roberto's Blog - definitions of "videogame"?

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A few days ago on this very same board, I was having an interesting discussion with a well respected member of the forum that made me finally understand why there are still many heated debates on which is the “first video game ever”. Simply put, people can’t even agree on how "videogames" should be defined so, of course, there can’t be any agreement on which was the first video game at all!

Maybe it is not that surprising considering that there is no universally accepted definition for what a "game" is either, but still I found it quite interesting and amusing...

 

My very general view is that a game that is played by electronic means looking at a screen where we can interactively control the behavior and on/off switching of pixels is a “video game” regardless of the specific technique used to do so...

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/358/entry-7016-definitions-of-videogame/