In the long-winding, quite insightful, but also a bit Nintendo-biased essay ‘Birdmen and the Casual Fallacy’ by Sean Malstrom there’s a phrase I really like: ‘non-fiction game’, for things like ‘Wii Fit’ and ‘Brain Training’, but also ‘Flight Simulator’ and ‘The Sims’. It’s so obvious that it should stick.
June 3, 2008