Gaming is relaxing, educational and keeps our brains active and healthy.
We are also attracted to using tools that are imaginative and creative in nature. Early Computers and Video Gamers Mechanical computing devices using gears appeared over a century ago, but they were fixed function calculators that were heavy and noisy. Modern computing, however, goes back to 1943 and a design to crack the German coding system called Lorenz cipher. It was typical of first generation computers , weighed 30 tons, contained 18,000 electronic valves and consumed around 25KWof electrical power. It was, however, capable of an amazing 100,000 calculations a second.