Are Games Art?

[King Hadas]

Applied art? Fine art? You're making me look shit up Grislygus, I'm not sure how I feel about that.

If something needs a majority vote to be art I don't think video games will ever make it since they're just to inaccessible. Just getting the equipment together is complicated, not to mention expensive. And then actually learning the controls for each game, I've been playing them my whole life so I have something like video game literacy but for someone new it'd probably be frustrating.

Most likely video games will never be accepted socially as art. Only I, and my brave, stalwart companions can see the towering aesthetic plateaus of such video games as Donkey Kong Country 3 and Jackie Chan: Stuntmaster.