I think the author is deliberately excluding interactive fiction from the kinds of "videogames" that are criticized here. Which is too bad; there has been grea

I think the author is deliberately excluding interactive fiction from the kinds of "videogames" that are criticized here. Which is too bad; there has been great stuff in the genre for a long time. Photopia (1998) has a heartbreaking story and a strong female protagonist and is well worth playing through ( http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=ju778uv5xaswnlpl http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=ju778uv5xaswnlpl ).