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  2. List of video game genres - Wikipedia

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    MMO games can enable players to cooperate and compete with each other on a large scale, and sometimes to interact meaningfully with people around the world. They include a variety of gameplay types, representing many video game genres, such as MMORPG, MMOFPS, MMORTS, MMOTBS and MMO simulation games.

  3. Video game genre - Wikipedia

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    A video game genre is an informal classification of a video game based on how it is played rather than visual or narrative elements. [1][2] This is independent of setting, unlike works of fiction that are expressed through other media, such as films or books. For example, a shooter game is still a shooter game, regardless of where or when it ...

  4. List of game genres - Wikipedia

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    Escape room games. Fighting games. First person shooter games. Third person shooter games. Multiplayer online battle arena games. Platforming games. Real-time strategy games. Rhythm games. Role-playing video games.

  5. Category:Video game genres - Wikipedia

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    Racing game. Rail shooter. Real-time strategy. Real-time tactics. Rhythm game. Roguelike. Roguelike deck-building game. Role-playing video game.

  6. Video game - Wikipedia

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    A video game, [a] also known as a computer game or just a game, is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld ...

  7. Adventure game - Wikipedia

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    An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. [1] The genre 's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative -based media, such as literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of genres.

  8. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...

  9. Category:Video games by genre - Wikipedia

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    Sandbox games ‎ (1 C, 33 P) Shooter games ‎ (14 C, 162 P) Simulation video games ‎ (18 C, 265 P) Social deduction video games ‎ (9 P) Soulslike video games ‎ (2 C, 62 P) Sports video games ‎ (60 C, 59 P) Stealth video games ‎ (16 C, 337 P) Strategy video games ‎ (20 C, 393 P) Survival video games ‎ (6 C, 209 P)