Criticisms
Lowood's Canon has been criticized by video game theorists and academics who consider his list limited and unrepresentative. In 2010, a featured article on Gamasutra criticized in details many aspects of the Game Canon. The list had no explanations supporting the video games selected. The review stated that in limiting the list of historically and culturally significant video games to ten, many other innovative video games had unfairly been excluded from the Canon. The article also mentioned that a Canon should include all innovative video games but also all innovations in video gaming. Gareth Mensah, founder of the Video Game Canon proposed an alternative in the form of an aggregator organizing all innovative video games and innovations in video gaming through the use of a tagging system.
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