DISADVANTAGES

OF PLAYING
MOBILE GAMES
AGGRESIVE
BEHAVIOUR
HIGH COST
 GREAT
ADDICTION
 NEGATIVE
EFFECTS
ON SOCIALLZATION
DISPROPORTIONATE
IMAGE OF THE
WOMAN'S BODY
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P Y G
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G E
ENHANCE
MEMORY
 IMPROVE
ATTENTION AND
CONSENTRATION
IMPROVE
SOCIAL
SKILLS
 IMPROVE
PROBLEM-
SOLVING SKILLS
IMPROVE
THE
BRAIN
SPEED
HEATH
PROBLEM
OF PLAYING MOBILE GAMES
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Associated discomforts with
the neck, hand, wrist or
forearm, became known as
“Nintendinitis” or “Nintendo
neck” or “Nintendo wrist” etc.
A r s e
b a o
the authors found no
association between a
variety of violent games
and subsequent
aggression.
P r g d
i s o
A child who
consistently ignores
school work in
preference to gaming
is likely to fall behind.
SCARY
STORY
BASED ON TRUE STORY
 Gamers often become so addicted to MMORPGs that
they lose all sense of reality. Both Qiu Chengwei and
Zhu Caoyuan were heavily invested into the Legend of
Mir 3, a game which features avatars using giant
broadswords. Chengwei and Caoyuan jointly won a
rare Dragon Saber. Chengwei allowed his friend to
use the Dragon Saber first. Instead of using the
sword, Caoyuan sold it for 7,200 yuan, or $870,
instead. Chengwei first attempted to lawfully get
back the sword. He went to the police first. Since the
Dragon Saber was not a real, physical item, there
was nothing the police could do. Caoyuan promised to
give Chengwei the profit he made. Impatient and
angry, Chengwei stabbed him in the chest with "great
force" according to police, which killed Caoyuan.
Chengwei turned himself into police.
Before Pokémon Go, Niantic Labs developed another
addictive mobile game for Google called Ingress.
Within the alternate world, two different factions
are fighting for freedom or control. Ingress required
that players go to different locations to gain levels
and become stronger. Ingress was still growing at
the time and lacked warnings not to play while
driving or to be aware of your surroundings. A
teenager in Brazil named Gabriel Cavalcante
Carneiro Leao was an avid player. He enjoyed going
out to play Ingress, and his mother warned him
several times to be careful. Unfortunately, Gabriel
didn't listen to the warnings. On his way to
capturing a gray colored portal for his faction, he
crossed a busy street without looking both ways. He
was struck by a bus and killed.
 Lee Seung Seop was known to family and friends as a
gaming addict. Though he loved playing video games,
he led a normal life. He worked as an industrial boiler
repairman and had a girlfriend, who also shared his
love of gaming. Unfortunately, gaming became more
important to him. He played video games late into the
night and was often late to work the next morning,
which lead to his firing. He also broke up with his
girlfriend. In early August, Lee entered an internet
café to play StarCraft. He played the game for fifty
hours, only stopping to use the restroom. Lee also ate
and drank very little during his gaming binge. After his
friends had found Lee, he told them he would finish up
his game and go home. He shortly collapsed, dying of
heart failure from both exhaustion and dehydration.
 Anna-Lee Kehoe was a young teenager who had
asthma. She enjoyed playing her Xbox 360 and often
immersed herself in games. She had been so
focused on the game she was playing and did not
realize her worsening symptoms. After taking a
break, Anna was able to tell her mother "I can't
breathe" before collapsing. Her mother immediately
called paramedics. After Anna had been rushed to
the hospital, her parents were informed that Anna
had suffered a heart attack so severe that the left
side of her brain was dead and she required life-
support. Anna's parents decided to make the tough
decision to take her off of life-support, making the
teen one of the youngest to die from playing video
games in history.