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Every August 29th, World Video Game Day or Gamer's Day is celebrated, a celebration that emerged in 2008 by the main magazines specializing in video games in the market.
Until a few years ago, video game lovers were considered freaks, but nowadays, it is rare to find a house that does not have at least one console from one of the three greatest legendary brands: Nintendo, Play Station and XBOX.
Why do we like video games?
Video games have become a way of life, and now with mobile technologies the video game market has expanded even further.
A form of entertainment and a lifestyle
Video games are a type of playful tool that, with the passage of time and thanks to new technologies, have expanded in a vertiginous way and have become one of the main forms of entertainment. The video game boom has been so significant that it's here to stay, and today there are millions of fans of this practice who have set aside other more traditional ways of entertaining themselves, such as board games.How are video games born?
Video games were born from the year 1948, thanks to the ingenuity of Thomas Goldsmith and Estle Ray Man, who developed and patented a video game and which they called "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device".
From there, other games would emerge, such as the one called OXO, Tennis for Two, or the also famous "Spacewar". Over the years, video games had new and improved versions, but it was not until the decade of the seventies that the golden age of video games was born, which reached record sales in different countries around the world, whose evolution and fanaticism has not stopped until today.Video games are already part of a culture, where millions of children and adults make them a playful activity that can lead them to spend hours in front of a screen. For this reason, it is that from the year 2008 the magazines PC Manía, PlayManía and Hobby Consolas joined to create a special day for video games.
