Online Computer Games by Max Bellamy
Online computer games take advantage of the Internet to offer an exquisite gaming experience. Online computer games are of four types. You can play some online computer games with a browser window. For that you need to log on to a specific web site. Some online computer games are text-based. ... It’s always useful to have software capable of locating active game servers. ... Not only that, you need to have the software installed on your computer to run the game. ... Lineage, Counter-Strike, EverQuest, Quake and Half-Life are some popular online computer game titles.

PC Games - Atari For PC by Michael Russell
And then it happened. The Atari 2600 craze died and with it all the great and not so great games that were produced, which came out to literally thousands of titles. At the time there were many who thought that the game craze itself was over. Not quite. ... Fans of Space Invaders from the early arcade days and Atari days could now play their favorite game again. ... To get an answer to these questions you would have to ask for game players themselves and most likely if you asked 100 people you would get 100 different answers.

Video Game History – Do You Remember Pac Man, Space Invaders, and Super Mario Brothers? by J. Wuebben
Of all the things that the 1970’s produced, there are few that made as big of a cultural impact as video games. There’s no question about it: video games have been a significant force in society and one of the most popular leisure pursuits. Chances are if you’re under the age of 40, you played... In the previous years, there had been a very fine line separating arcade game quality from home game quality. ... This simple formula went on to become the most successful arcade game of all time. ... Xbox has taken the step to merge the past and present, where Xbox "Live Arcade" is a console...

The Top 10 Sports Video Games of All Time by Adam McFarland
There have been hundreds of sports video games throughout the years. In less than forty years we’ve gone from Pong to MLB 2K6 for the Xbox 360. But the evolution of games hasn’t always meant better games. Just because a game has flashier interfaces and better graphics, it doesn’t necessarily... NBA Jam (Arcade) - Between the arcade version and the console versions, I've played a ton of NBA Jam. ... NBA Live ‘95 (Genesis, SNES) - This game might not have been realistic at all, but it was insanely fun to run up and down the court firing up threes and throwing up alley-oops.

Video Game Evolution by Steve Stuchlik
Very few of the "gamers" remember "back in the day", around Christmas of 1975 Atari was the first to mass produce and distribute a game, where the game console had 2 knobs that turned left and right moving a little rectangle block up an down the screen, one on the left side and the other on the... With all of these developments, but online and console games, the "arcade" as we knew it, has pretty much became a thing of the past limited now to expensive game control systems not available to home users.

Kids Online Games: Get Phat! by Scott Soloff
Kids online games are games that kids can play when they are connected to the Internet using either a computer or a video console [Examples: Playstation 2, Xbox]. Kids love games, and with kids getting net-savvier by the day they have latched on big-time to online games. ... Also, stricter laws related to kids and online games are slowly being passed across the major game-playing nations. ... Conclusion There is a silver lining to this dark image depending on how you look at kids online games: statistics show that 62% of the video console and 66% of the PC game market customers are over...

If You Could Play One Game for the Rest of Your Life, What Would it Be? by J. Wuebben
You’re an online game player. Probably an expert. Actually, you’re probably an expert at a bunch of different games. And you probably enjoy playing lots of different games, especially the new ones. But, if you were to pick just one, just one game that you would have to play for the rest of your... If you could only play one game for the rest of you life, would it be a game show game? ... Well, then maybe you could play a game show game for the rest of your life. ... If you could only play one game for the rest of you life, would it be a strategy game?

Popup-Killers Kill More Than You Think by Michael Russell
Probably one of the most dreaded terms in all the Internet is the popup. Let's face it. We all hate them. But can we really live without them? We're going to take a devil's advocate look at popups and suggest that maybe we should learn to live with them. ... We go to our favorite web site simply to look around or maybe play a game, maybe even to purchase something. ... If you go to Pogo.com to play one of their arcade games such as pool and try to enter a room to play, if you have a popup blocker installed on your computer and it's running you are going to find out that you can't get into...

Reviving Old Computer Games by Daniel Punch
Remember the good old days of gaming, when there were only 5 pixels in the protagonist and your imagination could turn them into a heroic figure of Schwarzenegger proportions? When the enemies and the heroes were distinguished by colour and you only needed one button on the joystick? ... The graphics, sounds, and game play remain intact. ... One excellent place to look for online games is Every Video Game (http://www.everyvideogame.com). ... Commodore 64, Amiga, NES, Master System, Arcade Machines and more have all been emulated and the necessary programs placed online for download,...

$20 Buys a Lot of Game These Days by Leonardo De La Rocha
Watching the evolution of sports games has been like watching a retarded child grow up to become a handsome and brilliant Master of the Universe. Now I’m not saying ESPN’s NBA 2K5 is the pinnacle of sports gaming, but I will tell you why it comes pretty damn close – especially for all of us... It was 1978 – our parents were high on coke, Carter was jerking off the Chinese and Atari released its arcade sports classic, Football. ... This year’s release offers numerous adjustments and new features made to create the series' most realistic basketball simulation to date, powered by a physics...