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\nI am on the old side of the generation that grew up with video Prior cognitive, psychological, and neurological studies have
\ngames as a ubiquitous presence in their life. I clearly recall the
\nworld’s worst Atari port of one of the greatest game of all
\ntime—PacMan—and I even remember playing what is widely considered to be
\nthe worst game of all time, the Atari 2600’s E.T.<\/a> (I still clearly recall how hard it was).
\nToday, video games focus less on forcing you to pump more and more quarters into an arcade machine<\/span> punishing difficulty and more on telling
\na story and making the experience a bit gentler on the novice
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\nshown that expert video game players are capable of outperforming
\nnovices in measures of attention and perception. They also have
\ndemonstrated that, when novices train on video games for 20-plus hours, they experienced no measurable increase in cognitive ability. These two pieces of
\ninformation would seem to point to an innate difference between expert
\nand novices gamers, instead of suggesting that gaming is a skill that can be learned.<\/p>\n
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