Video games are games played on
electronic devices.
Often
video game is taken in a narrow sense to mean those games played on
consoles for
television and similar
handhelds, with
computer games and
arcade games treated separately.
This is because the early games of these three tended to be very different.
However, now there is considerable similarity between them, and many games have appeared on more than one platform.
/History is related on another page.
Video games are made by developers, made up of directors, artists, programmers, musician?s and other technicians. Many teams easily number into the hundreds on larger projects such as SEGA's Shenmue?. But most are stll made up of no more than a dozen closely working developers. ID Software is a good example of the smaller, more tightly focused developer.
Below are some of the main genres of videogames. This list could be improved on, and the titles relisted to those of great importance. Video games can also be categorized temporally - one may be a [turn-based game]? or a continuous game - or in terms of the sort of display they have - 2d, 3d, fixed 3d, and so forth - though these tend to be more flexible. Of course all of these categories are somewhat overlapping and incomplete.
See also:
[Video Game Consoles]?
ADVENTURE
- Day of the Tentacle
- Maniac Mansion
- Zork series
- Sam and Max
- Monkey Island series
- Zelda series
- Tomb Raider series
- more
ROLE PLAYING (RPG)
- Dungeon Master series
- Hack? and Nethack
- [Might and Magic]? series
- Ultima series
- Final Fantasy series
- Pokemon series
- Diablo series
- Xenogears-Terms
- Chrono Trigger
- [Chrono Cross]?
- Radical Dreamers
- more
[SHOOT 'EM UPS]
?
SCROLLING
- Zaxxon?
- R-Type series
- Gradius series
- [Zero Wing]?
- [Radiant Silvergun]?
- Bangai-O?
- [Mr Heli]?
- more
You've got to mention MAME here (link to
http://www.mame.dk).
FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS (FPS)
- Game-controlled movement
- Duck Hunt
- [Virtua Cop]?
- Area 51
- [Time Crisis]? series
- Player-controlled movement
- Wolfenstein 3D series
- Doom series
- Duke Nukem 3D series
- Quake series
- Half-life
- Unreal series
- more
THIRD PERSON SHOOTERS (TPS)
- Tomb Raider series
- Heretic II
- more
STRATEGY
TURN BASED
- [Chaos,Lords Of Chaos,Rebelstar]? series
- Civilization series
- [Battle Isle]? series
- Alpha Centauri
- Worms series
- [WarLords series]?
- [Heroes of Might and Magic series]?
- Sokoban? should be in here somewhere!
[REAL TIME]? (RTS)
- Dune series
- [Command and Conquer]? series
- [Red Alert]?
- [Dark Reign]?
- Populous? series
- StarCraft
- [The Corporate Machine]?
- [Age of Empires]?
- more?
PLATFORM
- Super Mario series
- Contra? series
- Metroid? series
- [Mega Man]? series
- [Sonic the Hedgehog]? series
- [Crash Bandicoot]? series
- [Wario Land]? series
- Kirby? series
- Lionheart?
- more
PUZZLE
- Tetris
- [Dr. Mario]?
- [ChuChu Rocket]?
- Mr Driller
- Snakes?
- Bust A Move
- Columns?
- Bomberman?
- more
BEAT 'EM UPS
- [Street Fighter]? series
- [Mortal Kombat]? series
- Virtua Fighter series
- [King of Fighters]? series
- [Power Stone]? series
- Tekken?
- [Super Smash Bros.]? series
- more
RACING
?
- Simulation style
- [Gran Turismo]? series
- [Sega Rally]? series
- Arcade style
- Pole Position series
- Mario Kart series
more
?
SPORTS
- You know, all those baseball, golf, football, whatever, simulations.
- and don't forget fishing and wrestling games.
SIMULATION
?
- [Microsoft Flight Simulator]?
- [Ace Combat]?
- The Sims
- SimCity
- SimAnt?
- [Sim Park]?
etc
Rhythm
?
- [Dance Aerobics]?
- PaRappa the Rapper
- [UmJammer Lammy]?
- [Dance Dance Revolution]?
- [Frequency video game]?
- [Space Channel 5]?
- [Samba De Amigo]?
TRADITIONAL
Most popular boardgames, cardgames, and the like have been computerized to some degree or another.
Chess, checkers, othello (aka reversi), and Backgammon have world class computer programs. Mah-jongg and related games are immensely popular in Japan. Computer game programs are worthy opponents and can help you improve your skill at traditional board games.
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