So what is Video Games actually about?
It always sounded to me like the narrative of a woman who’s defining herself foremost as a “girlfriend,” and so the focus on playing video games–in that context–seemed like something she was doing to make her boyfriend happy.
In that light, it always seemed to me like a very dark, cynical representation of how video games fit into modern gender dynamics, with AAA video games as this “boy thing” that girlfriends understand distantly via the conduit of their relationship.
There is nothing more alien than a loved one’s intense investment in a black box.