Ever since I can remember, I have been playing video games. Growing up playing Tetris and Super Mario Brothers was a great part of my past and I strongly believe that video games have sort of "shaped" who I am today. I once was asked, "Do you think that video games effect behavior in children?". I immediately responded, "yes" because I am living proof. My brother being about five years older than me would always be buying violent video games when I wasn't allowed to, like Grand Theft Auto and Halo. Even though my parents frowned upon these games, I would still be locked up in my brothers room for hours playing these games. In the game Grand Theft Auto, you play as a mafia member who goes around putting hits on people, stealing cars, and basically everything that you were taught was wrong. Now I wouldn't say that I am a trigger happy mafia member trying to go on a heist, but sometimes I can get a bit aggressive and I have these video games to put the blame on. Even though these games were a lot of fun to play, there were also other games that I enjoyed that were quite educational that I played. For example, I owned this game called "Math Blasters"where you needed to solve math problems in order to be save from meteors that are flying toward your ship. Today, I would say that my strongest subject would be math and this is one game that I can reflect upon and correlate it with. So even though there are violent video games out in the gamer community, there are also educational games.
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