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Answers for The movie Video Games


1) Some of the reasons why videogames were successful because some of them are addicting to play such as Super Mario, Mario Kart and etc. Those games were addicting to play. When I was around grade 2 or 3 I spent hours and hours on those games on my DS. To make a game popular I think you would want to make it addicting so people would spend hours and hours on the game.

2) The reasons why the video game industry crashed in the 1980s are because the revenue had peaked around $3.2 billion in 1983 then fell to around $100 million in 1985. The crashed brought an abrupt end to what is retrospectively which is considered a second generation of console gaming in North America .

3) Yes I think video game is a kind of art because people would need to design the characters, buildings and other things to make the game fun.

4) Video games have all ready started with the VR which is Virtual Reality and I think in the future it would be something like the VR