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Madeline. Madeline is a series of educational point-and-click adventure video games which were developed during the mid-1990s for Windows and Mac systems. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The games are an extension of the Madeline series of children's books by Ludwig Bemelmans, which describe the adventures of a young French girl. The video-game series was produced ...
An opponent non-player character in a video game that is typically much more difficult to defeat compared to normal enemies, often at the end of a level or a game. bot Short for robot. A non-playable character which is controlled by an artificial intelligence (AI). The player may compete against or work with a bot to complete objectives.
This category has the following 27 subcategories, out of 27 total. Video game characters by company (20 C) Video game characters by designer (8 C) Video game characters by franchise (64 C) Video game characters by game (23 C) Video game characters by gender (4 C) Video game characters by genre (9 C) Video game characters ...
A video game, [a] also known as a computer game or just a game, is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld ...
Home Alone is the title of several tie-in video games based on the 1990 film of the same name written by John Hughes. Versions were released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Master System, Sega Genesis, Game Gear, Amiga, and MS-DOS platforms. The games were released between 1991 and 1992 ...
Games and learning. Games and learning is a field of education research that studies what is learned by playing video games, and how the design principles, data and communities of video game play can be used to develop new learning environments. Video games create new social and cultural worlds – worlds that help people learn by integrating ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Home video game consoles. A home video game console is a type of video game console that is mainly used for home gamers, as opposed to those in arcades and other commercial establishment. Some of them are small as their own controller, and others can be the size of a large car battery.
e. The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...