# Crash Course: Games **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 15, 2021, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crash-course-games/930572 "2021-01-15T06:18:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crash-course-games/930572/1 "2021-01-15T06:18:17Z")
I love the YouTube channel [Crash Course](https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse). Except for one series, which naturally is the one I’m going to talk about. There’s a series on [Games](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVTNtlq3-44&list=PLH2l6uzC4UEWaxXuH9MRuhcylnsyzjgmQ). It consists of twenty-nine separate episodes. Here is the breakdown for what topics are covered on these episodes: 1. An introduction to the course 2. A history of the origins of games in ancient times 3. Video games 4. Video games 5. Video games 6. Video games 7. Video games 8. Video games 9. Video games 10. Video games 11. Video games 12. Video games 13. Card games 14. Board games 15. Educational games - mostly video games 16. Psychology of games - with an emphasis of video games 17. Sports 18. Role-playing games 19. Designing games - with an emphasis on video games 20. Video games 21. Video games 22. Video games 23. Video games 24. Video games 25. Game shows 26. Live action role-playing games 27. Gambling 28. Pokemon 29. The future of games - surprise twist ending; it will involve video games I have to say I did not find this to be a completely balanced treatment of the subject. I feel there may have been just a little too much emphasis placed on one particular form of gaming. It’s like if I wrote a thirty chapter history of the world and devoted twenty chapters to the United States. Seriously, I think I would have been happier if they had thrown out everything else and just made this a twenty episode series on Video Games. Or am I showing my age? Maybe I’m just out of touch with the topic. Should a history of games focus the majority of its efforts on video games? ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crash-course-games/930572/2 "2021-01-15T07:46:27Z")
Looks to me like the series is basically about video games, only talking about other modes of game-playing to provide historical context. The ‘problem’ is that the title ‘Games’ assumes video-gaming as the default; which probably is age-related… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crash-course-games/930572/3 "2021-01-15T11:35:54Z")
Yeah, I’d expect that if you’re going to touch on board games and card games at all, you’d have an entire episode each on chess and poker.