WhaT IS A VIDEOGAME?

Can you play videogames with no video?

Well video games should be considered anything you cant do in other forms
Monopoly not a videogame but is a boardgame in videogame formatt.
Text games written on paper?

No Sonic on paper

Text Game = not video game
Boardgame= not video game
Audio Game= not video game you can play a video game without sound
Sports doesn' t count because you can' t play in but two formatts, real and video.
on paper it would be a text or board game
Stuff like Mousetrap is a toy with rules.

Real life actions are an exception because something is done in all of these situations
All of this stuff can be done in a video game.

I took this from some wonderful person on a thewiire

What would you call a real video game?
Analyze video and game together and seperately.

Analyze different genres.

Pick Specifics that would classify it as a videogame:
What would not.
And different traits come together to make a video game.

What doesn' t deserve to be called a video game?

What doesn' t deserve to be called a video game?


Monopoly for the Snes and other console, who want' s to play on a console when you can gather friends and family together and play it as a boardgame, its funner to bankrupt you' re friends money then a CPU.

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