This article examines the place of video games in a literature course in France from a corpus of official programs, educational publications of the Scérén and Canopé networks (under the supervision of the French Ministry of National Education, MEN) and the MEN national information and resources portal. It reveals the very low presence of video games and serious games not only in literature, but more generally in the French discipline. We hypothesize that this low presence is explained, in part, by the history of the discipline and more generally by the relationship that the school institution has with popular culture of which video games is a part of. The process of schooling video games is indeed similar to that of literature, cinema, and television. It generates school practices that favor distance and not immersion in fiction. The radical novelty of video games is not taken into account, but reduced to the known, through practices distancing fiction, the image, and the game.