Lock Your PSP, Play Hide-and-seek?

Lock Your PS3, Play Hide-and-seek?
Is Traditional Games More Useful than Modern Games in Developing Children’s Skills?
Obviously, modern game becomes major entertainment for today’s children. Games designers are trying their best to improve modern game’s devices, at the same time; some people insist that those traditional games are necessarily superior to modern games in terms of developing children’s skills. I am afraid I cannot agree with this opinion. In many different fields, we can see computer games and video games, the most popular modern games, are helping or training children to improving their skills in different ways.
First of all, help care, education and computer industry already used modern games to develop children’s skill. PC games and video games are used to do something which traditional games cannot do in therapy field. As a matter of fact, computer and video games may substantially contribute towards children’s mental and emotional growth, in many ways. The therapeutic benefits that pc games or video games can recover some teenage patients suffering from memory loss have scientifically confirmed that these games activate certain parts of the brain. The other critical evidence is in the research of Fernando et al. (2012) found “ED and impulse control disorder (a kind of mental disease) patients feel comfortable using such a video game (usability over 85%)”. The next, computer games and video games could be the first interest in people’s childhood. Many children’s initial experience with a computer actually occurs with the game software that runs on that device. Most players do not want simple and short games; as a result, game designers face a same problem as educators: how to attract people to start and learn...

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...g toy for both children and adults, more than a route to computer literacy, video games are important because they let people participate in new worlds. They let players think, talk, and act—they let players inhabit—roles otherwise inaccessible to them” (David, Richard, Kurt, & James, 2005).The last but not less, more and more experts and game companies do the research about how to use video games to improve students skills. They create thousands of apps to help children learn multiple skills in modern games.
In summary, modern games are not only a kind of entertainment, but also, there are a kind of training, treating, and studying. Traditional games cannot tech children in such more, even though they have their advantages. I believe, to set rules and limitations to prevent children from getting addicted to games rather than relegating all PS3s to locked drawers.