Curated playlist
Video game genres
- Action gameSpace Invaders gave enemies the power to shoot back. Taito's 1978 arcade hit shaped action games.
- Adventure gameIn 1976, William Crowther wrote a cave-exploring text game that launched adventure games.
- Action-adventure gameAction-adventure games are defined mostly by what they are not.
- Role-playing video gameFinal Fantasy VII arrived in 1997 with a record-breaking budget of around $45 million.
- Action role-playing gameThe Tower of Druaga, a 1984 arcade game, was pitched as a fantasy Pac-Man.
- Stealth gameStealth games trace a seed to a 1979 program about a boy sneaking through a convenience store.
- Space flight simulation gameThe space trading game Elite fits inside 22 kilobytes of memory. It still shaped the maker of EVE Online.
- Fighting gameDaigo Umehara parried 15 straight hits with one pixel of health left. It happened in a 2004 fighting game semi-final.
- Survival horrorResident Evil began as a planned remake of the Nintendo game Sweet Home.
- RoguelikeRoguelike games began with a joke about wasted computer time. Dennis Ritchie quipped that Rogue was "the biggest waste of CPU cycles in history." Rogue was a dungeon adventure built entirely from text characters, and it arrived in 1980.…
- Visual novelSome popular visual novels have no choices to make at all. Planetarian offers the player no choices whatsoever.
- Tactical role-playing gameIn Fire Emblem's 1990 debut, a character who ran out of hit points stayed dead.
- Rhythm gameTesters of Dance Dance Revolution found themselves losing weight during development.
- Massively multiplayer online role-playing gameA glitch in World of Warcraft in 2005 caught the eye of disease researchers.