Get with the Program Nodwick All Games Release Dates Developers, freelance press and our staff voted on what we thought were the best games of all time. Still, longevity isn't the only way to separate art from its supposedly poor cousin, popular entertainment. Another criterion that's often applied when trying to tell the two apart is innovation. Jimi Hendrix isn't just admired because he played guitar with amazing virtuosity, but because he played it in ways no one had heard before.
Games are on great footing if innovation is used to judge their merit.
Sure, there's an endless string of copycats every year. Just imagine being around to see the first plays or earliest films. That's the situation in which we're lucky enough to find ourselves, and as the whole world becomes wired, electronic entertainment can only grow. We're seeing the beginnings of what could one day be, in all its unimaginable offshoots and incarnations, most people's primary form of entertainment. Another way to judge whether an entertainment is art is to ask how influential it is.