The worldwide, multi-billion dollar computer and video game industry has been and remains one of the fastest growing markets linked to consumer technology goods. It is an industry that has fed not only the consumers' desire for entertainment, but also...

Video Games Electronic, interactive games known for their vibrant colors and complex graphics. First mass-marketed in the 1970s, video games are played by installing cartridges into a game box connected by wire to a television set. They then manipulate...

When the basic "electronic tennis" game, Pong, first appeared in American bars in 1972 it created a sensation that has only since been replicated by the 1990s Karaoke boom in Japan. In relative terms, of course, Pong was as fun and...

While many of the high-technology breakthroughs in electronics have been focused on advances in the fields of science and business, the video game industry has also grown rapidly, due to sophisticated electronic devices. The concept of video games had...

Early this year, makers of video games and computer games pledged to Congress that by Christmas their products would carry universal labels describing levels of violence, sex and profanity. Today, representatives from the industry's two wings again will visit Capitol Hill, but this...

ALAN FRAM and TREVOR TOMPSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-14-2007 Computer, video games not exactly a family affair -- Survey finds few parents play along with kids By ALAN FRAM and TREVOR TOMPSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 11-14-2007,...

On Saturday, January 20, 2007, Kansas Senator Sam Brownback formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Brownback first entered public office as the Kansas’ secretary of agriculture in 1986. He made his first bid for elective office in 1994, when he successfully...

Four race cars barrel down a virtual track, jostling for position. Announcers shout their commentary over growling engines until a winner speeds past a checkered flag.The frenetic race televised on DirecTV wasn't a NASCAR event. It was staged as part of a new video game...

On the morning of December 1, 1997, in Paducah, Kentucky, fourteenyear- old Michael Carneal opened fire on a prayer group at Heath High School with a .22 pistol he had stolen, killing three students and injuring five others. According to Dave...

Explores the hazards on young children of playing computer games.

Encompasses why people play videogames and discusses the major effects of videogame participation.

Discusses the effect of computer gaming on children. Argues that many of the problems are caused by parents rather than the gaming industry.