A PC game, also referred to as a video game or pc game, may be a sort of computer game played on a private computer instead of a computer game console or arcade machine.
Its defining characteristics include: more diverse and user-determined gaming hardware and software; and usually greater capacity in input, processing, video and audio output.
The uncoordinated nature of the PC game market, and now its lack of physical media, make precisely assessing its size difficult.
Home computer games became popular following the computer game crash of 1983, resulting in the age of the "bedroom coder".
within the 1990s, PC games lost mass-market traction to console games, before enjoying a resurgence within the mid-2000s through digital distribution.
