This debate has happened in the video game world many years ago (and I'm sure is still ongoing in some circles), but most people arrived at a very simple but co

This debate has happened in the video game world many years ago (and I'm sure is still ongoing in some circles), but most people arrived at a very simple but counterintuitive solution: A "video game" is not the same as a game. You can have definitions of games, toys, events, etc, but "video game" encompasses all of them. Once it's digital and has some kind of interactivity, the only thing that matters is whether the author has defined it as a "video game". That's it.