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Introduction
Previously, only a couple of people knew about video games and how to play them. Since first video game was made in 1947. At that time no one was interested in these things. But nowadays, video games have become more popular than any time before. Not only young adults or teenegers have become addicted to video games, it is possible that older people also have been hooked . For this reason, this topic be worthy of doing an research about it.The specific motive of this research to detect whether video games have impact on players life or not and know the attractive things of video games.

Survey Findings
Most respondents that completed my survey were aged 18-19 (53%) which would be normal of students in the university. 98% of respondents were aged between 16 and 20, although 2% were aged 24 and above. According to the nationality of people surveyed, almost half of them were from Other Arab countries, while 40% were from Qatar and other GCC. The rest of respondents (10%) were from other countries which is slightly strong, since I am in an Arab country and Arab university. 77% of the respondents were female and only 23% were male. I was hoping that males would be more because they might have been more interested in video games.

As the survey has shown the majority of males that responded to my survey were playing video games (86%). There are different reasons for that, and the highest percentage in male’s reasons were that they like video games and found it exciting. Both of this reasons were 50%. After that there was dramatic decreased. The percentage of males who thought video games wasting their time and suitable for different ages are the same which 33%. On the other hand, the male respondents who didn’t play...

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...e it be as a “microworlds”, and “The images of these microworlds are easy to fall in love with”. This let the player to work within a self choices and artificial world.

Conclusion
In conclusion, the results of my survey were sufficient to give me plentiful information which can assist to know the impact of video games on our life. Some people think that video games could be good and improve the player’s skills. In contrary, others think that video games are bad and could cause to the player a mental harm or a physical damage. In my opinion, as a girl, I do not like video games. Even though, I tried to play them many times but I could not enjoy them like my brothers or others do. However, I’m not against playing video games, because it is a way to have fun after all, but people should be more careful about what and when they play them so they can avoid the risks.

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