Ralph Baer is accredited as creating the first home video games console the brown box.

In general procedure a PC games refers to games that are played on a PC associated to a high resolution video monitor. A console game in the past has referred to a specialized single purpose electronic device that connects to a standard television set or compound video monitor. A hand held game is a self contained electronic device or small computer and monitor combination that is moveable and can be held in a user's hands. Arcade game normally refers to an even more specialized type of electronic device that is classically designed to play only one game and is covered in a special cabinet. These distinctions are not always clear and there may be games that viaduct one or more platform. There are also platforms that have non video game variations such as in the case of ele
ctromechanically based arcade games.