Well, film is the name of the actual media capture/storage device itself, and it is my understanding that cinema has similar origins. To me it seems like the video game parallel to those terms would be software or program, while "video game" seems more parallel to "moving picture"...

Film did do a name change as it matured. First they were moving pictures, then talking pictures, then talkies, then finally movies. Moving pictures basically implies film is a subset of pictures in general, but we really don't think of them like that anymore. Similarly, video games implies video gam...