Computer Games - Hyperreality.

Genres of computer games:

• Virtual reality
• Sport
• Driving/racing
• Casino
• Action adventure
• First Person Shooter
• Sci-fi
• Puzzle games
• Platform
• 3rd Person
• Music
• Strategy
• Management
• Shot-them-up
• Beat-them-up

Typical features of computer games:

• Levels/missions
• Power-ups
• Rewards/coins
• Puzzles/problems
• Progressive difficulty
• Linear structure
• Binary opposites

With improved graphics games can look more realistic e.g. football games with players who look like real players

Games will program instructions into the loading screen because the manufacturers know that people won't read an instruction manual to learn how to play.