Computing and Video Games
- System console, a physical device to operate a computer
- Virtual console, a user interface for multiple computer consoles on one device
- Command-line interface, the typical use of the computer console
- Console applications are programs designed to be used via a text-only computer interface
- Terminal emulator, a program that substitutes for a computer console or computer terminal
- Win32 console, the terminal emulator of Microsoft Windows
- Console (Mac OS X), a log viewer on OS X
- Console (video game CLI), a command-line user interface element for personal computer games originating in Quake
- Video game console, a specific device for playing video games
- Handheld game console, a specific lightweight and portable device for playing video games
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Famous quotes containing the words video games, video and/or games:
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past—the portrayals of family life on such television programs as “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” and all the rest.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“As long as lightly all their livelong sessions,
Like a yardful of schoolboys out at recess
Before their plays and games were organized,
They yelling mix tag, hide-and-seek, hopscotch,
And leapfrog in each other’s way all’s well.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)