Video game genres

National Laboratory created an interactive module with hopes of making lab tours less dull. The module was a game that allowed players to choose the balls angle with the twist of a knob and launch it towards the opponent with a push of a button. His creation was called Tennis for Two and it was the birthing world’s first video game. Fast forward nearly 60 years of technological advances and video games have imploded into a global entertainment market that “saw revenues of $67 billion dollars,…

In 1971 an engineer at Nutting Associates by the name of Nolan Bushnell created Computer Space, the first ever commercial video game. One year later he created Pong, the first commercial video game to be widely successful. Since then, video games have erupted in popularity and evolved from incredibly simple gameplay and graphics to complex systems running near-realistic graphics. Many of these changes only became possible as the hardware they ran on became more powerful. As time progressed,…

TRACKING OF BRAIN WAVE PATTERNS ACTIVITY DURING VIDEO GAMING Vijayalakshmi C.K, Padma S AP, Dept of EEE, Prof, Dept of EEE Angel College of Engineering and Technology Sona College of Technology Tirupur, Tamil Nadu. Salem, Tamil Nadu. vijiprabu@gmail.com swanisha@gmail.com Abstract - Kids who play immoderate video game leads to health problems. Children frequently using of gaming gadgets increases bad behavior and negative…

Video game addiction has also been referred to as video game overuse, pathological or compulsive/excessive use of computer games and/or video games. Those suffering from video game addiction may use the Internet to access massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and multi-user domain games (MUDs). Similar to other addictions, individuals suffering from video game addiction use the virtual fantasy world to connect with real…

Video games have been in the lives of American lives since 1970 . Many children and adults feel entertained by all the different consoles and video games there are to play. The constant marketing and exposure of video games, make it so easy for children to gain access and knowledge about them. Some consoles offer the single player the opportunity to invite online players to play with them, making the experience more appealing. Many video games can be categorized in genres just like movies.…

improve the community. Video games accurately present this social concept by establishing an audience centered on a specific video game franchise. This connection is presented by how video games create communities, players helping out newcomers get familiar with their community’s video game, and how people united to save a major tournament. For decades, video games have always been an experience solely for the gamer playing his personal copy of the video game, aside when multiple…

consumers spent $16.6 billion on video games, according to the Entertainment Software Association” (Dockterman). Video game culture has become mainstream and very influential in modern lifestyles. Video game characters are featured on merchandise and apparel. Games have also been adapted into films and books, such as Resident Evil and Halo. Of the visitors to a fandom convention, almost half are women (Wiseman). But, only around 15% of characters in video games are women (Gittleson). “In 2013…

Enhanced graphics is a major factor because a game with horrible quality is not pleasing to the player. People also have the option to upgrade their video card to meet the demands of newer technology and upgrade quality to keep their selves pleased. Another huge reason is the mouse and keyboard support. With a gaming console, understand that people have to give up the precision and accuracy it needs with a traditional mouse and keyboard. When people play a game that relies on this level of…

Video games can be as addicting as drugs for teenagers, study says. (Social) It affects the brain the same way as alcohol or drug addiction. And as the addiction to games mirror the addiction to hard drugs in which the user requires more and more, the average teenage video gamer is also playing more and more. Because teenagers are playing more video games compared to their past counterparts, they are more likely to experience a change in social and psychological behaviors. The solution to this…

to realize the potential of video gaming market. The first generation video games released in the 1960s and later several new generations of gaming consoles came back-to-back with advanced features. World-famous Washington based software-giant Microsoft created an all-new video gaming brand 'Xbox' in 2001 as its first step to conquering the gaming market. Since the release, it went through a tough competition with other players like Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's Game Cube and came off with…