Games

There are many different devices that games may be played on. Personal computers, consoles, and arcade machines are all common. There is a thin line between games played on the computer and those on the console in terms of genre.

Many games intended for computers are now just as prevalent on consoles, both of which have many of the same selections of titles. This is due to the fact that video game consoles have drastically increased in computing power and capabilities over the last few years to the point that they can handle games that were formerly only playable with computers. With the release of Microsoft's Xbox console, which was based on PC architecture, and which was developed with online gameplay in mind, most major computer game releases coincide with the release of console versions. However, popular titles initially developed for a single platform are often "ported" to another platform. Recent examples include id's Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Windows to Xbox) and Bungie's blockbuster first person shooter, Halo (Developed for the Mac, then bought to be released for Xbox and then (re)-ported to Mac and Windows).

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Action-Adventure
Adventure
Beat 'em up/Fighting
First-person shooters
- Game-controlled environment
- Player-controlled environment
- Vehicle Based
- Mech
Online games
- Role-Playing Games
- Shooters
- Turn-based
- Real-time strategy

Maze games
Platformers
Racing games
- Simulation style
- Arcade style
Puzzle
Rhythm games
Role-Playing Games
- MMORPGs
- Roguelikes
Shooters
Shoot 'em ups

Simulation
Space simulation
Sports
Stealth Action
Strategy
- General Strategy
- Turn-based
- Real-time strategy
Survival Horror
Third-Person Shooters/Third-Person Action
Miscellany
Collectible Card Game
Educational

One of the earlier popular films was The Wizard, which some criticized as a 90 minute ad for Super Mario Brothers 3. In the mid-90s, films for Super Mario Brothers, Street Fighter, Wing Commander and Mortal Kombat were released.

Despite the ultimately poor performance of these movies, many studios still want to turn big games into movies, hoping that the popularity of the game will help the movie. However, after the initial bunch, many projects materialized that were never finished, but the success of films like Lara Croft: Tomb Raider has led to more films materializing. Doom, a game which film makers were trying to cross over since the mid 90s is finally going into production. John Woo is also producing a movie on the popular Nintendo game, Metroid.

Films like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which has received mixed responses from audiences, and Uwe Boll's House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark, which both ended up being horrible flops both in fan reactions and box office success and the former ending up on the IMDB's bottom 100 movies, do not, in turn, give much confidence in whether these movies will be handled seriously.

Also, video games have found themselves on MTV2, in a popular show called Video Mod, where characters from popular video games perform songs from hit artists, such as characters from The Sims 2 performing the song "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains Of Wayne. webcomics