What makes the perfect video game? For many, it’s a seamless blend of character, storytelling, design, audio, and game mechanics, for others it's pure simplicity, and for some it's for innovation.

1. Introduction : Games are not films! But- -- 2. Push start button: the rise of video games : Invaders in our homes: the birth of home consoles ; "Well it needs sound": the birth of personal ...

Elizabeth Orchard is a Toronto-based content writer, copy editor, and lifelong gamer. She's been playing visual novels and farming sims since she was ten years old, graduating into a hardcore love of ...