Action games could be considered the video game or computer game equivalent of action movies. Action games typically feature violent physical force, especially shooting, as their main interactive feature.

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Platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre characterized by jumping to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles. The game type gained popularity in the 80's and 90's with arcade games like Bubble Bobble, Midnight Resistance, Strider and on the PC Prince of Persia.

Puzzle Games is a genre that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles involved can involve logic, strategy, pattern recognition, sequence solving, word completion or, in some cases, just pure luck.

Retrogaming, also known as classic gaming, is the hobby of playing and collecting older computer, video, and arcade games. These games are played either on the original hardware, on modern hardware via emulation, or on modern hardware via ports on compilations. Participants in the hobby are known as retrogamers in the United Kingdom, and classic gamers, or old school gamers in the United States. Similarly, the games are known as retrogames, classic games, or old school games. Retrogaming is often linked to, although not the same as, indie gaming, the hobby of playing games that are not published by any conventional publisher.

Shooter games cover a fairly broad spectrum of genres that have the commonality of controlling a character who is usually armed with a firearm that can be freely aimed. This is also extended, at least for this website, to space invader style games with a craft of some sort armed with weaponry.

A strategy game is a game in which the players' decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome. Many games include this element to a greater or lesser degree, making demarcation difficult. It is therefore more accurate to describe a particular game as having a certain degree of strategic elements, as in being mainly based around strategic principles.

The crucial factor that separates this type of game from all others is that there is relatively little chance involved. All players have equal degree of knowledge of the elements of the game. There is no physical skill required other than that necessary to interact with the game pieces.