Addictive Types of Video Games

With the advent of new and better technologies, video game companies have become endowed with greater abilities to create deeper, more epic, more socially interactive, and thus more addicting games.

Whereas the first-generation games previously consisted of a one block bouncing back and forth between two other blocks, modern video games have become massive productions on the visual scale of most action movies. Many video games released today have better box office openings than even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Video games are surely a new media force with which to be reckoned.

Unfortunately, video games seem to get almost entirely negative media coverage. Most articles or news stories that are speaking of video games are telling another woeful tale of a child having bought a video game with a hidden sex scene, or a teenager having shot someone after playing a violent game. More recently, video games have been getting attention as another “addictive” substance to entangle our children.

However, this addictive nature of video games does not hold true for every type of video game. Very rarely will a teenager that comes in to a treatment facility for excessive video game use because he just can’t get enough a puzzle videogame. They may have spent some time on the game, and maybe even an above average amount of time on a puzzle videogame. But, rarely will they have reached the levels of “addiction” usage. This is because puzzle games do not lend themselves to that kind of gaming habits. Thus, it becomes necessary for parents to become familiar with the different types of games available to their children, and most importantly, which games have the most potential for their child to be become addicted to them. The following is a list of the current types of video games available to children today: (The game types are listed in order of least (1) addictive to most (13) addictive types)

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