According to a recent poll conducted by AOL Games and Associated Press, about 81% of all children (aged 4-17) play videogames regularly, while the statistic for adults is 38%. And lest male gamers take all the credit, out of the total number of adult gamers, a full 45% are female. The poll broke down into more »

Prepare yourselves folks. According to a study published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, kids between the ages of ten and nineteen — are you sitting down? — play video games (gasp!).

It turns out that video games are quite popular among young boys and even girls, too. Out of a sample of almost 1500 ten- to nineteen-year-olds:

A total of 534 teens (36%) played video games. Most of these (425 [80%]) were boys and 109 (20%) were girls. “Female gamers spent an average of 44 minutes playing on the weekdays and one hour and four minutes playing on the weekends,” the authors write. “Male gamers spent an average of 58 minutes playing on the weekdays and one hour and 37 minutes playing on the weekends.”

My initial reaction to this data was…