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Snake5555555555 posted...

It does raise an interesting question though. How would you discern #5 with something like Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. The player reading out the instructions isn't playing through the video display, but is still an active participant in it nonetheless.

I considered this, and I think this is probably outside of the scope of both the specific criterion used here, as well as the criteria laid out in this video, which is only concerned with figuring out, like, "is this weird shit a scientist did in 1950 a video game." I would say playing KTANE from the perspective of the instruction reader is still very much within the realm of a video game, the game's functions still only exist within a video display. A video game doesn't cease to be a video game because I closed my eyes, for instance, the components are still there. It is an interesting way in which to play a video game, but there is still clear interaction with the idea of a video game.