Have you ever wondered when computer games were created, how about why they started, that might be an interesting topic to discuss here today? Well, why don't we seriously explore this concept for a moment and look into the reality behind the first computer games and why they took hold and grew so rapidly into a 100 billion dollar industry over the years?

Obviously humans have played games for thousands of years. It was the Persian Empire that brought us the game of chess. The Chinese had a different version of a similar game. There have always been such games that people have enjoyed playing to pass the time. Perhaps it is these games that helped the human brain evolve to strategize and think of the future and to anticipate what was to come.

These games probably helped humans develop the skills needed to survive, to plan for winter and to plant crops; to build dams habitats. Mankind's fascination with playing games really should not surprise any of us. And when computers were first built the first computer games were very simple, games like pong were simple enough.

One of the first artificially intelligent computer programs perhaps was the one invented to play Tic Tac Toe with humans. Eventually we have converted all of our games into electronic forms and they have into evolved into terrific masterpieces of art and video.

These awesome games are such that they challenge our minds, reflexes and cunning. This is why computer gaming started and why they exists today; to challenge us, entertain us and to test us. Perhaps, you should go out and buy a computer game just to see how far things have come; we certainly live in interesting times and there is nothing more fascinating than computer game technology, combining art and science and introducing us to a virtual world.