Afterword

In 1993, the Le Diberder brothers’ book Qui a peur des jeux vidéo? declared video games the 10th art form—“a provocative proclamation for the time” (Wolf and Perron 2003, 8). Such a claim was subsequently and emphatically upheld by the French Minister of Culture in 2006, who declared video games a “form of artistic expression,” granting them tax breaks (NY Times, 06/11/2006). While it may appear incongruous to even question the artistic value of games over thirty years on, what is striking is that they still struggle for relative legitimacy and are seldom afforded the same standing as other art forms.