"Much hype has been produced about the ability of new technology to instigate new ways of thoughts and communication. Take hypertext, which was supposed to give us writing skills that adhered much closer to the way our brains worked, a more 'natural' way of textual communication. So far, however, the World Wide Web, the most successful hypertext system by far, has only produced a better distribution mechanism, and very few texts actually use the nonlinear possibilities of the technology. Games, however, are often simulations; they are not static labyrinths like hypertexts or literary fictions."

-- Marie-Laure Ryan, "Beyond Myth and Metaphor," GameStudies.org.