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In an article published on the Chicago Sun-Times' website, Ebert challenged comments previously made by thatgamecompany president Kellee Santiago about the medium's creative merits.
He wrote: "No video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form," pointing out that the inclusion of "rules, points, objectives, and an outcome" flies in the face of art's principles.
The movie commentator went on to question why gamers are interested in the debate. "Why are gamers so intensely concerned, anyway, that games be defined as art? Bobby Fischer, Michael Jordan and Dick Butkus never said they thought their games were an art form."
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