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Main article: Action game
Action games emphasize physical challenges that require hand-eye coordination and motor skill to overcome. They center around the player, who is in control of most of the action. Most of the earliest video games were considered action games; today, it is still a vast genre covering all games that involve physical challenges.
Action games are classified by many subgenres. Platform games and fighting games are among the best-known subgenres, while shooter games became and continue to be one of the dominant genres in video gaming since the 1990s.[3][4] Action games usually involve elements of twitch gameplay.[3]
Main article: Platform game
Platform games feature vertical environments with leaping and climbing between suspended platforms, hence the name
platform game
.
Platform games (or platformers) have gameplay primarily centered around jumping and climbing to navigate the player's environment. They may have enemies or obstacles to avoid and fight or may just be pure jumping puzzles. Generally the playable characters in a platform game are able to jump many times their own height and the player is offered some control over their movement in midair as well as the height and distance of their jumps.[2] Settings tend to be vertically exaggerated with much uneven terrain that the player can leap up to or fall off of.
Donkey Kong (1981) was one of the earliest and best-known platformers; the American gaming press classified it using the term climbing game at the time.[5] [Super Mario Bros.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.) (1985) was one of the best-selling games of all time, with more than 40 million copies sold.[6]
Main article: Shooter game
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