restrictions such as the processing power of central or graphics processing units. Some of the earliest video games were text games or text-based games that used...

Isometric video game graphics are graphics employed in video games and pixel art that use a parallel projection, but which angle the viewpoint to reveal...

In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene, most often in a 2D video game. Originally, the term...

flip-screen graphics to scrolling graphics during the golden age of arcade games was a pivotal leap in game design, comparable to the move to 3D graphics during...

the mid-1990s. Although generally replaced in favor of video games that use non-textual graphics, text-based games continue to be written by independent...

A tile-based video game, or grid-based video game, is a type of video game where the playing area consists of small square (or, much less often, rectangular...

A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially...

computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles...

arcade game started the trend of realistic military-themed action shooters, and featured side-scrolling environments and high-quality graphics for the...

Video gaming in the United States is one of the fastest-growing entertainment industries in the country. The American video game industry is the largest...

1990s video games employed this graphics technique for effects such as reflection and bump-mapping and usually for terrain rendering. Outcast's graphics engine...

A video game remake is a video game closely adapted from an earlier title, usually for the purpose of modernizing a game with updated graphics for newer...

levels and graphics data. Since the golden age of arcade video games, it became common for video game companies to develop in-house game engines for...

Full-motion video (FMV) is a video game narration technique that relies upon pre-recorded video files (rather than sprites, vectors, or 3D models) to...

stereo display. Such games should not be confused with video games that use 3D game graphics on a mono screen, which give the illusion of depth only...

Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a video display controller and accompanying de facto graphics standard, first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers...

3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3-D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of...

Paperboy is an action game developed and published by Atari Games and released as an arcade video game in 1985. The player takes the role of a paperboy...

the vector graphics-based Asteroids in 1979, made possible by new computing technology that had greater power and lower costs. Arcade video games switched...

early example of 3D graphics in video games, and has enemies and objects as 2D images, a technique sometimes referred to as 2.5D graphics. Doom was the third...

camera systems, video game developers use techniques such as constraint solvers, artificial intelligence scripts, or autonomous agents. In video games, "third-person"...

simulation video game developed by Will Wright, and released for several platforms from 1989 to 1991. SimCity features two-dimensional graphics and an overhead...

was using wire frame graphics for everything from character models to environments, paying homage to early video game graphics such as were seen in the...

had more advanced graphics and sound capabilities than the prior generation of computers, and made for key platforms for video game development, particularly...

interactive 3D computer graphics, typically using a graphics processing unit (GPU). One example of this concept is a video game that rapidly renders changing...

Certain video games often gain negative reception from reviewers perceiving them as having low-quality or outdated graphics, glitches, poor controls for...

memory. It is common in Intel and AMD processors with integrated graphics, SoCs and video game consoles. Supported on some discrete GPUs with the use of an...

Asteroids is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade video game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc. The...

Isometric video game or isometric game may refer to: Isometric video game graphics, a style in video games, with the playfield viewed at an angle instead...

realistic graphics and gameplay. It has been criticized for its lack of content as well as for having server connection issues. The game's graphics and environments...