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OmegaDog

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"Video games in libraries: how much longer?" , posted Sat 22 May 16:41

You might be in an area where a local library has a good source of non-print media -- not just books on tape, but music albums and even movies.

With video games making at least slowly becoming recognized as legitimate works of fiction -- or maybe even slightly non-fiction in some cases -- how long (in a quantitative or qualitative sense) do you think it might be before we start seeing video games in major libraries, if not already?

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Burning Ranger

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"Re(1):Video games in libraries: how much long" , posted Sat 22 May 19:25

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You might be in an area where a local library has a good source of non-print media -- not just books on tape, but music albums and even movies.

With video games making at least slowly becoming recognized as legitimate works of fiction -- or maybe even slightly non-fiction in some cases -- how long (in a quantitative or qualitative sense) do you think it might be before we start seeing video games in major libraries, if not already?

Well, there is still a widespread belief that video games aren't really on the same level of movies and music. In academia, not a lot of research is devoted to video games because they aren't really considered legitimate cultural artifacts.

But, times are changing. Sure we are seeing higher production values, and Hollywood talent associated with games. We might see video games in libraries in the future, but not the near future. While some of us may not see a difference between artworks like movies and games, but others do.

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"Re(2):Video games in libraries: how much long" , posted Sat 22 May 19:45

Hmmmm....who knows. I speculate that in time,we might be seeing them. Most possibly the CD-ROM kind. I know we don't have any in our library here. At least not that I'm aware of.

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"Re(3):Video games in libraries: how much long" , posted Sat 22 May 21:40:

People are blind fools if they really believe that games like Doom aren't having any influences upon societies, cultures, and histories. I believe there was a top 100 list done by a website for most influential games of all time...

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"Video games in libraries: how much longer?" , posted Sun 23 May 06:57

It wouldn't be feasible. Imagine scads of kids clustered around the games area, screaming that it's their turn nownowNOW!.

Rather contrary to a peaceful enviroment, eh?

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Burning Ranger

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"Re(1):Video games in libraries: how much long" , posted Sun 23 May 08:55

Also consider another factor:

A lot of books in our public libraries have themes and ideas that can be considered far worse than are in movies and video games. There is a ton of violence, profanity, sex (both heterosexual and homosexual), crime, anti-American sentiment, and others, all available in libraries and bookstores. But then, the mainstream doesn't really look at this, do they? They look at movies and video games, because right off the bat, you know what you're getting. That's why so much emphasis is put on censoring efforts in TV, Film, Radio, and Video Games. I'm willing to bet you that if there is some initiative to introduce video games into a library setting, some goody-two-shoes group is going to object on these grounds that content. But it would be hypocritical in that libraries would have content that is just as controversial.

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"Re(2):Video games in libraries: how much long" , posted Sun 23 May 10:15

If it helps, I've made a point to include Ico as one of the examples in my paper on invented languages. My teacher wanted me to stay only with book sources, but I kept Ico in there.

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"Re(2):Video games in libraries: how much long" , posted Sun 23 May 11:20

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But it would be hypocritical in that libraries would have content that is just as controversial.

Yes, but books are better written than videogames.
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Ishmael

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"Re(3):Video games in libraries: how much long" , posted Sun 23 May 15:40

There are videogames in libraries already, but not very many of them. The collections for academic libraries all depend upon what classes are being offered or whether or not a professor has interest in it for research purposes. With public libraries it all depends on what the public is interested in seeing. If there's interest in games they might start adding them to the collection.

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Yes, but books are better written than videogames.
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I don't know, a lot of stories would be dramatically improved if, for no real reason, a samurai popped out of nowhere and started whomping on demons.

Iggy

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"Re(4):Video games in libraries: how much long" , posted Sun 23 May 23:48

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I don't know, a lot of stories would be dramatically improved if, for no real reason, a samurai popped out of nowhere and started whomping on demons.

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"Re(5):Video games in libraries: how much long" , posted Mon 24 May 01:23

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I don't know, a lot of stories would be dramatically improved if, for no real reason, a samurai popped out of nowhere and started whomping on demons.

Jean Reno in the Divina Commedia !

Damn! I only have the english audio tapes, and they don't have Jean Reno in it!