Owen Sturm- week 9-Downfall of iphone games

 When I was a kid I loved playing phone games. Angry Birds: Star Wars, jetpack joyride, and Clash of Clans ruled my childhood. I probably spent hundreds of hours on those 3 games alone. What happened to games like these and why don’t the younger kids play them anymore?

An important reason is that kids have a much shorter attention span than us as kids. This is because many kids nowadays have grown up from birth hooked on the internet. Around 67% of kids who spend 2 hours a day on electronic devices have attention problems. Many more of these kids are being created with how relevant electronics are. When I was 10, my mom only let me have 15 minutes of screen time on school days and an hour on weekends. My sister, who is 11, has only the restriction of having to complete her schoolwork first on school days and none on weekends. Kids are more prone to having attention issues and that's why games like Angry Birds and Temple Run, where the gameplay isn’t super exciting or varied, aren’t being played as much. Because kids aren’t playing games like these anymore, no one is creating them because they won’t make as much money. Games like roblox, which my sister plays everyday, have many more games and much more content inside the game than any other single older game could provide. That’s why younger kids are playing that instead of the same gameplay over and over again. Do you think games were better then or now?