- videogame
- video game
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Please motivate your answer with a 300 word essay. This test is worth 80% of your grade this semester.
My head says video game, my lazy hands often say videogame. The little Scottish kid I used to be before the internet ironed out all of my Briticisms still insists it’s “computer game”.
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The answer is always videogame in my book. But yeah, that’s only because “computer game” has fallen out of fashion.
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David cage told me it was “interactive drama"
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Vidcon
Clearly the true answer is neither, just use game and for anything else you slap something in front of it, cardgame, board game, or just go to acronym hell with TTRPG.
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It is, objectively, a computer game. A video game would be, for example, Atmosphere 2.
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My buddy and I will sometimes call them “bideo games” or “vidyal games”, so my answer is probably not valid in the slightest
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most persuasive argument I’ve seen for ‘videogame’ (by Greg Wohlwend back in the twitter days) is that not every videogame is a game.
(examples: Dear Esther, Proteus, Townscaper)
despite this, I use both terms interchangeably based entirely on whim.
You’re right and you should say it.
I’m a cool millenial, so I have to say “gamez” (even if singular).
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C) Bideo James
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the thing is i’m only including the video part in the first place if i want to be ironically hyper verbose in which case the space adds
I’ve started using “digital interactive experience” because I’m a pretentious bitch.
Also it acronyms to “DIE”.
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I think I’ve usually just used “game“ because video feels a little redundant when I’m sat in front of screens 24 hours a day. Video game gives me the same vibe as saying “moving picture“ instead of “movie“.
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to quote my dude sean seanson: video games: don’t worry about it!
but also, video games are a fuckin nightmare
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absolutely no skin in this game i just like “video games” more aesthetically
the rest of this essay is left as an exercise to the reader
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every time i see “video game” i assume it is posted by a narc
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Gotta be video game. The word video is an adjective narrowing the category game. My preference if I could fight the tide would be that we called them all “computer games,” though. Consoles and arcade cabinets are also computers, and computerization is the defining trait that differentiates these games from traditional and tabletop games. Whereas video output is not actually a universal property of all video games. The original Oregon Trail, among others, relied on printer output; the Vectrex showed a weird bespoke thing, not video; and does anyone else remember that audio-only port of Skyrim?