Lecture 6 - The Academic Study of Video Games

Today’s lecture is about the Academic Study of Video Games, it’s pretty interesting. I remember that the first video game that I played was Mario, the very classical and interesting game that I still like to play when I have time.
The majority of video games’ producers are about 20 years old, and they are just graduated from universities. Video Games are designed for most of young players to have fun in their leisure time, so I think the young video games’ producers can add more fashion elements in video games because they know what the young like. Video Games are a new form of media, it gives people the new feeling of media and it also provide images and sounds and even a story.
The video games are different from the traditional games, I think one of their differences is that the video games are virtual worlds and the traditional games are not. Virtual means not real, it’s like our imagination, for example, the SecondLife is the virtual world of video games which we can use the virtual money for shopping, have meal, buy house and do almost everything just like we do in our real life, but all the things are not real and we can not use the virtual money to buy things in real life.