Early video games use interactive electronic devices with various display formats. The earliest example is from 1947—a "cathode-ray tube amusement device" … See more

To distinguish from electronic games, a video game is generally considered to require a platform, the hardware which contains computing elements, to process player interaction … See more

Video game development and authorship, much like any other form of entertainment, is frequently a cross-disciplinary field. Video game developers, as employees within this industry are commonly referred to, primarily include programmers and graphic designers See more

Culture
Video game culture is a worldwide new media subculture formed around video games and game … See more

The term "video game" was developed to distinguish this class of electronic games that were played on some type of video display rather than on a teletype printer, audio speaker, or similar device. This also distinguished from many handheld electronic games See more

Video games are frequently classified by a number of factors related to how one plays them.
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History
The early history of the video game industry, following the first game hardware releases and through 1983, had little structure. Video games quickly took off during the golden age of arcade video games See more