Kids and Video Games…
by Shila Schneider on Apr.07, 2014, under Love, Mrs. Schneider
Kiddos,
Here are some fun facts for you to read about video games that you might find interesting! 🙂 Remember our deal: if you post an “accelerated fourth grade” comment you will receive 5 extra points or 3 tickets! 🙂
1-The first commercially successful home video game, Pong, became available in 1975.
2-In 2013, Americans spent $21.5 billion on video games.
3-91% of kids ages 2 to 17 play video games.
4-About 60% of all Americans play video games.
5-There are more male (55%) than female (45%) gamers.
6-In 2013, teens spent an average of seven hours per week playing games on mobile devices.
7-A growing body of research suggests that playing video games can improve your ability to pay attention and make decisions.
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April 7th, 2014 on 5:13 pm
1- I never knew that there was a game called Pong. That must be a really old game if it came out in 1975.
2- That is a lot of money that we people spend in a year just for video games. I can’t imagine spending that much epically for just for video games.
3- I can’t believe that two year old’s play video games! My brother only plays a little bit of games mostly it is baseball on Wii Sports.
4- A lot of people play video games. See I only play video games like about 25min. a day and, I don’t play every day of the week.
5- That I actually knew because I found it on Yahoo on their main page. It wasn’t exactly those exact words though. It said Did you know that boys play more video games then girls?
6- Wow I can’t believe well…. I guess I can. I think when most that time is done is during recess and p.e maybe. I know that it doesn’t happen at our school.
7- I find that hard to believe because most video games are just for entertainment. Also because most people that play video games get in trouble more at school at home is where they play Video games.
April 7th, 2014 on 5:15 pm
I think it is amazing how many hours people play video games a week.It is also cool how much money people spent on video games in 2013. 91% of kids ages 2-17 play video games, that is a lot of kids.I play video games about 3-4 days a week for about a half hour, which is below average.
April 7th, 2014 on 5:30 pm
I thought it is pretty cool that most boys in the world like to play video games rather than girls. I thought that because just ask yourself “why would boys like video games better?” I think girls don’t like video games because we lose intrest so fast.
fact #5
April 7th, 2014 on 5:36 pm
I think the fact’s are very interesting and they tell a lot about the status of video games.
April 7th, 2014 on 6:29 pm
I thought that it is very cool that video games help you pay attention better and help make decisions.
April 7th, 2014 on 6:32 pm
I think that it is weird that a researcher suggests that playing video games can improve your ability to pay attention and make decisions, because I thought that video games made you the opposite of smart.
April 7th, 2014 on 7:04 pm
I actually didn’t know that playing video games actually helps you pay attention and make better choices. That is so cool!
April 7th, 2014 on 7:31 pm
it is cool to know that over half of the Americans play video games.
April 7th, 2014 on 7:33 pm
wow I can not belive that all of those facts are true!
April 7th, 2014 on 7:33 pm
When I read #7 I thought it was cool that it could help you. I also didn’t know that teens spent so much time on mobile devices.
April 8th, 2014 on 7:16 am
91% percent of kids from the age of 2-17 video games WOW.( Just imagine 2 & 3 years olds playing video games WOW).
April 8th, 2014 on 7:17 am
In between 2-17 and video I meant to put play.
April 8th, 2014 on 7:48 am
I think it is cool that video games do help with something.