Imagine you are a parent reading quietly in a room, then you hear screaming and it stops coming from your child's room. Normally a well-behaved child will scream and scream after losing a game in Call of Duty and you are wondering why he is behaving this way. What you may not realize is that the violent video game may be influencing his behavior. The effects of violent video games on young people have devastating effects on them. These effects can range from violent behavior to acting out in school and perhaps even crime. The games you guys play might be more violent than you can imagine. Call of Duty, one of the leading first-person shooter games, is all about war and killing the enemy. Grand Theft Auto, a big seller among teenagers, is a game focused on gangs and crime. Parents may not always read the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board) which shows what types of martial arts are contained in the game such as: drug use, violence, sexual references, etc. To understand violent video games we need to know how video games came to be. . The original video games started out as very heavy, very expensive machines. These machines date back to 1948 and were called cathode ray tube entertainment devices (A Brief History of Video Games (Part I)). In 1972 Ralph Bear, also known as the "father of video games", invented a game console called Odyssey (A Brief History of Video Games (Part I)). This system may have been designed so that people could play video games on their television. Also in 1972, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari and created the arcade game pong; which was released in a home version in 1974 (A Brief History of Video Games (Part I)). Later other companies arose and brought games like Pac-man and Donkey Kong.......middle of paper...that's what age group that game is aimed at. Don't be irresponsible because violent video games can make your child become violent. Works Cited A Brief History of Video Games (Part I) - Safwat Saleem. prod. Ted Ed. Perf. Medium invader. Youtube.com. Np, 13 August 2013. Web. 11 December 2013. Norcia, Andrea. “Parents and Teachers: The Impact of Video Games.” Parents and teachers: the impact of video games. Palo Alto Medical, nd Web. November 14, 2013. Sohn, Emily. "Violence in Video Games; Playing Violent Video Games Can Have Harmful Effects on the Brain." Science News for Kids, January 24, 2007: 0,n/a. ProQuest. Network. November 14, 2013. Video games and young people." Harvard Health Publications. The Harvard Mental Health Letter 10 2010 ProQuest.Web. November 28, 2013 What is the psychological effect of violent video games on children? (June 28, 2011). Targeted News Service Extracted from