OF THE ANCIENT GAME TO THE COMPUTER GAME Historical role of the game in the development of digital technology

Computer Games seems to be a modern phenomenon, but their deep roots talk about the Classical Antiquity and about a rational way to understand the Nature in the Western Culture. Nowadays computer game technologies are linked to the most significant advances in the Digital World and computers have become an imperative tool for the industrial and cultural development. Games and the "intelligent machines" - automatons and all kind of computer machines- have evolved together from the past to the present as a reflection of a way to rationalize the human experience.