There’s Locke with his backgammon; there’s Hurley’s Connect Four; there was that suggestive, meta-conversation over a game of Risk. And Ben did complain mysteriously about Widmore’s “changing the rules”: Could the whole thing be a game?
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New York magazine writer Emily Nussbaum—whose husband is a videogame critic—on the game-like aspects of “Lost” in a post titled “Why ‘Lost’ Is the Best Game Show in TV History”
For all of the television show’s game-like attributes, we find ourselves wondering what Nussbaum and her husband thought of the actual “Lost” videogame, Lost: Via Domus. The reviewers didn’t think much of it, as evidenced by Metacritic scores in the low 50s.
