| Console Classix | Available to play at Console Classix | 1977 / 2011 | 3489 games |
| MAME | An emulator available for almost any platform. (clones and bootlegs are merged to the parent) | 1972 / 2006 | 2649 games |
| Planet Earth | All or part of the story takes place on Earth of the Sol star system. | 1976 / 2013 | 2205 games |
| Walking | Player can or must move about on foot, regardless of speed. | 1976 / 2012 | 1965 games |
| Magic | Features anything definitely magical or strange mystic powers. | 1974 / 2012 | 1577 games |
| Future | Set in the future, as seen from the point of the game's release. | 1978 / 2013 | 1453 games |
| Extra lives | Player character has multiple "lives". | 1978 / 2012 | 1388 games |
| Monsters | Includes any kind of creatures with terrifying or otherwise horribly deformed/repulsive (monstrous) appearance, regardless if their personality matches this. Commonly assumed to be mindless savages. | 1974 / 2012 | 1264 games |
| Mêlée weapons | Player can use non-projectile weapons which require both the user and the target to be in direct contact with them. | 1978 / 2013 | 1251 games |
| Grid | Uses a grid of any shape or type. | 1976 / 2012 | 1120 games |
| Difficulty levels | Player has choice of game difficulty. | 1978 / 2012 | 1108 games |
| Firearms | Player can use projectile weapons that use a controlled explosion to propel a bullet at the intended target. | 1981 / 2013 | 1100 games |
| Media: Download | Full game legally distributed as digital download. | 1986 / 2011 | 1097 games |
| UVL: Platform/Operating System Limitation | Temporarily used in cases where a game is listed in a [i][b]completely[/b] unrelated[/i] platform until it is decided how the platform should be handled. | 1971 / 2012 | 1091 games |
| Female protagonist | Player controls a female character. | 1981 / 2012 | 1060 games (12 characters) |
| Simple DirectMedia Layer | A cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. | 1986 / 2012 | 1053 games |
| Soccer | Soccer, known as football by most of the world. Played with a round ball only goalies can touch with their hands. Not to be confused with American Football. | 1972 / 2011 | 1048 games |
| Not on Console Classix | Not available to play at Console Classix | 1982 / 2010 | 1030 games |
| Movie tie-in | Based on a movie or made into a movie. | 1974 / 2012 | 1028 games |
| Traditional game | Video game adaptation of a traditional game. Or uses real traditional gaming materials. | 1976 / 2012 | 1014 games |
| Other Language: No Significant Language content. | For games that give no instructions, significant story, nor any critical language based information; they can be intuitively operated without language | 1972 / 2012 | 998 games |
| UVL: Missing images | Has some images, but there are known gamestates or events that could be beneficial to have additionally among the images. Such as title screens, screens of specific game modes or "windows", and so forth. | 1975 / 2012 | 990 games |
| Anime tie-in | Based on anime or was made into anime. | 1980 / 2011 | 972 games |
| Serious | Presented in an overall serious tone, though not necessarily completely devoid of humor (e.g. hidden jokes, word play, etc.). | 1978 / 2012 | 959 games |
| OpenGL | Uses or can use OGL for graphics. OpenGL is a cross-platform, cross-languge API for 2D and 3D graphics originally developed by Silicon Graphics, now developed and maintained by Khronos Group. | 1983 / 2012 | 873 games |
| Space aliens | Features (sentient) extraterrestrial alien creatures. | 1978 / 2012 | 861 games (1 characters) |
| Ubuntu Linux | Comes with/Installs very simply on Ubuntu. | 1976 / 2012 | 834 games |
| Jumping | | 1981 / 2012 | 829 games |
| Boss battles | Includes one or more battles with enemies who are significantly more powerful than anything else thrown at the player prior, usually found at the end of a level. | 1981 / 2012 | 827 games |
| Robots | Includes robots of any kind. | 1977 / 2012 | 819 games |
