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| x Platform game |
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Rainbow Islands |
Platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre characterized by jumping to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles. It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps. The most common unifying element to...
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| Super Mario Bros. | |||
| Prince of Persia | |||
| Lode Runner | |||
| Another World | |||
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| x Adventure |
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Maniac Mansion |
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story that is driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenges such as combat. The term originates from the 1970s computer...
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| Day of the Tentacle | |||
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure | |||
| Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders | |||
| Escape from Monkey Island | |||
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| x Action-adventure |
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D/Generation |
An action-adventure game can be defined as a game with a mix of elements from an action game and an adventure game, especially crucial elements like puzzles. Action-adventures require many of the same physical skills as action games, but also offer...
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| The Staff of Karnath | |||
| Primal | |||
| The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | |||
| Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure | |||
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| x Turn-based strategy |
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Civilization |
A turn-based strategy (TBS) game is a strategy game (usually some type of wargame, especially a strategic-level wargame) where players take turns when playing. This is distinguished from real time strategy where all players play simultanteously. The...
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| Fritz | |||
| Heroes Chronicles | |||
| Total Chaos | |||
| L'Empereur | |||
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| x Life simulation | The Sims |
Life simulation games (or Artificial life games) are simulation games in which the player lives or controls one or more artificial lifeforms. A life simulation game can revolve around "individuals and relationships, or it could be a simulation of an...
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| Little Computer People | |||
| The Sims 2: Nightlife | |||
| Alter Ego | |||
| Animal Forest | |||
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| x God game |
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The Sims |
A god game is a construction and management simulation that casts the player in the position of controlling the game on a large scale, as an entity with divine/supernatural powers, as a great leader, or with no specified character (as in The Sims...
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| Populous | |||
| The Sims 2: Nightlife | |||
| Dungeon Keeper 2 | |||
| The Sims Life Stories | |||
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| x Stealth-based game |
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Castle Wolfenstein |
Stealth game is a video game genre in which the player must avoid detection, using stealth to evade or ambush antagonists. Games in the genre employ mechanics such as hiding in shade, disguises, and noise which can alert enemies. Some games allow...
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| Metal Gear | |||
| Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake | |||
| Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots | |||
| Beyond Castle Wolfenstein | |||
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| x MMORPG |
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Final Fantasy XI |
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a genre of computer role-playing games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world.
As in all RPGs, players assume the role of a fictional...
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| World of Warcraft | |||
| Star Trek Online | |||
| The Shadows of Luclin | |||
| Materia Magica | |||
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| x First-person Shooter |
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Frontlines: Fuel of War |
First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre which centers the gameplay around gun- and projectile weapon-based combat through the first person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally...
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| JFK: Reloaded | |||
| Alien Breed 3D II: The Killing Grounds | |||
| VBS1 | |||
| Natural Selection | |||
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| x Real-time strategy |
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Magnant |
Real-time strategy (RTS) games are a genre of computer wargames which do not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II.
In an RTS, as in other wargames, the participants position and maneuver...
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| Allegiance | |||
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 | |||
| Total Annihilation | |||
| Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos | |||
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| x Interactive fiction |
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Border Zone |
Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video...
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| Deadline | |||
| Will | |||
| Advanced Xoru | |||
| Journey | |||
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| x Science fiction |
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Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science. such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, and time travel, often...
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| CyberRace | |||
| RF Online | |||
| The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: The Secret of the Living Volcano | |||
| Commander Blood | |||
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| x Simulation |
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Battlezone |
A simulation video game describes a diverse super-category of computer and video games. Some simulation video games are intended to simulate the real world; others are intended to simulate a fictional world; still others (The Sims 2 for example) are...
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| Gunship | |||
| Shufflepuck Cafe | |||
| Monster Rancher EVO | |||
| REVS | |||
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| x Third-person Shooter |
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Extermination |
Third-person shooter (TPS) is a genre of 3D action games in which the player character is visible on-screen, and the gameplay consists primarily of shooting.
A "third person shooter" is a game structured around shooting, and in which the player can...
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| The Getaway 3 | |||
| Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico | |||
| Armored Core | |||
| 25 To Life | |||
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| x First-person Adventure | RHEM |
First-person adventures are one of the oldest computer and video game genres. First-person adventures tend to focus on puzzle, exploration and character-interaction with no shooting or action elements, though some also feature elements from other...
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| 3D Monster Maze | |||
| Lost in Time | |||
| Skyborg: Into the Vortex | |||
| Raven Blade | |||
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| x Maze |
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Pac-Man Vs. |
A maze is a complex tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route. In everyday speech, both maze and labyrinth denote a complex and confusing series of pathways, but technically the maze is...
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| The Sacred Armour of Antiriad | |||
| Nonterraqueous | |||
| Gotcha | |||
| Nodes of Yesod | |||
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| x Massively multiplayer online first-person shooter |
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Neocron |
Massively multiplayer online first-person shooter (MMOFPS) is a sub-category of the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) video game genre, which combines first-person shooter-style gameplay with the game design elements that typify the MMOG...
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| Huxley | |||
| PlanetSide | |||
| Parabellum | |||
| Soldier Front | |||
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| x Dating sim |
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Feel the Magic: XY/XX |
Dating sims (or dating simulations) are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements. They are also sometimes put under the category of neoromance. The most common objective of dating sims is to date, usually...
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| School Rumble: Nesan Jiken Desu | |||
| Crescendo | |||
| Harukanaru Toki no Naka de | |||
| Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 2 | |||
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| x Racing game |
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F-Zero GX |
A racing video game is a genre of video games, either in the first- or third-person perspective, in which the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land, air, or sea vehicles. They may be based on anything from real-world racing...
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| Rally Bike / Dash Yarou | |||
| Chase H.Q. | |||
| V-Rally 3 | |||
| Rally Speedway | |||
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| x Fighting game |
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Variable Geo |
In versus, or competitive fighting games, two players (sometimes more) each choose a character, and then fight against each other, generally over several rounds. The winner of a round either knocks out his opponent (usually by depleting an energy...
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| Robo Pit | |||
| Digimon Tamers: Battle Spirit Ver. 1.5 | |||
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus | |||
| Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 | |||
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| x Sandbox |
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Mercenaries 2: World in Flames |
A sandbox game (or a video game with an optional sandbox mode) is a video game with an open-ended and non-linear style of gameplay, or a reduced emphasis on structure. The sandbox analogy is used to describe this style of gaming because, as with a...
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| The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction | |||
| Steambot Chronicles | |||
| Destroy All Humans! 3 | |||
| Prototype | |||
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| x Tactical shooter |
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon |
A tactical shooter is a subgenre of shooter game that includes both first-person shooters and third-person shooters. These games typically simulate realistic combat, thus making tactics and caution more important than quick reflexes in other action...
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| Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm | |||
| Vietcong | |||
| Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear | |||
| Deadly Dozen | |||
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| x Extreme sport |
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Freekstyle |
Extreme sports (also called action sport and adventure sport) is a media term for certain activities perceived as having a high level of inherent danger. These activities often involve speed, height, high level of physical exertion, highly...
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| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater | |||
| Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX | |||
| Tony Hawk's Underground 2 | |||
| Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam | |||
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| x Hack and slash |
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Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II |
Hack and slash or hack and slay refers to a type of gameplay that emphasizes close combat with short-range weapons. "Hack and slash" was originally used to describe an aspect of pen-and-paper role-playing games (RPGs).
Hack and slash has its roots...
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| Diablo | |||
| Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus | |||
| Rune | |||
| Gauntlet Legends | |||
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| x Rail shooter |
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Star Wars Trilogy Arcade |
Rail Shooter is a genre of shoot 'em up video games, deriving from the 'on-rails' movement featured in such games. In Shoot 'em up that the term is applicable to, control over movement is generally possible to the extent of allowing the player to...
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| Yoshi's Safari | |||
| The House of the Dead 2 | |||
| The Lost World: Jurassic Park | |||
| World Combat | |||
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| x Scrolling shooter |
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Gradius Neo |
Scrolling shooters are a type of video game, a subgenre of shoot 'em up. Such games feature backgrounds that appear to 'scroll' as the protagonist moves through them. Scrolling shooters feature 'top-down' or 'side-on' perspectives.
A scrolling...
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| Alpha Mission | |||
| Strikers 1945 III | |||
| Star Fox | |||
| Thunder Force AC | |||
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| x Transport puzzle | Atomix |
Transport puzzles are logistical puzzles, which often represent real-life transport problems.
In transport puzzles you move yourself and/or tokens through a given landscape.
As in rearrangement puzzles, no piece is ever lost or added to the board....
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| Rocks'n'Diamonds | |||
| x Tactical wargame |
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Computer Ambush |
Tactical wargames are a type of wargame that models military conflict at a tactical level, i.e. units range from individual vehicles and squads to platoons or companies. These units are rated based on types and ranges of individual weaponry. The...
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| Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles | |||
| Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command | |||
| Steel Panthers: World at War | |||
| Breed | |||
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| x Music video game | Guitar Hero II |
A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs. Music video games may take a...
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| Dance Dance Revolution Konamix | |||
| EyeToy: Groove | |||
| Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 4 | |||
| Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 2 | |||
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| x Arcade game |
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Hammer Heads |
An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, public houses, video arcades, and Family Entertainment Centers. Most arcade games are redemption games, merchandisers (such as Claw crane...
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| Cyclone | |||
| Konami Arcade Classics | |||
| Duck Hunt | |||
| The Office Games | |||
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| x Space simulation | Star Trek: Klingon Academy |
A space simulator is a system that tries to replicate or simulate outer space and/or the experience of space flight in a spacecraft as closely and realistically as possible. This includes full-size cockpit replicas mounted on hydraulic rams,...
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| O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base | |||
| Wing Commander: Armada | |||
| Galactic Empire | |||
| Star Wars: Starfighter | |||
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| x 4X |
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Star Wars: Rebellion |
4X games are a genre of strategy video game in which players control an empire and "explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate". The term was first coined by Alan Emrich in his September 1993 preview of Master of Orion for Computer Gaming World....
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| The Tone Rebellion | |||
| Ascendancy | |||
| Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire | |||
| Imperium Galactica II: Alliances | |||
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| x Virtual world | Rise: The Vieneo Province |
A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars. These avatars are usually depicted as textual, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional graphical representations, although other...
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| Second Life | |||
| World of Warcraft | |||
| There | |||
| Active Worlds | |||
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| x MUD |
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Materia Magica |
In online gaming, a MUD (multi-user dungeon), pronounced /mʌd/, is a multi-user real-time virtual world described entirely in text. It combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, interactive fiction, and online chat. Players can read...
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| Dragon's Gate | |||
| The Inquisition | |||
| Lusternia, Age of Ascension | |||
| Astaria | |||
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| x Action game |
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Frontlines: Fuel of War |
Action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand-eye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes diverse subgenres such as fighting games, shooter games, and platform games.
In an action game, the player...
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| Kao Challengers | |||
| Spawn: In the Demon's Hand | |||
| Dirty Harry: The War Against Drugs | |||
| Machi Kuru Domino | |||
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| x Shoot 'em up |
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Silhouette Mirage |
Shoot 'em up (also known as shmup) is a subgenre of shooter video games. In a shoot 'em up, the player controls a lone character, often a spacecraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses...
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| Lethal Xcess | |||
| Centipede | |||
| Triplane Turmoil 2 | |||
| Bangai-O | |||
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| x Side-scrolling |
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Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor |
A side-scrolling game or side-scroller is a video game in which the gameplay action is viewed from a side-view camera angle, and the onscreen characters generally move from the left side of the screen to the right. These games make use of scrolling...
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| Bible Adventures | |||
| The Lost Vikings | |||
| Secret Agent | |||
| Duke Nukem | |||
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| x Computer role-playing game |
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Mount&Blade |
A computer role-playing game (CRPG) is a broad video game genre originally developed for personal computers and other home computers. While technically not a separate genre, and sharing the same defining characteristics as console RPGs (also...
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| Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura | |||
| Primal | |||
| Naruto RPG: Uketsugareshi Hi no Ishi | |||
| Descent to Undermountain | |||
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| x City-building game |
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SimCity 3000 |
City-building games are a genre of computer game where players act as the overall planner and leader of a city, looking down on it from above, and being responsible for its growth and management. Players choose building placement and city management...
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| SimCity 4 | |||
| SimCity | |||
| Utopia | |||
| Master of Olympus - Zeus | |||
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| x Console role-playing game |
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Final Fantasy IV |
A console role-playing game is a video game genre that has its origin rooted in video game consoles and includes game mechanics and, frequently, settings derived from those of traditional role-playing games. The term also applies to role-playing...
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| Revelations: Persona | |||
| Guardian Heroes | |||
| Baten Kaitos Origins | |||
| Namco x Capcom | |||
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| x Pinball |
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Metroid Prime Pinball |
Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass-covered case called a pinball machine. The primary objective of the game is to...
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| Kirby's Pinball Land | |||
| Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire | |||
| Pro Pinball: The Web | |||
| Pinball | |||
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| x Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction |
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Fallout |
Post-Apocalyptic directly constitutes an occurrence that is after an apocaplyptic event.
Post-Apocalpytic - After-Apocalypse
Post-Apolcalyptic movies deal with many different scenarios often dealing with the end of man kind, the destruction of...
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| Fallout 2 | |||
| Darkwind: War on Wheels | |||
| Fallout 3 | |||
| Van Buren | |||
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| x Gambling |
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Golden Nugget 64 |
Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods. Typically, the outcome of the wager is evident within a short period....
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| Super Nudge 2000 | |||
| x Point-and-click |
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Diaspora |
Point-and-click is the action of a computer user moving a cursor to a certain location on a screen (point) and then pressing a mouse button, usually the left button(click), or other pointing device. An example of point-and-click is in hypermedia,...
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| Tiny Toon Adventures: Toonenstein | |||
| Eerievale | |||
| Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller | |||
| Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster and the Beanstalk | |||
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| x Alternate reality game | Majestic |
An alternate reality game (ARG), is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants' ideas or actions.
The form is defined by...
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| Evidence: The Last Ritual | |||
| x Steampunk |
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Wild Arms 3 |
Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian...
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| Wild Arms 2 | |||
| Wachenröder | |||
| Edge of Twilight | |||
| SteamBand | |||
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| x Dungeon crawl | Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja |
A dungeon crawl is a type of scenario in fantasy role-playing games in which heroes navigate a labyrinthine environment, battling various monsters and looting any treasure they may find. Because of its simplicity, a dungeon crawl can be easier for a...
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| Temple of Apshai | |||
| The Dungeon Revealed | |||
| Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon Toki/Yami no Tankentai | |||
| Dandy | |||
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| x Casino game | High Stakes Gambling |
Games available in most casinos are commonly called casino games. In a casino game, the players gamble casino chips on various possible random outcomes or combinations of outcomes. Casino games are available in online casinos, where permitted by law...
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| Vegas Dreams | |||
| Casino Kid | |||
| Casino Kid 2 | |||
| Caesar's Palace | |||
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| x Pachinko |
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Pachinko Sexy Reaction |
Pachinko (パチンコ) is a Japanese gaming device used for amusement and gambling. A pachinko machine resembles a vertical pinball machine, but with no flippers and a large number of relatively small balls. The player fires a ball up into the machine,...
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| Pachinko Sexy Reaction 2 | |||
| Jissen Pachi-Slot Pachinko Hisshôhô! Hokuto no Ken | |||
| Heiwa Pachinko World 64 | |||
| Pachinko 365 Hi | |||
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| x Psychological horror | Manhunt 2 |
Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot. Psychological horror is different from the type...
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| Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem | |||
| Silent Hill 3 | |||
| Silent Hill 4: The Room | |||
| Manhunt | |||
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| x Olympic video games |
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Winter Olympics: Lillehammer 94 |
"Olympic" video games is a name given to sport video games including more than one event and/or several sports. They are one of the older video game genres, having first appeared with the 1983 arcade classic Track & Field. Since then, numerous...
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| Olympic Gold | |||
| Sydney 2000 | |||
| Olympic Summer Games | |||
| Salt Lake 2002 | |||
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| x Casual game | Fish Tycoon |
A casual game is a video game or online game targeted at or used by a mass audience of casual gamers. Casual games can have any type of gameplay, and fit in any genre. They are typically distinguished by their simple rules and lack of commitment...
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| The Office | |||
| Mainichi Issho | |||
| Stephen King's F13 | |||
| Tori-Emaki | |||
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| x Mobile game |
A mobile game is a video game played on a mobile phone, smartphone, PDA, handheld computer or portable media player. This does not include games played on handheld video game systems such as PlayStation Portable or Nintendo DS.
The first game that...
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| x Drinking game |
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Early Edu-Ware products |
Drinking games are games which involve the drinking of alcoholic beverages. People have been playing drinking games since ancient times. Currently, they are most popular among college students. One consequence of this popularity is that drinking...
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| x Web application |
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Lords: Rising Sun |
In software engineering, a web application or webapp is an application that is accessed via a web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. It is also a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language ...
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| x Collectible card game |
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Sangokushi Taisen DS |
A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) or customizable card game, is a game played using specially designed sets of playing cards. While trading cards have been around for longer, CCGs combine the appeal of collecting...
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| PoxNora | |||
| Culdcept Saga | |||
| Phantasy Star Online Episode III C.A.R.D. Revolution | |||
| Metal Gear Acid 2 | |||
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| x Educational game |
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Mario's Early Years: Fun with Numbers |
Educational games are games that have been specifically designed to teach people about a certain subject, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play. They...
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| Typo Attack | |||
| Common Sense Training | |||
| Captain Novolin | |||
| Rayman Brain Games | |||
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| x Dojin | Meakashi-hen |
Dōjin (同人, dōjin), often romanized as doujin, is a general Japanese term for a group of people or friends who share an interest, activity, hobbies, or achievement. The word is sometimes translated into English as clique, coterie, society, or circle ...
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| Onikakushi-hen | |||
| Minagoroshi-hen | |||
| Watanagashi-hen | |||
| Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei | |||
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| x Beat 'em up |
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Power Stone Collection |
Beat 'em up (also known as brawler) is a video game genre featuring melee combat between the protagonist and large numbers of antagonists. These games typically take place in urban settings and feature crime-fighting and revenge based plots, though...
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| Silhouette Mirage | |||
| Guardian Heroes | |||
| Splatterhouse | |||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | |||
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| x Episodic games | Shootout! The Game |
An episodic video game is a video game produced and sold in small units that build into a recognizable series, as opposed to a video game series in which games are larger and produced separately and expansion packs which add onto an existing game....
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| Dinohunters | |||
| The Kill Point Game | |||
| Dogfights The Game | |||
| Kuma\War | |||
