Playing computer games can improve your eyesight, experts say

Many years ago, a family friend's child was "prescribed" a Sega Genesis and fast-moving video games to help improve his eyesight.

I had really great eyesight up until about 7th grade. This happened to be about the time I stopped playing games daily, but I can't believe it was because I no longer played video games. I think it had more to do with my reading.

Well not for me. I have quite a hard time keeping by eyes from hurting after staring at a computer screen all day. Thank god for paper.

Reading is definitely different than playing video games.

I personally take frequent eye ball breaks from writing code. Video games, however, don't seem to bother me for twice, if not three times as long. I can't go two hours reading without a break, but I can easily kill an entire sick day playing a video game.

I think my eyes got worst from playing the gameboy pocket too much