The gaming industry has changed dramatically over the last five years. Many games in recent years have become technologically driven. Today, people use gaming consoles, iPods, phones and handheld devices. These electronics distract us from our every day duties. In the Elizabethan era, blood and violence was an immense source of entertainment and distraction. Nowadays, while we play most games that involve gore on electronic devices, in Elizabethan England the violence was played out in front of spectators (“Elizabethan”). Just like today, games and sports are played with a live audience. Many people in the Elizabethan era participated intensely in sports and games, especially blood sports. Some games that were played in the Elizabethan times are still played now, but many have changed names. Shuffleboard is a modern name for the former game called shovelboard. In multiple Shakespeare plays, dice and cards are used to play games. The most portable games were played with dice and cards. Cards in the Elizabethan era are not like they are now. They only had suits and face cards, as to now we have suits, face cards and numbers (Olsen 311). During the mid 1500s to the early 1600s they played a game called One and Thirty, known to us as blackjack. Colf was another very popular game that was played in Elizabethan England. Colf is the ancestor of golf. The clubs and balls were constructed from natural resources. The colf balls were made consisting of a leather casing, usually made from bull hide, soaked in alum and stuffed with softened goose feathers (“Elizabethan”). Seidel 2 Many games in the Elizabethan era were only played by the rich. Hawking and falconry was a trendy sport played by many natives. Only the rich could afford to train and shelter the birds, thus being the main participants in the sport. Nobles would commerce their birds with each other. They would fly the birds and train them to hunt other prey. This activity was