and therefore there was relationship between gender and game genre. Boys were much more inclined to play games within the action
category (25% for boys as opposed to 4% for girls) while girls preferred games classified as other (29% for girls and 7% for boys). Games within
the ‘Action’ category included Spyro (Activision, 2008) and Medal of Honour (Electronic Arts, 1999), whilst games within the ‘Other’ category
included Brain Training (Nintendo, 2006) and Buzz! (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, 2005). In terms of descriptive data presented in
Table 2, both boys and girls preferred to play ‘Simulation’ games than any other game genre with 42% and 45% respectively