From their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which now approach film in terms of their visual excitement.

1: Theoretical Concerns; 1: Video Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon; 2: Narratives in the Electronic Age; 3: Video Games as Cultural Indicators; 4: A Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective on Video Games; 2: Analyzing Representative Games; 5: Myst, Riven , and the Adventure Video Game; 6: Lara Croft and the Problem of Gender in Video Games; 7: Half-Life and the Problem of Monsters; 8: Conclusions