24th December 2003, 7:02 PM
Right, I remember it now... E-Books are not games because they are not interactive, obviously... and no, the page control buttons in Acrobat Reader don't count. :)
I still don't see why I should care if by your technical definition Zork is a "computer game" or "video game"...
Oh, I have a question. Why do you insist on bringing this up again and again and again when I have said that it doesn't matter much to what I am trying to talk about? It's pretty frusterating to write long posts and have you yell at me for something that I have explained ten times in this post I don't think really matters in the current debate!
Quote:In order for something to be a video game you have to be manipulating images on some kind of a screen. Otherwise it cannot be classified as a video game. Text-based game involve [b]zero[/i] image manipulation. So what does that mean? Come on, you can do it! Give me the right answer!
I still don't see why I should care if by your technical definition Zork is a "computer game" or "video game"...
Oh, I have a question. Why do you insist on bringing this up again and again and again when I have said that it doesn't matter much to what I am trying to talk about? It's pretty frusterating to write long posts and have you yell at me for something that I have explained ten times in this post I don't think really matters in the current debate!