VIDEOGAMES

A VIDEO GAME
A video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.

The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device.

However, with the popular use of the term "video game", it now implies any type of display device. The electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms; examples of these are personal computers and video game consoles (play station, nintendo etc.. )

TYPES

Video games are primarily meant for entertainment. However, some video games are made (at least in part) for other reasons. These include advergames, educational games, propaganda games. Many of these fall under the category of serious games.

SOCIAL ASPECTS

Demographics

multiplayer-Video gaming has traditionally been a social experience. From its early beginnings, video games have commonly been playable by more than a single player.

Benefits- It has been shown that action video game players have better visuomotor skills, such as their resistance to distraction, their sensitivity to information in peripheral vision, and their ability to count briefly presented objects than nonplayers.

Controversy- Like related forms of media, computer and video games have been the subject of frequent controversy and censorship, due to the depiction of graphic violence, sexual themes, advergaming (a form of advertising in games), consumption of drugs, consumption of alcohol or tobacco, propaganda, or profanity in some games. Among others, critics of video games sometimes include parents' groups, politicians, organized religious groups, and other special interest groups, even though all of these can be found in all forms of entertainment and media.

the information are from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game

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