The earliest actual computer and video games date back to the 1950s and 1960s but the first golden age of computer gaming was surely the 1980s when home computers such as the Commodore 64 became high fashion among children and teenagers around Europe and America.

Nowadays computer and video games are big business, in fact, computer and video games are the biggest entertainment business today, stronger than both the music and the film industry. There are numerous games out there and numerous genres.

Examples of different computer and video game genres would be platform games, adventures, roleplaying games, shooters, etc.

Keynote speakers on computer and video games typically deal with the many and varied genres of games, on the history and cultural importance and influence of computer and video games.