Gameology: Commentary and Resources for the Game Studies Community

This may well vary by region or subculture or era, but I've always understood the term "videogame" to be roughly synonymous with "console or arcade game", as distinct from "computer game". Back when I was an avid computer gamer (rougly 1994-2002), I didn't consider myself a "videogamer", and saw that as a separate cultural, aesthetic, and technological scene.

I suppose console- or arcade-style games on a computer might still count as a videogame, but I wouldn't personally call a game like Starcraft a videogame. I don't particularly object to lumping them together, but to my ears it sounds like the sort of thing a non-gamer (like a Congressman complaining about "violent videogames") would be more likely than a gamer (and especially a computer gamer) to do. Admittedly, my outlook on this category of games, whatever you want to call them, is heavily 1990s-centric.