This paper describes the definition of video games, the progress of video games through history and their development. Video games started to develop in the year 1958. As the popularity of video games rised and their makers started to profit more, more companies started developing video games. With that, the development of video games progressed and they started to be longer, more complex, interesting. In the beginnings video games were made from simple tasks that gamers had to solve and they were made from a couple of pixels. Now, video games are extremely detailed, comlex and the outcomes change depending on the decisions and the course that the player takes. In the last few years, the gaming industry has been the most profitable industry in the world. With the progress of video games, the developers started to base their video games on accurate historical themes and on real locations. Some of the most popular and most accurately depicted video games are described in this paper. With the progress in the development of video games the topic of tourism accures and the question if historical video games and video games based on real locations have the potential to create additional tourist promotion of destinations also accures. In this paper, the theme of tourism is elucidated, as well as the common ways to promote tourism and the promotion of tourism through video games. In an intent of answering the question if historical video games and those based on real locations have the potential of creating additional tourist promotion of destinations a survey was conducted on 305 people from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.