Many critics in America attack video games for the violence and sexual themes that are often depicted in video games that are released to an adolescent public. There have been studies done to try to show that there is a correlation between violence in video games and aggressive behavior of those adolescents who play such violent video games. There have also been studies that try to show that the sexual themes in some video games cause increased sexual desires in young adolescent males, that ultimately are acted out on young females. The evidence that the critics have against violent games and games that contain sexual themes is convincing. Many protective parents recoil at the idea of their children playing such video games. And often, those people that play video games are looked down upon, as if playing video games is a great crime. Granted, playing video games may not be a productive use of time, but there are three kinds of video games that promote positive cognitive development: The strategy genre; The role-playing genre; The fighting genre.
             First, the strategy genre is the modern chess game that stimulates intellectual growth and patience. Many of us are familiar with the game of chess. There are thirty two pieces on a board of sixty four spaces on a two-dimensional plane in the game of chess. There are six different kinds of pieces in chess: the king, the queen, the bishop, the knight, the castle, and the pon. Each piece has certain rules that it must follow in order to move and attack. The objective of the game is to trap the king piece of the opponent. Clearly, chess is a simple game. Yet, many of us would agree that chess is a game that requires you to think ahead and carefully plan a good defense and offense. Sometimes there is a time limit to how long you can think and plan out your next move, adding an interesting element to the game of chess. One needs a great deal of patience and mental foresight to ...