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I was with this up until the bit about gaming PCs being two or three times the cost of consoles. That's just not right. The only time you're paying that is if you buy a brand name, pre-built PC, rather than having one built. Almost all PC games have settings you can tweak if they don't run...

This article generalises to the nth degree. Games are not art. Cinema is not art. Books are not, TV is not, 'art' is not. Music is not. SOME instances of any of these things ARE artistic, and deserve to be called art, though these instances in all areas are, arguably, considerably rarer than...

I disagree about music in retro gaming being less important or less potent, or indeed 'bad'. Most of what we get in modern games is thoughtlessly piled on orchestra, which works to some extent but is entirely forgetable, and easily ignored. Music in 8 and 16 bit games was often bad, true...