Types of Video Games

Normal Games:

These games are arguably the staple Japanese video game genre that corner most of the market.

1. Fighting Games

Japanese fighting games have always been there to take the stress out of video gamers aching for a good slugfest. Whether it’s a sleek, combo-type fighting games, to simple simulation-type fights, Japanese games has everything covered in the duke-out games.

Notable Fighting games:

Tekken series(NAMCO) and Street Fighter series(CAPCOM).

2. Role Playing Games (RPGs)

This is where Japanese video games really excel in. To some extent, some foreign video game fans go the full length of importing these RPGs because they provide creative storylines, various game play modes and very unique graphics.

Notable RPGs:

Final Fantasy Series (Squaresoft) and Star Ocean series (Enix)

3. Third Person games

Another Japanese video game staple is the third person genre. Usually an action/adventure game, Japanese video games of the sort are usually top notch, and some even rival the more-popular RPGs in terms of recognition.

Notable 3rd person game:

Biohazard (known as Resident Evil) by Capcom

4. Platform Games

These games tend to be the choice for parties, as players usually play through puzzles and other challenges. The usual Japanese video games of these sort feature cute and adorable characters with bazaar powers.

Notable platform games:

Super Mario Brothers (Nintendo) and Sonic The Hedgehog by Sega.

THE NOT-SO-NORMAL GAMES:

Whether it’s a culture thing or credit it to plain Japanese creativity, we all know that the Japanese have some wild and crazy video games out there. Let us try and see what type of games they have.

1. Simulations

Drop the notion of a simple “The SIMS” type of game right now. The Japanese video game industry is well-known for all type of simulation games out there. Whether it is sports, pets, machine or whatever comes in your head, the Japanese probably has them.

2. Musical Games

Give credit to the Japanese video game industry for providing games that really caters to those musically-inclined gamers. Games involving guitars, drums and the most crazy dance steps there is sure bear the Japanese influence on them.

Notable video musical games:

Konami’s Beat Mania and Dance, Dance Revolution series and Sony’s PaRappa the Rapper.

3. Sexually-themed games

Oh, we’re not just talking about heterosexual games here. You really have to wonder at how open-minded these Japanese video games are, as they have video games that have plots on straight, gay or whatever sexual preference people might have.

4. No Category Games

Some Japanese video games are just plain out weird that it doesn’t even fit a specific genre, but are all interesting and amusing just the same. From playing as a bloodsucking mosquito (Mr. Mosquito) to just rolling things over into a giant ball(Katamari Damacy) of everything, Japanese video games are just plain out unexplainable at times.