Video games have traveled a long road to respectability in the US. The industry may never finish the winning over the hearts and minds of the older generation (we’re looking at you, Roger Ebert), but in recent months the case has been stronger than ever that video games are art.
This Spring, the Smithsonian American Art Museum opened its comprehensive “The Art of Video Games” exhibition; last month, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) created a game-friendly “Arts in Media” category for its grants. Not convinced? Allow us to show you some of our favorites.
In celebration of the youngest official art form, we’ve assembled ten trailers and gameplay clips of the titles selected in the Smithsonian exhibition, from works with clear artistic ambitions to those with more — how shall we say — exploding aliens. The slideshow below includes gameplay from classics like Pac-Man and Final Fantasy VII, horror vacui visions like Earthworm Jim and Chu-Chu Rocket, and works like “Rez” that defy description.
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