Games|Computer

Computer games are simply using a computer to play a game.

Computer games can be categorized in one or more of the following categories:

• Turn based game
• Continuous game

• Two dimensional - 2d
• Fixed screen
• Scrolling screen
• Horizontal scrolling
• Left to right scrolling - as you move to the right, you cannot move back to the left
• Vertical scrolling
• Three dimensional - 3d

• First person
• First person shooter
• Third person

Special note about computerization of existing board games: Most popular board games have been computerized to some degree or another. Chess, checkers and othello - reversi have world class computer programs. It has been proven , by playing all possible checkers games, that the second player to move can always win. Computer game programs are worthy opponents and can help you improve you skill at traditional board games.

Most references you will find separate out video games, arcade games, and computer games into different categories. Do we want to do that? I'd vote no, but since it seems kind of standard, somebody might want to disagree. Most pages - or at least those on game history - tend to be about the hardware and companies anyway. It would be cool if this could end up different.

Do we want this to be a subcategory of Games? I can see many things wanting to go here, like history of computer games, and it seems odd that they would either be independent subcategories of a subpage or direct subpages of games. I'm voting again that this becomes a top-level category.