The question if video games are art or not has been pretty solved, and the question has moved on to emulation accuracy versus impacting the original experience.

The question if video games are art or not has been pretty solved, and the question has moved on to emulation accuracy versus impacting the original experience. It's a very tricky, subjective thing, especially in a medium that is often designed to be mass produced. That's a step further away from movies where a unit is produced for a platform based around a common standard with multiple implementations, but for console games and other fine tuned implementations, it's a tricky question.