In the early 90`s a new form of entertainment appeared through the growing popularity of dedicated game console machines. Most of you probably remember them because of their consecrated characters: Sonic the Hedgehog or the extremely popular Super Mario Brothers. With the appearance of the Internet we find ourselves in front of a new gaming medium consecrated as a new and challenging gaming forum. New games emerged, enabling people to link up online and to game together.

The rise  of computer games as a leisure phenomenon was subject to little research and when it actually happened, researchers preferred a quantitative perspective rather than a qualitative one and mostly concentrated on the more negative aspects: excessive play and addiction.

Almost all of the research studies focused on arcade and console games.

Most of the studies showed that on the Internet, as a new medium for video games, the majority of the players were males, approximately 85% and over 60% of them were older than 19 years. The results of these recent surveys attempt to break a consecrated stereotypical image of an adolescent  online gamer. It has been proved that the typical online player is not a socially withdrawn young male with limited sex role identity, even though this kind of image continues to be misplaced and the image of a typical gamer is seen as socially negative, remaining firmly within  what has been called youth culture.

One of the positive aspects of the online gaming phenomenon has been displayed by the results of a recent online empirical survey, indicating that both altruism and reciprocity influence prosocial behavior simultaneously. So, male players are more likely than female players to seek friendship of opposite sex and for most of them the interaction among players is more important than actually playing the online game, creating premises for a prosocial behavior.

Online game communities, more than other virtual communities are designed to promote a real-world look and feel within the borders and many other unique properties of the cyberspace where anonymity rules. That why some of the researchers are still skeptic about how the results of previous prosocial behavior studies might be applicable to online communities. Still, in the case of social exchange theory, stating the expectation of obtaining  feedback and rewards after helping a person, virtual communities studies draw some very interesting conclusions. In this case, the feedback of reciprocity may come from the entire community rather than from a specific helped person.

Other studies regarding the impact of the online gaming showed that sometimes in the virtual gaming space, sex roles are changed and some of the online participants even play avatars of the opposite sex. Also the case of the  physical gaming space, mainly Internet Cafes, is very interesting because they were speculated as a masculine space and thus considered highly gendered. But male and female respondents exhibited similar patterns when predicting their intentions and behavior towards visiting Internet Cafes.

If you have probably thought that video games, computer games and Internet Cafes are part from a male`s adolescent  universe only, you were not entirely wrong, but stereotypical.The above mentioned aspects are just a few research aspects of this very challenging subject. Online gaming is a very powerful phenomenon, likely to produce addiction but with subtitle, yet numerous positive aspects, essential for a healthy, personal and social attitude.

One of the most popular cheat’s website for computer games is www. cheatcc .com. Here you can find cheats for many games. Let's see some cheats for the game Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sans. Just like in the Sands of Time trilogy, the Prince has up to three orbs that allow him to rewind during game play. This means if you do something wrong, you can backtrack a little bit and fix it.

But the Prince's powers don't end there. In a familiar fountain square, a genie named Razia will grant him other special abilities that will let him control the forces of nature. These gifts will be the key during game play, especially in plat forming segments. For example, you can freeze running water to turn it into frozen poles that'll help you overcome gaps, or you can solidify a waterfall and then run across it, landing safely onto the next ledge.

Eventually, he'll also be able to manipulate earth, fire, and air. As you advance, you'll have to strategize and use the powers efficiently. There's a gauge that drains as you use them, so you can't just go and utilize them willy-nilly. These special powers combined with his remarkable acrobatic skills will, no doubt, result in a quality plat forming experience. Another website with cheats for computer games is www. gamewinners .com . Here you can find cheats for many games, let’s see some examples.

Absolute zero 2006. this is the 2006 game developed by Ocean Breeze Games. This is the new version, do not confuse with Absolute zero from 1995 made by Eidos.

Hints - Fire without moving; Click on a block you want to hit. Your ice machine will automatically move to that location and drop the block. You will not have to move there first.

Power-ups; Save your points for the Row Cleaner or Bomb power-up to help complete levels faster. Now let’s see some cheats for A nightmare on Sesam street . Level skip Press the indicated key at the title screen to advance to the corresponding level.

Level	Key
1	A
2	E
3	I
4	O
5	U
WonderDweeb	Y

Glitches- Second weapon; Press [Ctrl] during a single player game with player one using the Joystick. A second stationary weapon will appear in the middle of the screen. To cycle through the weapons, press player two's secondary key.

Control both characters - Press [Ctrl] + Y at the title screen. Set the controls for both players to be the same (for example, both on Joystick 1). Start a two player game. You will now control both Ernie and Bert a single joystick or the keyboard. This is a website full of such cheats. Feel free to explore and be a game winner.