Can anyone tell me what video games actually are?

>>387291263
a great way to introduce people to marxism

>>387291263
The bigger question :

What is /v/?

They're games of videos

>>387291263
Video Games. VG. Vitriolic Gardens.

Anything that's generally regarded as video games.

>>387291263
I can tell you what they're not: art and movies.

>>387291263
games in video form

Games made with software.

Hipster shit.

>>387291263
games made in software format

Computer + games = video games

like movies but better.

Games you play on a TV with a controller

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but as of the 2000s, it implies any type of display device that can produce two- or three-dimensional images. Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial.

The electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms; examples of these are personal computers and video game consoles. These platforms range from large mainframe computers to small handheld computing devices. Specialized video games such as arcade games, in which the video game components are housed in a large, typically coin-operated chassis, while common in the 1980s in video arcades, have gradually declined due to the widespread availability of affordable home video game consoles (e.g., PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Wii U) and video games on desktop and laptop computers and smartphones.

The input device used for games, the game controller, varies across platforms. Common controllers include gamepads, joysticks, mouse devices, keyboards, the touchscreens of mobile devices, and buttons, or even, with the Kinect sensor, a person's hands and body. Players typically view the game on a video screen or television or computer monitor, or sometimes on virtual reality head-mounted display goggles. There are often game sound effects, music and, in the 2010s, voice actor lines which come from loudspeakers or headphones. Some games in the 2000s include haptic, vibration-creating effects, force feedback peripherals and virtual reality headsets.

>>387295526
Lol nah

>>387291263
Games (an activity that is considered Play, for one person or several. Ex: tag, marbles, catch, etc...) which are broadcast through video (or visuals on a screen or from a projector) and manipulated by a controller or device (buttons, keyboard, mouse, touch input, etc...)

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>>387291263
They are windows into separate, alternative realities. There, I said it. Are you happy now? They will come now, and you know it. Things will never be the same again.

>>387291263
A video game is the automation of fun, where fun is described as the instinctive training of behaviours associated with survival.

>>387295526
This definition is all over the place.

buncha ones n zeros