You may want to print this one out and show it to mom or significant other. Playing video games is good for you.

Marc Prensky, Games2Train CEO and author of “Don’t Bother Me Mom — I’m Learning” made these points during a gaming session at the Online News Association meeting in Toronto.

• It took the movie industry about 100 years to develop to maturity, but it only took video games 35 years, from the first baby steps of Pong (1972) to the virtual realism of Halo 3 (2007) (and of course, they’re still growing)
• “Complex” games can take up to 100 hours to play
• “Digital Natives”: What Prensky calls kids born in the digital age
• Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes
• It’s not just your kids playing video games. Among the organizations or sectors where video games are used to teach or train are government and non-governmental organizations, health care institutions, defense-related organizations and companies. Two games that stood out from the Public Health sector: “Catch the Sperm” and “Super Shagland”.

(Photo: Reuters)