OM 5 - Alexander R. Galloway

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Der erste Teil

"Video games are games, yes, but more importantly they are software systems ... In blunt terms, the video game Dope Wars has more in common with the finance software Quicken than it does with traditional games like chess, roulette, or billiards" (6). This citation from your book brings us to the games as something totally different from normal games, where, following Huizinga, man can enter the so-called magic circle, where he is entirely separated from society and political events. But video games are something completely different ..."