Another Emmy Awards has come and gone, with the final season of Game Of Thrones grabbing a few awards and other shows that most people don’t even watch winning the rest. However, one award winner stood out, due to the fact that it blurs the line between a movie and a video game.

I’m talking about Netflix’s Black Mirror Bandersnatch, which won an Emmy for Best Television Movie earlier today, effectively beating the likes of HBO’s Deadwood movie, Brexit, My Dinner With Herve and Amazon’s King Lear.

While it hasn’t been officially confirmed, this might mark the first time that a video game of sorts has won an Emmy award. Netflix’s Black Mirror Bandersnatch is an interactive choose-your-own-adventure movie with multiple endings, where viewers are expected to make choices for the main character or essentially in control of his/her fate. That’s the very definition of a video game.

In his acceptance speech for Netflix’s Black Mirror Bandersnatch Emmy award (via The Hollywood Reporter), Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker thanked the streaming giant and “everyone on the tech side in Los Gatos, who pulled off a magic trick.” He also jokingly said:

“Being British, we were conditioned for 52 percent of you to vote for Brexit,”

Netflix’s Black Mirror Bandersnatch follows young programmer Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead), who is trying to develop his own choose-your-adventure game in 1984. It took me more than two hours to reach the ‘true’ ending, and I found it to be middling and boring as a game, but quite ambitious for an interactive movie.

Perhaps Netflix’s Black Mirror Bandersnatch Emmy win will make more non-gamers realise the massive potential and value of gaming as a medium, as well as allow Netflix and other companies to experiment more with future interactive movies and unconventional ideas.

For more interactive games in the vein of Netflix’s Black Mirror Bandersnatch, check out my list of recommended titles here.

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