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Altered genre

Game genre concept

Takes a known genre and changes it in a way that it is no longer correctly described as it despite having identifiable elements from it.

46
games
16
platforms
Lady Bug (Intellivision)
Lady Bug
INTV 1983
Android Wipe Out (Apple II E)
Android Wipe Out
IIE 1983-06-10
UnSummoning: The Spectral Horde (Linux)
UnSummoning: The Spectral Horde
LIN 2014
Lady Bug (Arcade)
Lady Bug
ARCD 1981
Guild of Dungeoneering (Windows)
Guild of Dungeoneering
WIN 2015-07-14
Fighting Bug (Casio PV-1000)
Fighting Bug
CPVK 1983
Lady Bug (ColecoVision)
Lady Bug
COL 1982
Bilbo (Atari 400/800)
Bilbo
A800 1986
Not Pacman (Linux)
Not Pacman
LIN 2013
Catch the Buzz 2 (Macintosh OS Classic)
Catch the Buzz 2
MAC 1995
Triptych (Linux)
Triptych
LIN 2003
Lady Bug (Atari 2600 VCS)
Lady Bug
VCS 2006-08-26
These may be simply unique instances of a genre or first in a so far unnamed sub-genre.

Best case scenario is that no games stay tagged with this forever.
See also: unknown genre, hybrid game

Popular tags

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Games by year

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The first Altered genre video game was released in 1975.

Stabyourself, Perpetual Pyramid and 11 bit studios published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux 21
Apple II E 4
Mac OS X 3
Windows 3
Tandy Coco 2
Altair 8800 2
Atari 400/800 2
MS-DOS 1
Casio PV-1000 1
ColecoVision 1
Intellivision 1
Odyssey2 1
Arcade 1
Atari 2600 1
Sharp MZ 1
Mac OS Classic 1

Most common companies

Stabyourself4
Perpetual Pyramid3
11 bit studios3
Creative Computing3
Q-Games2
dlan2
Coleco2