How Does Playing Games Affect the Mind?

How does playing games affect the mind? Well in general there is so much to talk about games. From the History of games, to the vast variety of games in America! I mean think about it, you have to have played at least some sort of game, but first I need to not get ahead of myself and first get your more informed on the history of gamin in America! How did games come to America? Good question let us start off from the roots, before games even came to America. Dating back at least 2300 B.C Greeks, Japanese, Chinese and even Romans were know to be playing risk games for amusement. Let us review the sort of games these countries played. Greeks and Romans, they both had some sort of coliseum were they pit people against each other to fight to the death. Just like a sport, like present day MMA, Wrestling, Boxing, Karate, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Aikido, and other physical combat sports. So as you can see games were definitely involved in Greek and Roman culture. Let us move on, what about China and Japan. The ancient Chinese game of “GO” is a strategy game much more in common with Chinese checkers then it is with chess! Yes the earliest report’s of Chinese playing this game is 548 B.C! As you can see games have been involved in Chinese culture! Okay now let us talk about Japanese games! Sumo wrestling dates back to 250-552 A.D. Almost 2000 years ago, obviously Japanese have been playing games for awhile! All these games that we have talked about, Go, Sumo Wrestling, Physical combat sports all are ancient games played by people so long ago so there has to be a reason why they play these games! Well get to that later were still on the history of gaming, so calm down. Let us move on to how gaming came to America! Okay so we know the roots...

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...s. One strong example is flappy bid! Remember how happy you were when you passed the first stupid pole thing! That sense of achievement! Now let us talk about the recreation theory. You ever think in life, you know what would be cool is if I got married today? What if I did this in real life where would I be? Well that’s what recreation is for. You play games like Sims. You play a life of a in game person and do what you want to do in your life. You basically redo your life or “recreate” it and make this in game person’s life awesome! Well you see people in this game feel happy doing something they might not be ever able to do. Like being able to be a thief in a game because you know in real life you would never do such a thing. Have you ever wanted to be a really fit person? Well in the game you can, so why not? See this is how recreation games appeal to people!