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Video games are games played on electronic devices.

Often video game is taken in a narrow sense to mean those games played on consoles for television and similar handhelds, with computer games and arcade games (coin-operated) treated separately. This is because the early games of these three tended to be very different. However, now there is considerable similarity between them, and many games have appeared on more than one platform.

History is related on another page.

Video games are made by developers, made up of directors, graphic designers, programmers, musicians and other technicians. Many teams easily number into the hundreds on larger projects such as SEGA's Shenmue. But most are still made up of no more than a dozen closely working developers. Id Software is a good example of the smaller, more tightly focused developer.

Below are some of the main genres of video games. This list could be improved on, and the titles relisted to those of great importance. Video games can also be categorized temporally - one may be a turn-based game or a continuous game - or in terms of the sort of display they have - 2d, 3d, fixed 3d, and so forth - though these tend to be more flexible. Of course all of these categories are somewhat overlapping and incomplete , GTA for example is an adventure, a shooter and 2D or 3D depending on version.

Traditonal

Most popular board games, card games, and the like have been computerized to some degree or another. For example, more than 600 freeware board games are available written in Zillions.

Chess, Checkers, Othello (aka Reversi), and Backgammon have world class computer programs.
Mah-jongg and related games are immensely popular in Japan. I-go is popular in Asia, and there is much more variety in it. And there is no same layout between any two as story goes.
Magic: The Gathering has had computer versions for a long time. Most noteworthy are Apprentice and Magic: Online.

Computer game programs can be worthy opponents and can help you improve your skill at traditional board games.

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