Lecture 7 Summary

Lecture 7 Summary....

Lecture 7 involved learning about computer games and the way they work. Two of the key questions that were addressed in this lecture include:

1. How have people approached the academic study of video games?


2. What kinds of questions can we ask about video games?

There are so many different types of computer games these days it is seriously not funny. I first remember when we got our first computer games device.. It was a Sega and it had Sonic the Hedge Hog on it as the game.. arrrr doesn't time fly with Sonic and my personel favourite 'Alex The Kid' game. I feel so old now...My brother and I were amazed and so greatful that our parents bought us something so expensive in its time. These days its a regular thing for children born in late 90s and early 2000 to have these life-like video games and controllers at home. The games today have all the high tech graphics and even a high tech computer / game box. The most popular of these today is the X-Box..

Funny enough though these days X-Box etc and their games are not only for the amusement of children, Adults are more into computers games these days than children. Games especially built for adults and have adult themes have taken the gaming world by storm. You can get games like Playboy Mansion (enough said for that game and there is no way i'd let my kid look at that) and also all the blood and guts games like Doom, Quake and my fav Command& Conquer Red Alert.

Appart from all the blood an guts and nudity on adult video games, computer games and software are being used in an effort to connect to children and their education. As we move away from the old 'dead tree' method of learning out of books, educational programs are being used in schools and at home to teach children basics like maths, english, geography. An example of Educational software games include;

http://www.edalive.com/

http://www.qmsoftware.com.au/SpellingGames.htm

http://www.mathspractice.com.au/

If your not home playing video games on your own X-Box or Play Station etc you can be playing video games in a video arcade or even on your own mobile phone. Computers are everywhere these days and if you have a computer i'm sure there is a computer games lurking near by..Solitare haha...