[game_preservation] Descriptive terms for Video Games

[Jim Leonard]

On 6/11/2011 3:29 PM, Andrew Perti wrote:

> It's my contention that we have to completely redefine categorization

> techniques for video games. Many games span several genres and placing

> any given game under a single subject heading by way of a "personal

> judgment call" is quite limiting. Using a single genre may have been

> necessary for physical cataloging and library systems to account for

> research and accessibility. We are now in a digital era and I feel as

> though a multifaceted approach is something that we all need to explore.


This was MobyGames' intention when it was formed.  It was pretty obvious 
by the late 1990s that most types of games were headed towards 
"first-person "something"" so simple categories weren't enough.

I do feel that games can be broken down into their primary core content 
-- adventure, action, strategy, etc.  I think the people trying to 
categorize games make the mistake of thinking that a game can only be 
one type of core category, when it clearly can be multiple at the same time.

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