Video game genres

There are many types of video games out their, knowing which one you would like the most would be a great thing to know. One way you can decide on choosing is by either trying out different game types. 
All of these are all possible genres below in the video game world. One way in which you can choose one of these to play is who you play with. If you have a set of friends ask them what they play. Also check out what the recent top video games in the US. To better understand what you like take this quiz to find out your likes and dislikes.
   
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After you have chosen the genre of the video game. You also want to see what platforms are in your budget, but if you dont want to spend money at all their are free video games online on the computer. On sites like Miniclips, Crazymonkeygames.com, etc. Decide what you want to do and do it.

Deciding a console is a whole entire different task. Based on what genre you have chosen, those titles are based on what system to get. Such as Halo or Gears of war you would choose Xbox. For the Last of us or Little Big Planet choose PS3. 

HOW TO CHOOSE A CONSOLE

Below is the list of all possible game consoles:

List of all consoles

Below is a list of all possible genres of video games:

These are the genres a Videogame can be classified as:

• 4X (4X): A game that has four simple goals, which are eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate. Sub-genre of a Strategy Game.
• Action Adventure: A game that combines parts from Adventure Games and Action Games together.
• Action Game: A game that is primarily about combat.
• Action RPG: A game that combines parts from Role Playing Games and Action Adventure Games together. Sub-genre of a Role-playing Game.
• Adventure Game: A game that is about puzzle-solving, exploration, and narrative, and a relative (or total) absence of randomized combat.
• Art Game: A game that has Doing It for the Art as its motto.
• Artillery Game: A game that tasks the player with successfully aiming at an opponent with a ballistics trajectory under various conditions.
• Beat 'em Up: A game that has the player character use their fists against a large group of enemies. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Bizarre Puzzle Game: A Puzzle Game that is so weird and mind-defying that trying to label it with a genre is a puzzle in and of itself.
• Breaking Out: A game in which a paddle at the bottom of the screen bounces a ball to destroy blocks, and missing the ball results in the player losing a life.
• Bullet Hell: A vertically scrolling shooter that has every single enemy fire hundreds or thousands of projectiles on-screen at once at the player character, testing their dodging skills.
• Card Battle Game: A game in which players brings their own deck of cards to play.
• Casual Video Game: A game that is easy to learn and relatively simple by design.
• Cinematic Platform Game: A Platform Game that portrays itself more realistically. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Construction And Management Games: This type of game focuses on elements like gathering and management of resources, construction, expansion, research and exploration.
• Cute 'em Up: A Shoot Em Up that casts the enemies as cute things such as kittens, candy, fairies, and so on. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Dating Sim: A game in which the player courts at least one potential lover, and the player must keep track of every character's feelings about them and giving out presents, which will feel like a Role Playing Game.
• Digging Game: A game in which the player digs through terrain while minding falling objects.
• Digital Pinball Tables: Computerized pinball games, whether replicas of Physical Pinball Tables or original boards with features that can only exist in software.
• Driving Game: A game in which the player drives a vehicle of some kind.
• Eastern RPG: A usually Japanese game that tends to have a linear plot and a party of pre-defined characters written into said plot.
• Edutainment Game: A game that educates players as well as entertains them.
• Elimination Platformer: A game that requires players to use the concept of jumping from one platform to another to clear the entire level of enemies.
• Endless Running Game: A game about enduring an endless sequence of obstacles as long as possible.
• Exergaming: A game that encourages the player to exercise and to get into shape.
• Falling Blocks: A game in which blocks fall from the top of the screen, requiring the player to move and flip them so that they'll be arranged in a way to make them disappear, and if the blocks reach the top of the screen then the game ends.
• Fantasy Video Games: A game that features magic.
• Fighting Game: A game that has a martial arts duel. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• First-Person Shooter (FPS): A game in which the perspective is through the eyes of the player character, and the action revolves around shooting. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Flight Sim: A game in which the player flies an airplane as realistically as possible.
• Full Motion Video (Interactive Movie): A game that is based around video clips, and the player must press buttons at the right time, choose the right sequence of clips, or play other games using the video as a backdrop. Sub-genre of an Adventure Game.
• Hack and Slash: A game that has the player character wield primitive, close range melee weaponry, and the goal is to kill as many enemies as possible.
• Hidden Object Game: A game in which there is a photorealistic cluttered scene and the player must find and click on a series of objects in it.
• Horizontal Scrolling Shooter: A Shoot Em Up game that has a horizontal Auto-Scrolling Level, that is, to the left or right.
• Horror Video Games: A game that exploits the fears of players to cause anxiety, fear, and ultimately thrills.
• Idle Game: A genre of game defined by its gameplay, the primary feature of which is that the easiest way to win is to leave the game running by itself for long periods of time.
• Interactive Fiction: An Adventure Game in which the interaction is almost entirely text-based. Sub-genre of an Adventure Game.
• Light Gun Game: A game in which the player has a pointing device that resembles a gun and points it at the screen to shoot on-screen enemies. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Mad Marble Maze: A game in which the player rolls a round object of some kind from the beginning to the end of a level.
• Mascot Fighter: Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny is heavily featured.
• Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG): A game that has hundreds of players interacting with each other in the same world in real-time, which completing quests and leveling up. Sub-genre of a Role-Playing Game.
• Match Three Game: A game in which the player must match three objects of similar color/shape/species to eliminate said objects from the playing field.
• Maze Game : A game that takes place in a maze, and the player must either get from one side of the maze to the other, or clear it of every item that won't kill the player.
• Mecha Game: A game that focuses on Humongous Mecha for combat.
• Metroidvania: A game that combines parts from Adventure Action Games and Platform Games together.
• Minigame Game: A game that has a series of puzzles, challenges and games with very different requirements for defeating them.
• Miscellaneous Games: A page that contains games that nobody could identify the genre of. It really should be cleaned out.
• MUCK: A Multi-User Text-Oriented Game that emphasizes roleplaying and player intervention.
• Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA): A game that has teams of players competing with each other, typically using the point-and-click interface of a Real Time Strategy; but, unlike RTS games, players control only one Hero Unit instead of a military-industrial complex.
• Multi User Dungeon (MUD) and MOO: An Interactive Fiction that allows multiple (perhaps thousands) players to play at the same time.
• MUSH (Multi User Shared Hallucination): A MUD that is just a series of rooms, with players given the bare minimum of interaction systems and let loose to create and manage their own roleplaying.
• Party Game: A Minigame Game in which two to four players compete against each other in a boardgame-like environment.
• Platform Fighter: A fighting game that has great emphasis on maneuverability on dynamic stages.
• Platform Game (Platformer): A game that is about leaping over or onto enemy characters and between platforms of varying heights.
• Point-and-Click Game: A game in which player interacts with the environment by moving the mouse cursor over areas of the screen and clicking on them.
• Pop Up Video Games: A game in which clicking on background items results in cute animations.
• Programming Game: A game in which the player has little to no direct control over the game's events, and must set up the solution, then hit a "go" switch to activate the solution and see if it accomplishes the task correctly.
• Puzzle Game: A game that requires mental skill as well as, or instead of, dexterity and quick reflexes.
• Puzzle Platformer: A game that combines parts from Platform Games and Puzzle Games together.
• Racing Game: A game in which the player drives a vehicle of some kind and races against either other players or time.
• Rail Shooter: A game in which the computer controls most of your movement and you control the shots.
• Raising Sim: A game in which schedules for a game to process are applied, which in turn affects characters in the game, who then develop 'on their own' without constant user interference.
• Real Time Strategy (RTS): A game that focuses on construction and control of a fighting force in battle that takes place in real-time.
• Rhythm Game: A game that will flash commands, and the player has to input the same, synchronized to a beat or melody.
• Roguelike: A game that features Dungeon Crawling with randomly-generated environments randomly stocked from a huge list of monsters and items, Final Death, Anti-Grinding and is Nintendo Hard. Sub-genre of a Role-Playing Game.
• Role-Playing Game (RPG) — see also Tabletop Games (Tabletop RPG): A game in which the player controls a character or party of characters in a statistically abstracted way.
• Room Escape Game: A simplistic type of Point-and-Click Game consisting solely of puzzles to escape a room or series of rooms;
• Science Fiction Video Games: A game that explores a concept that does not exist at the present time, but it someday might.
• Shoot 'em Up (Shmups): A fixed-scrolling shooting game that is not three-dimensional. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Simulation Game (Sim): A game that simulates parts of a reality, fictional or real.
• Space Management Game: A game in which the player must figure out how to make the most out of as little space as possible.
• Sports Game: A game that simulates playing a traditional physical sport.
• Stealth-Based Game: A game in which the player character is too weak to take enemies head-on and must actively hide from them. Sub-genre of an Action-Adventure Game.
• Strategy Game: A game in which the player's strategical and/or tactical thinking is required in order to achieve victory.
• Strategy RPG (SRPG): A game that is a Role Playing Game, but it plays like a Turn Based Strategy or Real Time Strategy.
• Survival Horror: A game that features overwhelmed protagonist(s), oppressive atmosphere and a need for careful management of resources (ammo, health, etc.). Sub-genre of an Action-Adventure Game.
• Teamwork Puzzle Game: A game in which the player controls a group of characters, and progress frequently depends on puzzles making use of this fact.
• Third-Person Shooter (3PS/TPS): A game that combines parts of a First Person Shooter, 3D Platform Game and a Beat Em Up. Sub-Genre of an Action Game.
• Time Management Game: A game in which the player must perform task such as serving food and changing baby's diapers as fast as possible.
• Tower Defense: A game in which the player defends a building from monsters using other buildings, sometimes with a unit or two as back-up.
• Turn-Based Strategy (TBS): A game that is about abstract mechanics of efficiently waging war, exploiting resources and controlling huge groups of combatants all at once.
• Turn-Based Tactics: A game in which the player must control individual soldiers or vehicles.
• Vehicular Combat: A game that has the player control a normally armed motor vehicle and must destroy all enemies.
• Vertical Scrolling Shooter: A Shoot Em Up game that has a vertical Auto Scrolling Level, that is, up or down.
• Western RPG: A North American or European game that features a customizable featureless protagonist.
• Wrestling Game: A game that simulates Professional Wrestling, with grapples, holds and throws.