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Squid fights, sex dolls and nods to modern masters " the V&A's superb video games show kicks off in the noughties, which was just when they got interesting

Video games are a unique and sometimes messy mixture of everything from visual arts to music, coding and animation, typically experienced at home over the course of 10 hours or more. This makes them a fascinating subject for design critics and curators, but it also means that they do not adapt well to a museum setting. The soul of games - the thing that gives them their power - is interactivity, the chance to be a participant, rather than an observer. This is the very thing that's taken away when they are placed in a museum, where they can be seen and read about - but not played.

Places like Berlin's Computerspielemuseum and exhibitions like the Barbican's Game On have focused on video games' history as a technology: arcade cabinets and old computers give way to sleek-looking modern consoles, as the displayed works progress from lines and dots to pixel sprites to polygonal 3D models to realistic characters in beautifully-rendered worlds.