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This study focuses on clarifying orality on game as a medium. The media has progressed through acomplicated process where the inter-relationship between media has been occurred. The orality, the oldestform of medium, has been a 'residuary medium' and the spoken word has been transformed in spite of theadvent of new media. This study attempts to discuss the characteristics of 'game' as a medium through theconcepts of Walter Ong's primary orality, literacy, and the secondary orality. The characteristics of 'game' as a medium based on the multimedia, interactive existence, and theuser-generated narrative, and these characteristics of 'game' could be illuminated through the Ong's orality. This study makes an effort to explore the modes of the presence of the orality through the psychodynamicapproach of media. The difference of mentality appeared by the medium, because background andcharacteristics of the medium itself could control the size and characteristics of the human experience.