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Video Games as Art 3

Does anybody actually care about video games/art? Because it seems like not many people are actually reading these entries. Is it because they’re too long, or that you’re just not interested? Please let us know!

Either way, this is my response to Greg’s response to my original post about video games as art:

I think the analogy of video games to film (before TV, of course) and even to theater (before movies, of course) is pretty apt: when a new medium comes along, the older one gets elevated to the status of “Art” an the new one to “entertainment.”

On what people interpret as “Art”: I think it is less important that somebody, somewhere interpret video games as art than it is for there to be:
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