Actually I am quite aware that arcade games covers everything from
mechanical air hocky, to test your strength machines, to light gun operated
shooting galleries.
that was why I explicitely stated that such was my own deffinition of
arcade games.
From a technical standpoint you could create an arcade game in any genre.
For example, there used to be a very expensive virtual reality arcade rp
game called legend quest, and I've certainly seen a huge, mechanical real
mech simulator also using vr.
thus even something like lone wolf could conceiveably be considdered an
arcade game sinse I have seen similar games in custom cabinets in arcades.
Such a deffinition however, is far too broard in game genre terms to really
be any use. Remember, that when writing the genre descriptions for
audiogames.net I was attempting to come up with catagorizations that would
help people find different sorts of games they liked.
For example, I have certainly seen several sports style arcade games from
golf, to ffootball to baseball, yet if somebody goes to audiogames.net and
looks for "sports games" it won't help them if jjim kitchin's baseball is in
the same catagory as super egghunt.
Thus, it seemd reasonable to me to use the name "arcade games" as a
catagorization termm specifically for games that resemble the classics of
the 80's, even though I am quite aware that in reality there are far more
types of games in arcades than just those.
I suppose I could make up some sort of weerd term, point games, casual
action games, score games or the like, but that seems a little silly when to
many people "arcade style" means exactly that. It is a term which reviewers
and crytics of games have used for years, which is why I thought it made
sense as a catagory even though technically none! of the games we have is an
arcade game because they are not housed in an arcade cabinet which accepts
coins.
Hope this makes sense.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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