Shoot-'em-ups can improve eyesight?

The Mad Hatter

Before you suggest it, I don't think it's an April Fools' prank, as the post was made on the 29th.

A recent study has suggested that playing shoot-'em-up video games may improve certain aspects of eyesight.

It is sort of refreshing to see an article that doesn't condemn video games as evil and the precursor of the end of the world as we know it.

Anyone who has played video games for too long is probably familiar with the sore, tired and dry eyes that accompany extended bouts of shooting things with rocket launchers.

liah

Makes sense, since in quite a lot of FPS you have to be able to quickly spot enemies at range or in cover.

They also apparently did wonders for my hand-eye coordination, but that's kind of a given.

CreepingDeath

I keep seeing cross-hairs in the centre of my vision... maybe there's too much of a good thing.

The Mad Hatter

CreepingDeath wrote: »

I keep seeing cross-hairs in the centre of my vision... maybe there's too much of a good thing.

Like the Tetris Effect?

Pighead

That's fantastic news for all you shoot em up gamers. You all have fantastic eyesight! No friends, no life, no sense of embarrassment or worry from wearing the same pair of underpants for 9 days solid but absolutely magnificent eyesight! Great stuff lads. As you were. BANG BANG!

Karoma

Pighead wrote: »

That's fantastic news for all you shoot em up gamers. You all have fantastic eyesight! No friends, no life, no sense of embarrassment or worry from wearing the same pair of underpants for 9 days solid but absolutely magnificent eyesight! Great stuff lads. As you were. BANG BANG!

Mr Pot, what you're saying is that they're pretty much boardsies with better eyesight...and hand-eye co-ordination?

Vegeta

Pighead wrote: »

That's fantastic news for all you shoot em up gamers. You all have fantastic eyesight! No friends, no life, no sense of embarrassment or worry from wearing the same pair of underpants for 9 days solid but absolutely magnificent eyesight! Great stuff lads. As you were. BANG BANG!

Show some respect Pighead

10 days is my record

cotwold

I know myself i'm ultra observant walking down the street after playing Call of Duty, never know where a sniper could be hiding on a grafton street rooftop.:pac:

Vain

Great i spend at least 10hours a day playing shoot em ups. Must tell my friends, o thats right i have none, will tell my mother so.:pac:

Pighead

Karoma wrote: »

Mr Pot, what you're saying is that they're pretty much boardsies with better eyesight...and hand-eye co-ordination?

Did you just call Pighead, Mr Pot? Pigheads been called many nasty names in his past but never before has he been compared to a ruthless Cambodian dictator.

Listen Karoma, Pighead isn't being hypocritical in the slightest here. 100% of Gamers are geeks and thats just the way it is. Boards whilst populated with a scattering of geeks (who are mostly gamers as well) has a much higher percentage of norms and hygienic people. As Bruce Hornsby once horribly sang " That's just the way it is"

liah

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Like the Tetris Effect?

Don't joke about that, I went on a Tetris binge once and had nightmares for weeks, I couldn't close my eyes without seeing those horrible coloured blocks.

..I wish I was joking.

James Forde

LOLCATS all ye non-FPS n00bs just got PwNEd... is what one might say

me-skywalker

liah wrote: »

Don't joke about that, I went on a Tetris binge once and had nightmares for weeks, I couldn't close my eyes without seeing those horrible coloured blocks.

..I wish I was joking.

i was ADDICTED to this......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Tetris

longest time survived is about 2hours of non-stop playing....

Corcaigh84

liah wrote: »

Don't joke about that, I went on a Tetris binge once and had nightmares for weeks, I couldn't close my eyes without seeing those horrible coloured blocks.

..I wish I was joking.

They weren't horrible, they were blocks of 8-bit lovliness! Take it back!

TBH tho I had those nightmares/dreams too. Happy days.

PurpleBerry

Never helped mine...

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Grand Theft Auto and Gran Turismo greatly improved my driving

Gran Hermano

I thought porn on your laptop was the number one 'improver' for eye to hand co-ordination.

Krieg

I call bolox
My eye sight has gone to the dogs after many FPS 12hr binge

Pighead

Pighead wrote: »

That's fantastic news for all you shoot em up gamers. You all have fantastic eyesight! No friends, no life, no sense of embarrassment or worry from wearing the same pair of underpants for 9 days solid but absolutely magnificent eyesight! Great stuff lads. As you were. BANG BANG!

in the past, have you been raped or molested by a shoot em up gamer pighead?

Zadkiel

Krieg wrote: »

I call bolox
My eye sight has gone to the dogs after many FPS 12hr binge

I thought that said your eye sight had gone to the dogs from too many FAPS 12hr binges, I guess I'm still the only one then

Pighead

Deleted User wrote: »

in the past, have you been raped or molested by a shoot em up gamer pighead?

Impossible scenario. For Pighead to have been raped by a gamer one of two things would have to happen:
1/ Pighead would have to enter into said gamers basement.
2/ Gamer would have to leave his basement.

Neither of those things have ever happened.

BeerWolf

I've not played any FPS for a LONG time... played CS:S last night and I stink

pwd

there was a study before that indicated that juggling causes your brain to grow in the area associated with visual processing: Possibly playing shooting games has a similar effect on your brain rather than on your eyes.

Captain-America

If there was any truth to this I'd have X-Ray vision at this stage.

Horsefumbler

Pighead wrote: »

Did you just call Pighead, Mr Pot? Pigheads been called many nasty names in his past but never before has he been compared to a ruthless Cambodian dictator.

Listen Karoma, Pighead isn't being hypocritical in the slightest here. 100% of Gamers are geeks and thats just the way it is. Boards whilst populated with a scattering of geeks (who are mostly gamers as well) has a much higher percentage of norms and hygienic people. As Bruce Hornsby once horribly sang " That's just the way it is"

lol what a geek:D

Overheal

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Before you suggest it, I don't think it's an April Fools' prank, as the post was made on the 29th.

A recent study has suggested that playing shoot-'em-up video games may improve certain aspects of eyesight.

It is sort of refreshing to see an article that doesn't condemn video games as evil and the precursor of the end of the world as we know it.

Nope its bonafide. The research is a few years old at this stage. One of the top studies graded 2 groups of Surgeons over time and found that the surgeons that regularly played video games performed surgery better than their counterparts, due to improved hand-eye coordination.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4685909/