Video games have a number of positive effects on people that play them, however there exists few negative effects which cannot be ignored.

Talking about its positivity, video games can improve cognitive and perceptual skills.

As a child, every individual gets to excel in problem-solving ability by examining the types of cognitive, goal-oriented, game-oriented, emotional and contextual statements they make.

Younger children seem more interested in setting short-term goals for their learning in the game compared to older children who are more interested in simply playing and the actions of playing.

Thus, younger children may show a greater need for focusing on small aspects of a given problem than older children, even in a leisure-based situation such as playing video games.