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  2. Home video game console - Wikipedia

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    A home video game console is a predesigned piece of electronic hardware that is meant to be placed at a fixed location at one's home, connected to a display like a television screen or computer monitor, and to an external power source, to play video games on using one or more video game controllers.

  3. Video game console - Wikipedia

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    A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can typically be played with a game controller.These may be home consoles, which are generally placed in a permanent location connected to a television or other display devices and controlled with a separate game controller, or handheld consoles, which include their own display unit ...

  4. Gaming computer - Wikipedia

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    A gaming computer, also known as a gaming PC, is a specialized personal computer designed for playing PC games at high standards. They typically differ from mainstream personal computers by using high-performance graphics cards , a high core-count CPU with higher raw performance and higher-performance RAM .

  5. Virtual machine - Wikipedia

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    Process virtual machines are designed to execute computer programs in a platform-independent environment. Some virtual machine emulators, such as QEMU and video game console emulators , are designed to also emulate (or "virtually imitate") different system architectures, thus allowing execution of software applications and operating systems ...

  6. Electronic game - Wikipedia

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    A personal computer video game (also known as a computer game or simply PC game) is a video game played on a personal computer. This is opposed to video game consoles or arcade machines, which are not considered personal computers. Computer games became a form of video games, and since the earliest days of the medium, visual displays such as ...

  7. History of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    With more than 101 million units sold, the Nintendo Wii is the best-selling home video game console in the seventh generation. The release of the Xbox 360 began the seventh generation. Video game consoles had become an important part of the global IT infrastructure by the mid-2000s. It was estimated that video game consoles represented 25% of ...

  8. PC game - Wikipedia

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    A personal computer game, also known as a computer game [a] or abbreviated PC game, is a video game played on a personal computer (PC). The term PC game has been popularly used since the 1990s referring specifically to games on "Wintel" (Microsoft Windows software/Intel hardware) which has dominated the computer industry since.

  9. Virtuality (product) - Wikipedia

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    Virtuality was a range of virtual reality machines produced by Virtuality Group, and found in video arcades in the early 1990s. [1] The machines delivered real-time VR gaming via a stereoscopic VR headset, joysticks, tracking devices and networked units for a multi-player experience.