I've been playing computer games lately. They sometimes have the label "interactive" on them.
Although I'm sure this has been said before, what on earth isn't interactive? Even tv is somewhat interactive--you've got to watch it, choose what you want to watch, choose a volume.
It suggests that games like Monopoly or Trivial Pursuit are also non-interactive, in the computer sort of way. Who picked the word, anyway?
It could, instead, have been called by a different name. It could be called the, "Your attention is constantly required unless you press pause game." Or "Your hand is permanently connected to the mouse button game." Or "This game requires purposeless clicking so that we can justify our really cool radio buttons and dynamic graphics."
Yeah, one of those names might be better. But it probably won't fit on the little pop up menu.
It's too bad, really. That could be a game in itself. You must find the spot on the pop up menu that will reveal the entire name of the game formerly known as interactive.
Posted by dotty at October 23, 2003 09:32 PM