Introduction Game software can be characterized into four main categories: computer games, video games, arcade games, and Internet games. They consist of interactive multimedia based products such as: adventure, arcade, flight simulation, strategy, sports, shoot-em-up, fighting, and kids' games. Computer games are basically created to run on personal computers. Video games require specialized hardware (i.e., the Sony Playstation, Nintendo, etc.) (Dixon and ... 's server. Revenues for peer-to-peer games are based on advertising and e-commerce (Kissel, 1999). The game industry in Korea sprung u...

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... name and intellectual property rights. The company plans to update the classic games and make them compatible with today's gaming systems. "There has been a resurgence of interest in the classic video game concept," says Hasbro spokeswoman Dana Henry. "And there's a huge community on the Internet wanting to keep classic games alive"(Lanier, 1998). Today gamers can visit www.atariage.com ... of Playstation produced new more technologically advanced games. This placed Sony Playstation above Nintendo, where it remains today (mpog). Nintendo's next innovation, GameCube, was released November...

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... around the enhanced interactivity a player could have whilst building a city, empire or army etc. These games readily involved configuring various parts of the keyboard and mouse to allow the game to be played effectively. The player literally has the power to control everything within the city's or worlds they create, from obtaining fundamental components such as money or machinery, to ... Super Nintendo. Which firmly brings us to the consoles of today or next generation? Today's consoles are tiny supercomputers which have immense graphical processing power, systems like the Playstatio...

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