Newton Paul's Blog

Video Games these days have improved from what we knew it to be to what it is now. Recently I was playing Tomb Raider: A Survivor is Born (2013) and my friend who was watching thought it was a movie until I made a silly mistake which killed Lara Croft then the “game over” write-up flooded my TV screen, this unveiled the movie to be a game. A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word ‘video game’ traditionally referred to a raster display device but more contemporarily, it implies any type of display device that can produce two or three dimensional images. The electronic system(s) used to play video games are known as platforms. Examples of these are Personal Computers (PCs), PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, etc. The input device primarily used to manipulate video games is called a game controller which ranges from a button and a joystick to a dozen ...