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A video game is something that allows a user to give an input and displays such video feedback on a visual device like a handheld or a monitor. The electronic systems such as computers, video game consoles and other devices are now known as platforms.

There are various kinds of video games. Arcade games were extremely popular earlier but their popularity has gone down with the demand for specialized and larger scale games.

The input device which the user uses to control the game is called a game controller and the kind of game controller varies with the kind of platform. For example a keyboard may be used with a computer, or a joystick with a gaming console.

Gaming has now gone from a past time for children to a serious pursuit involving adults with some serious money to be made. Games may be of various kinds including very basic games including Mario, Pacman which every child plays at a young age to strategy games or serious games such a Counter Strike or Warcraft which has captured the minds of people, mostly males within the age group of 12 to 40 with competitions and contests being held.

Most games these days are multi player games wherein many people participate in a game to emerge the winner.

Also the gaming industry now rakes in billions of dollars from selling gaming platforms like the Sony Playstation and online gaming and the sale of different games.

Video games have faced their share of criticism from some parts of the society blaming games for the effect they have on young children and exposing them to violence, advertisement, propaganda, drugs and other such things

Unfazed by detractors however, the gaming industry with the help of its ardent followers continues to rake in the moolah.