The everyday life of today’s children and minors is preoccupied with video games and is accompanied by modern technology that records its accelerated progress. Video games and technology inevitably influence the behavior and development of children and minors through their daily presence. The main issue and objective of this thesis were to investigate and identify the positive or negative impact of video games on children and minors. Video games are useful for learning and developing children’s cognitive and analytical abilities and on the other hand, they are experienced as content and media that incites violence and is addictive. Relation of other positive and negative impacts on children and minors is presented in the theoretical workflow. In the empirical part of the work, a study was carried out to identify the impact of video games on the development of children and minors. The survey provided results that respondents did not feel that video games incite violence and actually foster the social aspect of children’s lives, but also the possibility of controlling the negative impact of video games on children and young people.