Games who ape films
Who like films to be games
Who make films like they’re games
Who make games like they’re films
Always should be something you really love
You couldn’t go anywhere in 1994 without Blur’s classic, Games and Films, wriggling through the airwaves and into your ears. No other song captured the mood of the era better. Video games were rising, but wanted to get the credibility of films, while films were looking at the growing success of games and wondering if they should be keeping an eye on them. Games with bits of movies in them were the result. A lot of them were naff, but we still enjoyed them.
The school playgrounds at the time became battlegrounds. The “filmers” of the time insisted that films are art and shouldn’t be disrespected by these new “computer games,” which to be fair was a common view of children up and down the country, likely the world, who had deep admiration for classic movies like Baby’s Day Out and Problem Child. A fringe group, though, calling themselves “gamers,” stood up for their exciting new hobby. Games didn’t have to be art. They could be anything they wanted to be.