state of computer games are similar to the state that film was in during Benjamin's time. The "supernatural" qualities of both media are the direct result of the medium's failure to simulate reality. 

This failure of the medium to match up to reality has bee capitalized on with film. It has allowed film to transcend it's original intended agenda of representing reality and take on a new agenda of poetry.

The birth, life, and popularity of computer games could be the story of how binary computers will eventually follow the same trajectory.

Perhaps one day they will be surpassed by a superior, more cognitive mechanism.