For a long time, video gamers have been going to the movies, so to speak. Now we have our own home video cameras. And it took a lot less time with games. Using as signposts “A Trip to the Moon” in 1902 and the release of the VHS format to replace traditional film in 1975, it 73 years passed between the first major narrative movie and a mechanism by which anyone could easily record moving pictures.

2011’s “LittleBigPlanet 2” has closed the gap between producers and consumers in half the time it took movies — 35 years, to be exact, if your starting point is “Pong’s” release in 1976 as the first major game to enter consumers’ homes.

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