Video Games: Making People Better at Stuff Since 1972

Can you believe there are people in the world who don't play video games? Crazy right?  Even more ridiculous is that there are people who actually criticize video games as a  whole, saying they're bad for you. BAD FOR YOU?! These Negative Nancies (I apologize for  anyone named Nancy who takes offense at use of the term; then again, you're proving the  moniker true by not lightening up about it) see video games as little more than toys for kids that provide no actual benefit to the players in the real world. I'm here to let you  know just how wrong they are.

VIDEO GAMES MAKE YOUR BRAIN SMARTERER. This has been proven time and time again by  researchers around the world. At the Deakin University in Australia a study of 53  children between the ages of 3 and 6 showed that kids who play interactive games have  better motor skills. A study of introducing games to non-gamers in Singapore resulted in an improvement in cognitive skills in those who specifically played action games. Here in the US, the university of Rochester has done several tests throughout the years showing that playing video games can have a wide range of positive effects, including but not  limited to: improved spatial resolution, enhanced contrast sensitivity, and overall better mental processes. Essentially, when the first wave of Deadites attack it will be the gamers who survive, while most others will end up on the receiving end of The Giving Tree.

Now some will say that better vision and hand eye coordination isn't such a big deal; That video games can't help you do anything physical or important. Those people need a swift jumping roundhouse kick to the throat from this man:

Professional MMA Fighter Uriah Hall, in a fightland.com profile video, stated that many of his main influences for his fighting technique were developed from hours spent playing  TEKKEN. Hall would watch the moves repeatedly until they were ingrained in his psyche,  master them in training, and unleash them on poor hapless fools as seen in the incredible video below:



We can only hope that during the inevitable invasion by extra-dimensional fighting war animals, Earth's champions will have the video game inspired creativity to claim victory in the space-kumite.

If any more evidence is necessary that video games can make you awesome look no
further than GT Academy.



A few years ago Nissan teamed up with Sony and Polyphony Digital to showcase the effects of mastering the Driving Simulator Gran Turismo. There was a theory that if you were good enough at the amazingly realistic driving in the game then you could be good enough to race cars for real; And they were right. Several of their graduates have gone on to professional racing careers, some being TOO GOOD to race with non-gaming drivers. Odds are that after the last radioactive Zombrony has died, and the dystopian mutates of the future try to cobble together what is left of their humanity after a Nuclear Brolocaust, its going to be expert video game-bred drivers ruling the dilapidated roadways in hodge podge Max-Maxian Death Vehicles.

In Conclusion, I believe I've made it completely clear that THE MEGAPOCALYPSE IS GOING TO HAPPEN, AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE SOMETHING SIMPLE LIKE ZOMBIES OR ALIENS, IT'S GOING TO BE A FUCKING PERFECT STORM OF WEIRD HORRIBLE SHIT:

You've been warned.