Why Do We Like Computer Games?

What’s your favorite way of spending your free time? Statistics say that if you ask that question to men with ages between eighteen and thirty-four, the answer you are most likely to get is playing computer games. The same goes for women, only that the proportion is considerably smaller.
Playing a game on your computer may not be the most educational way of spending time, but it sure is fun. You enter a whole new world where you set off for adventure, a world where you are the hero and you decide what happens next. How many times have you wished that the same were possible in real life, just as it is in a computer game?
Every game is a challenge. If we are talking about sports games, the challenge is obvious, namely that of outperforming your opponent and eventually winning. Take football games, for instance. Football is the most loved sport in the world. Any large competition gathers millions of people from all over the world in front of their TV sets, watching and betting on the final outcome of each football match. At a smaller scale, football is the most popular sport in many countries worldwide. Playing a football game on the computer give people the chance to have access to the competition that they can only observe in real life. And once again, it all comes down to calling the shots and being the best there is, either against the computer or against an opponent from the real world.
