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A casual game is a video game targeted at or used by a mass audience of casual gamers.

Casual games can have any type of gameplay, and fit in any genre.

They are typically distinguished by their simple rules and lack of commitment required in contrast to more complex hardcore games.

They require no long-term time commitment or special skills to play, and there are comparatively low production and distribution costs for the producer.

A browser game is a computer game that is played over the Internet using a web browser.

Browser games can be run using standard web technologies or browser plug-ins.

The creation of such games usually involves use of standard web technologies as a frontend and other technologies to provide a backend.

Browser games include all video game genres and can be single-player or multiplayer.

Browser games are also portable and can be played on multiple different devices, web browsers, and operating systems.

A video game with nonlinear gameplay presents players with challenges that can be completed in a number of different sequences.

Each player may see only some of the challenges possible, and the same challenges may be played in a different order.

Conversely, a video game with linear gameplay will confront a player with a fixed sequence of challenges: every player sees every challenge and sees them in the same order.

An arcade game or coin-op is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.

Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games or merchandisers.

While exact dates are debated, the golden age of arcade video games is usually defined as a period beginning sometime in the late 1970s and ending sometime in the mid-1980s.

Excluding a brief resurgence in the early 1990s, the arcade industry subsequently declined in the Western hemisphere as competing home-based video game consoles such as Playstation and Xbox increased in their graphics and game-play capability and decreased in cost.

An online game is a video game that is either partially or primarily played through the Internet or another computer network.

Online games are ubiquitous on modern gaming platforms, including PCs, consoles and mobile devices, and span many genres, including first-person shooters, strategy games and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG).