Over the last four decades, the role of video games in our society has changed significantly. In the 1970s, video games were played in teenagers' bedrooms. In 2014, teenagers still play them in their bedrooms, but now families also play them in the living room, and commuters play them every morning on their way to work. As well as a social change, the fundamental way in which we interact with video games has also changed, through a series of evolutions and revolutions. This paper aims to summarise human - video-game interaction by re ecting on these changes. This is followed by the concept of gaming-interaction literacy, which is the knowledge of how to appropriate device hardware to play different game types, gained from the experience of playing video games.

Keywords: Video-game interaction, HCI, Input devices, Gesture, Touch.