Video Games

Evolution of computers enabled the arrival of high quality and extremely graphic video games. Video games are computer or micro processor controlled games.  Computers can create virtual spaces for a wide variety of game types.Some video games simulate conventional game objects like cards or dice, while others can simulate environs either grounded in reality or fantastical in design, each with its own set of rules or goals.

There are many genres of video game, the first commercial video game, Pong was a simple simulation of table tennis. Increased processing power enabled the development of action and adventure games which involved a player  guiding a character from a third person perspective through a series of obstacles.This "real-time" element cannot be easily reproduced by a board game, which is generally limited to "turn-based" strategy; this advantage allows video games to simulate situations such as combat more realistically.

Additionally the playing of video games does not require the same physical skill, strength and/or danger as a real-world representation of the game, and can provide either very realistic, exaggerated or impossible physics, allowing for elements of a fantastical nature, games involving physical violence, or simulations of sports. Lastly, a computer can, with varying degrees of success, simulate one or more human opponents in traditional table games such as chess, leading to simulations of such games that can be played by a single player. In more open-ended computer simulations, also known as sandbox-style games, the game provides a virtual environment in which the player may be free to do whatever they like.