As someone who has Bejeweled on his cellphone, I also have to admit that I play casual games. The conventional thinking, that casual games are mainly for women, has been blown apart by this latest study:
The reason men have not been reflected in the data so far is because most males are fans of realistic "hardcore" games and many do not admit they like to play simpler games involving shiny gems or lines of colored balls.
People have to remember, most guys grew up playing "casual games" on their portable gaming devices. Tetris and Breakout totally wore out the screen on my Gameboy. Also, most arcade games of 1980's could be classified as casual games today. Single screen games, like Space Invaders, as opposed to side-scrollers or platform jumpers, like Super Mario Brothers or Defender, didn't need you to pay that much attention to the game, at least until things started going super-crazy like in Galaga. But if men want to spend three hours playing a game, instead of watching lame network television, then bring on the flesh-rotting zombies!
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