That's an interesting opinion. I guess I should start having this kind of view on all those reports I have to do at work: All pieces of art. Written by myself! Signed in the most beautiful handwriting.
Arhu actually makes a good point. I wrote about this once here in these forums but I can't find it... it probably didn't survive the server problems they had with this website a year or so ago. But here's the "Cliff's Notes" version:
Back in the days of gaming, before the internet, when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth and you had to exert physical energy to move your body to the store that physically sold the box that physically stored the disks with your game on it were the hallmark days when just getting your game was all part of the great adventure.
Some of the best games, like Ultima 4, have memories of a 6 mile bike ride, 2 miles up a big hill (damn you Palos Verdes, CA) and 6 miles back home. Opening the box and smelling that smell of freshly printed manuals.
Pouring over the manuals for hours and hours before ever feeling "right" to insert the disks and install the actual game (doing that in reverse order was considered a sin). Having that notepad and grid paper next to you, ready to go for the inevitable pages and pages of notes and maps.
I probably spent 3 months with Ultima 4, playing nearly everyday for a few hours at a time. No marathon gaming back then because back then we still liked to go outside, go to the beach and do other things.
To this day, I have all my notes and maps in the actual game boxes for games like Ultima, Wizardry, Bard's Tale and others. When I look at them I do get that same feeling as when I see drawings of rocket ships and space battles I drew as a kid. In that sense, they are art, to me anyway.