# Video-Game Killing Builds Visual Skills, Researchers Report.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-killing-builds-visual-skills-researchers-report/178370>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 29, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-killing-builds-visual-skills-researchers-report/178370 "2003-05-29T21:22:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-killing-builds-visual-skills-researchers-report/178370/1 "2003-05-29T21:22:17Z")

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In [this](http://www.cnn.com/linkto/nyt/story/3.0529.html) article, it would appear that all those hours of playing Unreal Tournament or your FPS of choice have paid off. Have _you_ felt any more aware since you spent hours a day playing these types of games?

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**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-killing-builds-visual-skills-researchers-report/178370/2 "2003-05-29T21:25:55Z")

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Paid off in one respect, taken away much much more in every other. 😃

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**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-killing-builds-visual-skills-researchers-report/178370/3 "2003-05-29T22:35:02Z")

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Can’t focus… vision stuck at 1 foot depth perception…

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**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-killing-builds-visual-skills-researchers-report/178370/4 "2003-05-30T00:19:01Z")

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As we speak I am e-mailing that Article to my mother. For years (well 2 really) she told me that my dedication to Unreall was unheathty and way to violent. I need to play that somemore, i feel my visual thing-a-jig slipping

::Runs off tosounds of “Die bitch” and explostions::

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**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-killing-builds-visual-skills-researchers-report/178370/5 "2003-05-30T02:11:02Z")

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Maybe we should start having kids play Doom and Half-Life in school? 🙂

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**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-killing-builds-visual-skills-researchers-report/178370/6 "2003-05-30T11:08:59Z")

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What? You can’t be serious, **Gassendi**. Imagine the horrors: all those kids being dragged to the computer screen, screaming that they want to play baseball and read the Bible and recite poetry instead of committing random acts of violence with BGF’s on collections of pixels and vertices. 😉

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**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-killing-builds-visual-skills-researchers-report/178370/7 "2003-05-30T15:55:52Z")

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I cut that article out and put it up on our fridge at home. I agree–for me, it has done plenty for my reaction time and hand-eye coordination and stuff.