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Computer and video games are generally categorized into genres. A computer Chess game, for example, would be regarded as a Strategy game,. Within...
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| x Platform game |
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Media genre | Prince of Persia |
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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| Lode Runner | ||||
| Super Mario Bros. | ||||
| Another World | ||||
| Flashback: The Quest for Identity | ||||
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| x Adventure |
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Media genre | The Last Express |
An adventure game is a type of video game characterized by investigation, exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. The term originates from the 1970s game Adventure,...
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| The Secret of Monkey Island | ||||
| Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge | ||||
| The Curse of Monkey Island | ||||
| Escape from Monkey Island | ||||
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| x Action-adventure |
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Media genre | D/Generation |
Action-adventure is a genre that can include:
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| TV Genre | 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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Software Genre | Civilization |
A turn-based strategy (TBS) game is a strategy game (usually some type of wargame, especially a strategic-level wargame) that is turn-based. The phrase turn-based is used to distinguish such games from real-time strategy games, and as such the...
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| Media genre | 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 and...
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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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Media genre | Castle Wolfenstein |
A stealth game is a video game in which the player needs to avoid detection. The genre was introduced in 1981 by the game Castle Wolfenstein, but was not popularized until 1998, with the release of Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation. The genre's...
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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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Media genre | World of Warcraft |
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a genre of computer role-playing games (CRPGs) in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world. The term MMORPG was coined by Richard Garriott, the creator...
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| Final Fantasy XI | ||||
| Star Trek Online | ||||
| The Shadows of Luclin | ||||
| Materia Magica | ||||
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| x Role-playing game |
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Game genre | Betrayal at Krondor |
A role-playing game (RPG; often roleplaying game) is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail...
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| Literary Genre | The Secret | |||
| Media genre | Final Fantasy | |||
| Industry | Dungeons & Dragons | |||
| Rune Factory | ||||
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| x First-person Shooter |
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Media genre | Frontlines: Fuel of War |
A first-person shooter (FPS) is an action video game from the shooter game subgenre. Like all shooters, they involve "an avatar, one or more ranged weapons, and a varying number of enemies". FPSs are distinguished by a first person perspective, that...
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| Software Genre | JFK: Reloaded | |||
| Alien Breed 3D II: The Killing Grounds | ||||
| VBS1 | ||||
| Natural Selection | ||||
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| x Real-time strategy |
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Media genre | Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 |
A real-time strategy (RTS) video game is a strategic game that is distinctly not turn-based. According to Brett Sperry, the phrase real-time was used to distinguish such games within the broader genre of strategic wargames, which has a longer...
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| Total Annihilation | ||||
| Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos | ||||
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars | ||||
| Powermonger | ||||
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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 computer...
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| Deadline | ||||
| Will | ||||
| Advanced Xoru | ||||
| Journey | ||||
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| x Science fiction |
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Book Subject | Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of imaginary phenomena such as extra-terrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, and time travel, often along with technological elements such as futuristic spacecraft,...
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| TV Genre | CyberRace | |||
| Literary Genre | RF Online | |||
| Website Category | The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: The Secret of the Living Volcano | |||
| Quotation Subject | Commander Blood | |||
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| x Simulation |
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Website Category | Princess Maker |
A simulation game is a game that contains a mixture of skill, chance, and strategy to simulate an aspect of reality, such as a stock exchange. Simulation gaming has its largest application in the world of computers with people learning by simulation...
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| Media genre | Battlezone | |||
| Gunship | ||||
| Shufflepuck Cafe | ||||
| Monster Rancher EVO | ||||
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| x Shootem-Up | Llamatron | |||
| Revenge of the Mutant Camels | ||||
| Ibara | ||||
| Pink Sweets - Ibara Sorekara | ||||
| ESP Ra.De. | ||||
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| x Third-person Shooter |
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Media genre | Extermination |
Third-person shooter (TPS) is a genre of 3D computer and video games in which the player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles, as opposed to the first-person model in which the player views...
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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 Educational | Film genre |
An educational film is a film or movie whose primary purpose is to educate. Educational films have been used in classrooms as an alternative to other teaching methods.
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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 Survival Horror |
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Media genre | Resident Evil |
The distinction between horror and terror is a standard literary and psychological concept applied especially to Gothic literature and film (Radcliffe 1826; Varma 1966; Crawford 1986: 101-3; Bruhm 1994: 37; Wright 2007: 35-56). Horror is the feeling...
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| x Interactive Movie | ||||
| x Maze |
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Media genre | 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. This is different from a labyrinth, which has an actual through-route and is not designed to be difficult to navigate (despite the...
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| Concepts/Theories | The Sacred Armour of Antiriad | |||
| Nonterraqueous | ||||
| Gotcha | ||||
| Nodes of Yesod | ||||
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| x Racing |
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Media genre | GP Rider |
A race is a competition of speed, against an objective criterion, usually a clock. The competitors in a race try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of time. Typically this involves traversing some distance, but it can be any other task...
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| Game genre | Rallisport Challenge 2 | |||
| R.C. Pro-Am II | ||||
| Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride | ||||
| Monster Truck Madness | ||||
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| x Kart racing |
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Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing |
Kart racing or karting is a variant of open-wheel motor sport with simple, small four-wheeled vehicles called karts, go-karts, or gearbox/shifter karts depending on the design. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits. Karting is commonly...
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| x Language arts | Compu-Read |
Language arts is the general academic subject area dealing with developing comprehension and capacity for use of written and oral language. The five strands of the Language arts are reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing (visual literacy...
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