15th April 2003, 12:28 PM
A video game is not a video game unless you manipulate images on a screen. It's as simple as that. You can think otherwise and consider those "choose your own adventure" e-books to be video games but you'd be wrong. Video games are defined by the games that started it all, games where you controlled images on a screen, be that Tic Tac Toe, Space War, or Tennis for Two. It is not a video game if you do not have any control over the images on the screen! It's as simple as that! The second defintion obviously only covers one aspect of video games because you can play against a human opponent in a video game.
And ABF, I said that if you have some sort of control over the image in a text-based game then it is a video game. But if it has text and text only then it is not technically a video game. You still haven't answered by question regarding when the first text-based computer game came out.
And ABF, I said that if you have some sort of control over the image in a text-based game then it is a video game. But if it has text and text only then it is not technically a video game. You still haven't answered by question regarding when the first text-based computer game came out.