Stephen Totilo raises the question after having a friendly argument:
I'm against Totilo on this one. Sure as commenter Jake points out, computer solitaire does add a timer and scoring and such, but I think in its essence it is still a card game. I'd qualify online poker and electronic Settlers of Catan as card and board games respectively rather than video games. Chess against an AI I might consider a video game regardless of whether it was a physical or an electronic board.
The question is really what dividing lines are useful. I do think the term video game has some meaning other than just a game on a computer/console. The hard/casual gamer divide is overrated in my book, but I think there's a useful cultural line to be drawn between native games and clear unintigrated transplants. Can there be hybrids? Sure, although absent a critical mass of "Bridge plus" designers/players I'd probably just qualify the hybrids as occupying both camps.
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