Video Game Health Benefits — Let the guilt end. PositiveHealthWellness.com reports that video games are good for you.
In moderation obviously. One does need to get outside, exercise and see others face to face.
Gaming, however, has been shown to provide benefits in overcoming dyslexia, improving memory, making one a faster decision maker and even building social skills, according to the website.
The article can be found here.
As an aside, we can think of one business back in the ’90s that encouraged its workers to play Solitaire to learn mouse skills and to become familiar with the computer.
Video Game Health Benefits
“Gaming, however, has been shown to provide benefits in overcoming dyslexia, improving memory, making one a faster decision maker and even building social skills, according to the website.”
Yeah, but I’m curious to know how traditional board games measure up to digital games, on those same points. I think they probably provide the same benefits, without the bombardment of visual images that can have a bad effect in the long run. And I mean games ranging from Monopoly, or Scrabble, to checkers and chess, and everything in between.
A good video game is like reading a very good book, watching a very good movie and playing an interesting game of chess all at once.
Please keep working on it Brad and let us know what you find out.