Top Ten Dying Game Genres

Ant sent us a fun link to an article running over at GameSpy discussing the Top 10 Dying Game Genres. Although I don't think Puzzle games have died - I think they've transformed: Pikmin is just a fancy puzzle game, after all ;) But I still want Dr Mario for my GBA.

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Good Fun

[Ken@WearableTech]

Here are my Top 10 Dying Games

• Chainsaw Juggle
• Grand Canyon Go-Kart Jump
• Backyard Pool Harpoon Tag
• Pull Saddam's Mustache
• Switchblade Toss
• Landmine Hopscotch
• Industrial Welding Laser Tag
• Steak Keep-Away with Zoo Lion
• Bleach Bong Part Time
• Grenade Hot Potato

Re:Good Fun

[hemp]

You forgot my all time fav - Lawn Darts!!

Re:Good Fun

[troc]

Bet you typed that one handed though ;)

Troc

Re:Good Fun

[Cplus]

But not for the reason that you're thinking.

Re:first post

[product byproduct]

Getting first post is certainly not a dying game genre.

My Top Five Dying Game Genres

[CySurflex]

My Top Five Dying Game Genres

• Tie-Dye Games
  
• Hair Salon Hair Dying Games
  
• Underwear Bleaching Games
  
• Pavement Reconstruction and Dying Games
  
• Britney Spears Hena Tatoo Skin Dying Games
  

My vote..

[ath0mic]

... would have to go to the whole paddle tennis craze that hit the nation awhile back. What was that game called... ping? ... no that's not it.

adult games

[chillax137]

Has anyone ever tried to play one of those adult games? They're probably the least entertaining of all but I imagine they will last quite a bit longer than most others. At least until every computer gamer has a girlfriend/hell freezes over.

Re:adult games

[Anonymous Coward]

Go laugh at the top 10 Naughtiest games of all times. I laughed my @$$ off.

http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/naughty.htm

Re:adult games

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, it might be obvious, but have you tried to make your GF actually *want* to have sex? As in, something that she will look forward to?

But then again, I don't live in the USofA.

Thank goodness...

[Ignominious Poltroon]

Naked BMX racing games are alive and well!

Re:Graphic Adventures

[Anonymous Coward]

I mean, who could say no to 3D Day of the Tentacle?

Isn't that hentai?

If so... I'll take it.

/. prediction in article itself

[ryants]

The only thing we know for sure is that -- no matter what -- there will be some dork out there bitching and moaning about how great games used to be, and how they don't make them like they used to.

Oh wow... the article just predicted what 85% of the /. posts on this topic are going to be.

That's like... weird, or something.

To round out the list:

• "That's not really dying" posts.
• Nostalgia posts ("I remember those games...").
• Michael Moore's speech was great/terrible posts.

and of course

• Posts that attempt to summarise what future posts will be like.

Re:/. prediction in article itself

[BigJimSlade]

You insensitive clod! You left one out!

• Posts criticizing other posts that try to summarize all posts for a given Slashdot discussion.
  

I hope you'll keep this in mind for the future.

Re:Duck hunt

[Anonymous Coward]

Duck hunt has been replaced with kill the popups. ;)

Re:Tetris?

[NeuroKoan]

Isn't there a law somewhere that every electronic device that come out has to have Tetris programed into it?

If not, it should be...

Re:Lucas Arts

[saskboy]

Laughing because you said "whip out" and "monkey" in the same sentence.

I wonder why all the games I played as a kid are listed in that list? Even Sticky Bear made the list, and I thought no one had even heard of it.

Re:Right

[general_re]

What would Dance Dance Revolution be classified under?

Based on a few people I've seen, I'd say "neuromuscular disorder"....

Freud Strikes Again!

[Landaras]

Surely I'm not the only one who misread your last item as "Britney Spears Hentai..."

Re:Sierra dead? Larry Laffer LIVES!

[anagama]

No game was ever better than Liesure Suit Larry: EGA pr0n with a plot! If only I had a 5.25" drive, I think I still have the disks for LSL3.

Dr. Mario for the Game Boy

[waffle zero]

Hmm what do we have here?

Dr Mario - Preowned

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[account_deleted]

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Don't think so.

[Xner]

I guess there will always be people that set up the holodeck to simulate a 1996 PC to play Masters of Magic.

*BSD

[inode_buddha]

Oh.

I thought all games fell into 1 catagory...

[teamhasnoi]

The "Not getting laid tonight" catagory.

Re:My favourite game

[ThaReetLad]

On the plus side we do now have a new twist on the old Civilization type genre. Suicide diplomacy. You start with loads of goodwill, friends and allies, and you have to try to alienate them all in the shortest possible time.

Re:Muds are still going.

[questamor]

I get a similar kind of feeling when I open up a terminal, as when I used to play TBAs.

----
"You are in a directory. The sign above the well worn path reads /etc. All around you see the most villanous, evil scum in the galaxy. Sitting in the far corner is the worst of them all, sendmail.cf "

# cd ~
You run home like a cowardly dog, tail between your legs.
#
----
Ahh. memories.

The human race will be dead.

[RedCard]

Dilbert said it best... "When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, the human race is doomed."

Girl at door: "Is Dilbert home?"
Dogbert: "He's been in the holodeck since March".

Ahhhh well... you know it's true! ;)

Re:Adventure Games, Dead?

[meringuoid]

I don't think so. Monkey Island 4 came out about a year ago, and there will probably be a MI:5. I hope so, for Threepwood's sake.

Yes, of course there'll be a Monkey Island 5. Remember, the Voodoo Lady has an unbreakable five-game contract with LucasArts.

Re:not a good article...

[Anonymous Coward]

Everytime Slashdot posts an article about it (last one) [slashdot.org], there's a mass Geek orgasm

Oh lord, what a mental image you've just planted!

Re:Monkey Island -- Prince Of Persia

[digitalgiblet]

Prince of Persia was cool.

I loved the metal guillotine gates you had to jump through.

Man you would NOT want to have to get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom in that palace...

Re:More dying genres...

[Flabby Boohoo]

"...Where you have to wiggle your joystick as fast as you can."

I think this is true for the sex games as well?

Re:Right

[arkanes]

I was at an arcade in Santa Cruz where the had the drumming games, and once kinda spiffy one where you had to match things by waving your hands around these globes. I think it was supposed to emulate goth dancing :P

On a side, note, DDR may seem stupid but a) it's really damn hard and b) people who're really good at it look amazing. I watched some guy do all the hardest levels in the arcade, and it was like watching a professional tap dancer. I, on the other hand, look like someone tazed a rabbit.

Puzzle games

[Bull999999]

Puzzle games aren't dead. Since no one's buying them, they just inserted them into RPGS (Remember Final Fantasy X?).

Re:Right

[athakur999]

I can attest to that. There's a nickel arcade nearby that has DDR. We took my nephew there once and he did pretty good. On the next visit it was just me and the GF. We thought, "if a little seven year old can do it, we can too." It seems so simple. See an arrow pointing up, stick your foot on the top pad. Can't be too difficult, right?

Needless to say, we were both utterly humiliated. Luckily, it was late at night on a weekday so we were one of the few people there...

What's more:

[Jewbird]

They didn't even mention the one genre that actually is dying: the FPS. I think that's now the exclusive domain of the mod community and has gone the way of puzzle games and shooters: free.