Slide 2- History

Slide 3- Genres

Slide 4- Statistics about Genres

Slide 5- Males and Females on Videogames

Slide 6- Statistics about Gender

Slide 7- Console Screen

Slide 8- Game Developers

Slide 9- People Screen

Slide 10- Citations

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A Brief History about Videogames

It all started in the 1970s, introduced as a commercial entertainment medium, videogames created an important

entertainment industry for Japan, Europe and the United States. Gradually growing over two decades, videogames developed

into a 10 billion dollar industry competing with the motion picture industry

as the most profitable entertainment industry in the world.

Gaming Genres

Videogames are categorized into different genres based on their game play interaction. Much like the movie

industry, games hold a rating criteria for age, based on certain genres. While

some genres are more popular than others, for example sports games have a higher popularity percent than strategy games, gaming developers continue to create a

variety of styles to accommodate everyone's’ preference.

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Popularity of Genres

Action/Adventure

Sports

RPG

Suspense/Horror

Puzzle/Strategy

32%

29%

20%

17%

2%

Male and Female Gamers

A recent survey conducted by the Ipsos MediaCT for the ESA (Entertainment Software

Association) discovered that 40% of gamers are female and the

average age of a gamer is 35 years old. Women over 18 make up a

larger percentage of gamers than boys under 17 (33% to 18%). Other results indicated that 65% of US

households play videogames and 38% of US households own a videogame

console system.

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Game DevelopersSo what or who are

videogame developers?

A videogame developer is a business or an individual software developer that creates

games. Certain developers focus on specializing games for rivalry game system companies such as Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. The developers usually employ a team of programmers, game designers, artists, sound engineers and

producers. Once the game is complete it then gets published through the developer.

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