10 Video Game Genres THAT HAVE VANISHED

There are some types of video games that we just don't see much of anymore. Here are some examples of fading game genres.

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0:29 Number 10
2:23 Number 9
4:09 Number 8
6:30 Number 7
7:51 Number 6
9:22 Number 5
10:43 Number 4
12:16 Number 3
13:54 Number 2
15:28 Number 1

[woodwindlover]

I do miss couch co-op/split-screen adventure games. My sister and I grew up playing lots of those types of games and they feel like they are almost completely gone today.

[ericfox]

I used to dig point-and-click adventures. Maniac Mansion, Full Throttle, Longest Journey, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Secret of Monkey Island... for a while during the 90s they were everywhere for PC and had some real gems.

[Kordanor]

There were a couple of Genres which feel "more dead" than several mentioned here:
1. Point & Click Adventures
2. Textadventures
3. MUDs
4. Dungeoncrawlers (Step based, like Dungeonmaster)
5. (German Style) Economy Sims (not "Citybuilders", but games where you do management decisions, buy and sell and easily go bankrupt, lots of them from Germany, Like "Hanse", Fugger, Mad TV, Der Planer, Capitalism...) I think the only derivate still existing is Sports Management games

[danonck]

I'm surprised to not see Point and Click Adventure Games on the list. This genre was one of the biggest in the 90s and early 2000s and then sort of vanished. I loved playing the Broken Sword series and Runaway, but the list of great games in that genre may go on and on.

Also, I'd definitely add Tycoon games. So many of these kept popping up, the likes of Rollercoaster Tycoon, Airline Tycoon as the most notable examples. But also Transport Tycoon and games like Pizza Syndicate deserve a mention.

[GameEsthetics]

I wish the RTS genre would pickup again! They are incredible and have always been my favorite to play competitively... Great video Jake and the gameranx crew 💙

[Zontar]

number 5 really hit in the feelings. car combat games were my favourite and it's a shame no one is doing them anymore

[HankChinaski]

I remember Unreal and Quake so well. I used to play tournaments and loved that experience. It didn't seem as toxic as so many of the modern multiplayer shooters. And LAN parties with friends were just the best. A living room ran with chords and multiple computers. Man I'm old. lol

[AngryCalvin]

Giant mech games from the 90’s. Mechwarrior, Earthsiege, Heavy Gear, etc. These games were more of a hobby for me. Reason to buy a flight stick and a set of headphones with a microphone and voice command software for giving orders. This was my greatest gaming experience from the 90’s.

[ashanarchy]

I worked in the gaming department of a best buy when guitar hero 3 came out. That was about the time that everyone got burnt out on music games. We were left with 200 plastic guitars we couldn't shift. Being the biggest best buy in texas at the time, we had to get creative. We hosted guitar hero events to sell some, we stealthily shipped them off to smaller stores low on inventory. The rest we had to mark down 75%. Honestly for a solid 2 years the biggest issue in our department was shifting those damn plastic guitars.

[digitalphoenix]

I'm surprised you didn't mention Road Rash for vehicular combat. We played that game for hours and hours on the Sega Genesis, that was the spiritual parent of Twisted Metal. I'm glad you mentioned Vigilante 8, I completely forgot about that game! I probably paid for that game six times just renting it from blockbuster back in the day.

[TheThird]

While it wasn't a vehicular combat-only game, Mad Max had some of the best vehicular combat around. Playing it, especially in first-person, really felt like you were in the movies and it worked so well.

[jerrycummings]

How could you leave our Carmageddon? Hands down one of the best car combat games ever.

[skotadisms]

kinda surprised the adventure genre was left out of this.. it was huge in the 80's and 90's and it gave us some amazing games

[MrGuitaristgamer]

Shoutout to the music video game genre, specifically Guitar Hero! After the third game released, i was inspired to learn how to play guitar for real. My dad warned me it would be very different from the game but once i started getting lessons, the songs from Guitar Hero and Rock Band really kept me motivated to never stop learning new songs. Here i am at the age of 25 and now i can play guitar, bass, drums, and some piano. I've also had more than 20 live performances. This is proof that video games can change someone's life 🎸🎶

[Frank-zimp]

The genre I miss most these days is the 3D mechanical puzzle genre. Games like Myst, Rhem, etc. There used to be a lot of Myst clones in the 90-00s

[rhauf]

I think the primary reason light gun games disappeared, is because they only work with a CRT.
They'd work by illuminating a square in the hitbox of the target for one frame when you pulled the trigger, if the optic detected an increase in luminance during that 16ms window, it counted it as a hit. if there were multiple hitboxes, it would illuminate one the next frame, then another the next after that. Ever notice that square around the duck in duck hunt?

With digital displays, there's processing time and lower contrast ratios, so it would require another more complex and likely less precise method to detect aim.
This is why the WII gun-shooter type games sucked so bad (they used an IR sensor to detect the angle of the controller, which doesn't correspond to where it's pointed at the screen so much as how it's pointed in relation to the sensor bar, IE, not accurate, and there was the delay factor of digital processing as well)

[harleysamericanstream]

This article was so heartbreaking. There were at least 5 of these genres that I so wish would make a comeback. Car combat and extreme sports why did you leave us? Way to make me feel old too.

[John_Conner]

I miss the old arcade sidescroller games. Things like Contra, Double Dragon, Original 4 player Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 4 player Gauntlet, and many more. Heck I just miss arcades in general. I know I spent alot of time in GTA 5 getting my characters arcade just right. My sisters kid just had a birthday at one of those fun parks and they still had some arcade machines with those weighted plastic guns with force feedback. Some were even new. They even had a 4 player Minecraft sidescroller

[Helianthus_]

I miss games that weren't afraid to be experimental and just batshit crazy with gameplay and cinematics. Infected on PSP comes to mind.

[livelongandtroll]

03:19 the Pikmin series is the best adaptation of a RTS to consoles, IMHO.

I am replaying those games in preparation for the 4th, they are awesome.