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21 Mar 2023, 11:19 am

I tend to associate "video game" with games played on consoles and "computer game" with games played on PCs. However PCs use video technology and consoles are a type of computer, so are the terms really synonyms?



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21 Mar 2023, 11:20 am

Effectively.

Consoles are computers, but also there's practically zero separation between console gaming and PC gaming these days.


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21 Mar 2023, 7:22 pm

To me a computer game is one that more or less requires a mouse and a keyboard.

Stellaris is a computer game.

A video game is one that I tend to think of that could be played with a video game controller with ease.

So I'm sure Stellaris could be played with a video game controller, but it wouldn't be a pleasant experience.



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21 Mar 2023, 8:04 pm

stratozyck wrote:
To me a computer game is one that more or less requires a mouse and a keyboard.

Stellaris is a computer game.

A video game is one that I tend to think of that could be played with a video game controller with ease.

So I'm sure Stellaris could be played with a video game controller, but it wouldn't be a pleasant experience.


So, what about simulators you play with a wheel or a flight yoke? 8)


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22 Mar 2023, 6:55 am

stratozyck wrote:
To me a computer game is one that more or less requires a mouse and a keyboard.

Stellaris is a computer game.

A video game is one that I tend to think of that could be played with a video game controller with ease.

So I'm sure Stellaris could be played with a video game controller, but it wouldn't be a pleasant experience.
One of the very early Nintendo console systems released in Japan before the Nintendo system was called, The Family Computer. However I tend to think a computer game requires a computer system like Windows & Mac/Apple desktops & laptops. Whereas a video game is most any other gaming that is played on a video screen like TV screens(such as Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, & Atari), Arcade systems, & also games on hand held devices(such as Game Boy, games on phones & tablets, & games on graphing calculators).


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22 Mar 2023, 9:17 am

Im from UK and I call everything computer games. I noticed Americans call them videogames.



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29 Mar 2023, 2:06 am

Video games would include the subset of both console and desktop computer games.


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