Computer games are one of the main hobbies of the 21st century. People of all ages live by them, spending days and nights on their favorite pastime. Even if you play only from time to time or don’t play at all, you will probably be interested to know some facts from this area.

According to the Entertainment Software Association, the average age of a player is 33 years old.
Addiction to computer games is very similar to drug addiction. If fans of this entertainment do not manage to play for a long time, they experience real discomfort.
● Angry Birds has become one of the most profitable games in the format of mobile platforms. The company invested 100,000 euros in its development. The game has brought more than 60 million in net profit.
● The computer has beaten world chess champions many times, but there is one game in which the opposite is true: world champions beat the computer. This game is called Go. Modern computers cannot yet calculate all the moves of an opponent. In addition, the criteria for evaluating positions are still too complicated for a PC. The game of Go has a long history.
● The Sims was among the top ten best-selling games in the UK for two years.
The very first computer game was created in 1961 by a student Steve Russell. It was called Spacewar.
● There are several cases when people simply died of exhaustion due to prolonged time spent playing MMORPGs (World of warcraft, Lineage 2). There have also been many cases of clashes between clans in the “real world”, sometimes with sad consequences.
In 1994, they wanted to ban the game DOOM because of its excessive bloodshed.
● Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory was banned in South Korea because it shows the destroyed capital of Korea (Seoul).
Escape games are gaining momentum nowadays. Escape from prison or escape from an evil pursuer, these are the goals of the escape game. You need to be observant and smart to play this game.
● The best-selling game in history is Tetris. In total, more than 40 million copies of this game have been sold.
The largest computer game developer is Electronic Arts. This company annually publishes games worth more than $3 billion.
The licensed disks of Fifa 2001 had a smell of grass.
● In many games, developers inadvertently insert their names. For example, in Half Life 2, the names of the developers are indicated on the lockers in the locker room, and in Fable the Lost Chapters, the name of the company’s director is immortalized on a tombstone. And there are a lot of games like this.
● Back in the days of the first Diablo, there were rumors about a secret “Cow Level”. It was believed that if you clicked on a cow for a long time, a portal to a new level with cool monsters would open. It wasn’t true, but the developers did create a “Cow Level” in the second part of Diablo, where you had to fight cows walking on their hind legs, just for fun. The third part of the game was not spared either. There, you have to collect ingredients to get to the secret “Pony Level,” which doesn’t fit into the Diablo world at all, but looks more like a children’s cartoon.