What is the impact of the use of computer games on young people?
A. Nowadays such games can be played on relatively low specification technology gaming platforms, including mobile devices (Kirriemuir 2002). This makes the games accessible to people who may not own an interactive television or personal computer. Many young people spend a significant amount of leisure time each week playing computer games, often 7 hours or more (Anderson and Bushman 2001; Walsh 2002). Such games have become for many children the chosen form of play (VanDeventer and White 2002).
