There are certain games which can actually increase the concentration and reading potential of the students.

Of all the different genres of games, racing games need a higher level of concentration. With a car racing along the game’s track at a speed of around 200MPH, a slight negligence will make your car end up struggling its way out of the footpaths. The players who play racing games hate it when the speed of the car goes crashing down to 50MPH or below. Gaining speed is a real nuisance once the speedometer needle shows a less than 50 speed. With the nitrogen cylinder empty and your opponents leaving you behind, you become highly impatient till you see them again. Such games helped a few students in increasing their reading consistency. Racing games are just a bliss and really very fun to play. These games can actually help you in decreasing your thoughts. Playing a split screen NFS knockout is still the cup of tea for many a gaming enthusiasts. Racing games are also said to bring in a sense of confidence in the mind of the player. The spirits go high whenever a player escapes by the skin of his teeth from a police pursuit in NFS Most Wanted. In depressed times winning a race is a real bliss as it livens up our ugly minds.

Next, coming to the FPS (First person shooting games). These belong to a separate niche and are widely yearned for throughout the globe. Even today many engineering students are found to play the old Mission IGI game in a very serious manner. It seems that while playing these games the gamers get involved with the leading character of the games so much, that they very closely behave like him/her many a times even in their normal lives. These games make the players think at every step. You need to progress very quickly in these games. And of course you should be quicker than the enemy with your. A little delay and you find yourself nothing better than a piece of dead meat. A small slip of your fingers and you get to see a close-up of your soldier’s mutilated body. A banner saying Game Over brings a lot of disappointment as you might need to play the game since the beginning in many cases. However certain games like Call Of Duty are more realistic and a true bliss to play. Even today, people at the Digit center play Quake3 at least once in a day. It seems that the olden games haven’t lost their fames yet. They are still popular and have many fans across the globe. These games if played alone give us an insight into the secret military operations. You get to know the responsibilities of a commander or a soldier and a feeling of patriotism runs across your veins when you accomplish an impossible mission.

Arcade games are also good to play, but the best games are the flash games. Some might say that they are designed for small children, but still there are many people in the crowds who are all so crazy about these mini games. The best thing is that they end very soon. Which means more variety. Which also means zero boredom. As also, they are the best things to pass your time with. Playing volleyball with a jumping crab is so funny to play. You find plenty of flash games on the internet. Some games will give you a game sample for a small period. Then afterwards you need to pay in order to buy the full game. Many such demo versions of games are also available in the discs provided by the technical magazines.

Internet gaming is said to be fun though I have never tried it till today. In internet games you face a wide variety of audience whom you can challenge in your favorite game. A good site where you will find many such games followed by a list of challenging players is Orangeshark.com. My cousin sister had made a record in one of its games and had asked me to crack through her score. The website is pretty good and has a good number of interesting games. The only minus point is that it fills your email-id with a huge number of mails featuring the players who are willing to challenge you. Up to a certain point this shark is really funny to play around with, but later it becomes more of a nuisance and you feel like killing it by throwing it into the spam folder. Online racing games are also becoming much popular. You might want to take a look at crazy-cart. The wheels on which you ride across the racing tracks in the game are definitely crazy carts. The tracks are so beautifully created! The trailer made me go crazy in love with this beautiful game. You would definitely like to check this one out if you are hot blooded and feel like riding strange carts as like a super fast jet.

On one side if games are beneficial, on the other side they are dangerous too. Games like GTA Vice City can make any child a criminal if the child finds the game to be a world filled with great fun. The cheat codes make the game even more interesting. You can randomly slaughter anyone in this game. In this city, you are a villain who gets different crime projects from the underworld dons. You complete the projects one by one and get paid for your work. The city is a slaughter house in the eyes of the leading character. You do anything for grabbing money in this game, which is not a good message to the futures of the society: children. Though, the creators believe that the game gives the gamers a chance to do all those illegal activities they would like to, without doing any harm to the members of the society. In my view these are the useless games which have a greater chance of posing a threat to the society. Plying such games should be avoided by small children as they are potentially harmful.

Military operations related games give us a rough idea about the various weapons that are used by the army men during wars. They teach us the tactics of using bombs, knives and other military weapons when the country is under the attack of a potentially harmful villain. At times when we are attacked by thieves, the tactics we learn in the game give us a general idea of escaping safely from such vulnerable situations. The only reason why I am support these games is because they make us feel like a patriot sometimes. We realize the effort put in by the engineers of our country for preparing such highly efficient weapons incorporating cutting edge technologies in them.

Some games improve our social behavior. There are games where you connect with each other over a LAN connection and play in unison to defeat the enemy. On the other hand games can also make a person envy his friend with regards to game performances. Racing games are also said to increase a driver’s speed on the city roads. One of my uncles started with playing racing games on the PC and ended up becoming a state level racing champion with three trophies in bike racing and two trophies in car racing under his name. Games can also change fates. A child playing a quiz game daily will have a greater enthusiasm in becoming like Sir Albert Einstein or someone likely!

Some games like chess can also help improve the capacity of a child in looking at the overall situation and taking very slow and careful steps in order to come up with the best solution for the problem he is being exposed to. Game development is a very big process and is an outcome of the immense labor and skill of hundreds of professionals. It is mainly the character creation which is the major process. The coding is done very easily as compared to the designing part. Printing your imagination on a screen requires lots of patience, skill and imagination. The first game which made people ever so crazy was Pacman! Remember, a man eating dots on the screen and escaping from the guards while doing so? Games like building blocks and snake Xenzia caught the attention of the audience a little bit later but this time on a hand held small computer which looked more like the joysticks of our gaming consoles with an inbuilt LCD screen to show the display. Today gaming consoles have taken over these gadgets of the olden times. Now we are into a world where games have become highly realistic and need a killer rig’s configuration to play them. A computer which is a power house is required to play these games. AI has improved a lot, making the characters act like real beings. All this demands more from the PC hardware.

Coming to the disadvantage part, one of the greatest disadvantages of playing games is: poor vision. Your eyesight will definitely become poor if you spend a lot of time playing games. But this has a solution too. Ever thought of the condition of the eyes of the sotware engineers which are exposed to the monitor for almost ten hours everyday. This is one of the reasons why the leading software companies do not look back to buy an LCD monitor for each PC even if it means coughing up an extra sum of five thousand rupees per computer. LCD monitors are more easy on the eye as compared to CRT monitors and hence they should be preferred over the CRT monitors by serious gamers. The game resolution is also quite good on these monitors. Which means that you can spend lots and lots of time playing games on these monitors without killing your eyes at a faster rate. The 3D glasses are also intended for people spending more than ten to twelve hours everyday with their favorite games. With all these things people are gaming a lot more than before with the help of cutting edge eye friendly technologies. Wearing reading specs while playing games is a good way for keeping yourself a bit farther from the screen. This will enlarge the screen and you will feel comfortable while looking at the screen from a farther distance. Also remember to sit in a good posture in front of your computer while playing games. This will greatly reduce your chances of having a bent spine in your mere future.

Getting addicted to games is a very big no no. A couple had got addicted to online gaming in such a manner that they did not even bother about their meals many a times. Their house had become a mere dust bin. Things were scattered all over the room. The door was left open. There was too much of sound in the house. The sound was so large that a faint voice was not being heard clearly. It was the voice of the baby which was crying inside the house. The mother had heard the child crying but did not bother much about it and thought that she would feed the child after the game would be over. But unfortunately the game was very challenging and the mother forgot about the crying baby. After playing for a long time, the mother got tired and went to sleep. The child was not crying now. The mother never remembered that she had forgotten to feed the baby. Next day when she got up, she found her child after moving the things which were lingering throughout the room. And then below a magazine she found her child which was almost dead. The couple immediately rushed the child to a nearby hospital. By the grace of god the child was alive. A trial was run against the parents regarding the negligence they had shown towards their child. Be aware not to get addicted to games on such a high level. Do not forget that it is the game of life which is more important and not the PC game.

Bigger the game, bigger is the configuration required to run it. With the release of Windows Vista we lived to see PCs demanding a bare minimum of 2GB RAM to run the OS smoothly. For hardcore gamers, gaming powerhouses which supported 4GB RAM were also on the rise. With the hardware on one side, the software was also emerging with a faster pace. We saw Directx10 drivers designed for Gaming PCs running on Vista wheels. And, of course, not to forget the NFS race between the Graphics Card manufacturers. We have also got 3D glasses taking on the show for now. All this suggests more interesting HD games in the mere future. Let us wait and see what the gaming industry will bring for the gaming enthusiasts. Till then, let us ruin our present mouse and keyboards trying to finish off the games we presently have.