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1. INGLÉS – TERCERO MEDIO
2016
Hecho y subido por Yawahoo
Agradecimientos: profesora Solange Gutiérrez

2. Instructions
“Create a short presentation about a topic of your interest”.

3. What is a video game?
It’s an electronic game that is visualized by a display, in two or three
dimensions. It can be controlled by one or more persons, using
keyboards, touch screens or gamepads, that are showed in the next
images.
This games can be played on computers, cellphones, etc. There are
devices that are specialized to run videogames:
video game consoles.

4. Platforms
The video games can be played in multiple devices, for example:
Smartphones
Video game consoles
Computers

5. Money involved
The video games are increasingly more expensive, for developers
and for players. To make games like the ones that are currently, with its
high quality, is too much harder than some years ago. The difference in
graphics through the time can be observed in this images:
1996 2012
Resident Evil 1 Resident Evil 6

6. The videogames of the past were much simpler, so developers could
make them faster. With the pass of the time, this way of entertainment
became even more expensive and productive for who makes them;
video games are a serious business that moves a lot of money.
The most expensive game till now is Destiny, with a cost of production
of $500 millions dollars with 5 years of development, and launched
on september, 2014.
The persons that are fanatics of videogames are denominated
“gamers”.

7. Examples of current and popular video games
Grand Theft Auto V
The Last of Us
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Pokémon X and Y

8. Online gaming
The first chance to play at the same time with others, using internet,
was in 1986, with the launch of a game called Habitat, for computers.
Today, many persons play with others online, in different devices, in
different parts of the world, because is better than playing alone or with
bots (artificial players), even is a way to socialize behind a screen. With
the online experience, the world of video games changed.

9. Conclusion
The first video game (probably) was Pong, a simple and
famous game of the first generation of consoles, launched on
the ancient console Atari, in 1972. It’s shown in the right image.
In the present, we can see that the games
have evolved a lot, and have became so
popular that is even an addiction for some
persons. There are video games of any
kind, and they entertain and distract us,
and the quality, depth and productivity of
some of them have reached, or overtake
the level of a movie.

10. Fin de la presentación