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Music game

Game genre concept

A game genre where gameplay is focused on music and player's interaction with it in various ways, including rhythm, management, generation, and so forth.

115
games
35
platforms
Ikinari Musician (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Ikinari Musician
NES 1987-03-05
Rez (PlayStation 2)
Rez
PS2 2001-11
Inside My Radio (Windows)
Inside My Radio
WIN 2015-05-11
Thumper (Nintendo Switch)
Thumper
SWTC 2017
Space Channel 5 Part 2 (Windows)
Space Channel 5 Part 2
WIN 2011-03-04
Before the Echo (Windows)
Before the Echo
WIN 2011-10-20
Moondust (Commodore 64)
Moondust
C64 1983
Child of Eden (PlayStation 3)
Child of Eden
PS3 2011-09
Electroplankton (Nintendo DS)
Electroplankton
NDS 2005-04
Space Channel 5 Part 2 (Dreamcast)
Space Channel 5 Part 2
DC 2002-02-14
The Adventures of Moktar (Amiga OCS)
The Adventures of Moktar
OCS 1991
Wizards Quest (Dragon32)
Wizards Quest
D32 1986
Music games are also commonly puzzle games, but music game genre is not sub-genre of puzzles.

Sub-genres:
* Music memory (sight-reading [rhythm, pitch, volume], eidetic)
* Music management
* Free form music
... and hybrid/mixed genres

Popular tags

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Parent group

Audio

Child groups

Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, Drummania

Related groups

Game genre
Audio game

Culture
Music theme

Video game
Sound

Games by year

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The first Music game video game was released on October 1978.

Sega, Aksys Games and Konami published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux 19
Windows 17
Tandy Coco 15
Apple II E 7
Dreamcast 5
PS2 5
NES 4
X360 4
Arcade 4
Atari 2600 3
Mac OS X 3
PSP 2
PS3 2
GBA 2
Famicom Disk System 2
Mac OS Classic 2
PS4 1
NeXT 1
BSD 1
OS/2 1
Atari ST 1
Mobile 1
Switch 1
Wii 1
TRS-80 1
iOS 1
Dragon32 1
Nintendo DS 1
Thomson 1
Amiga 1

Most common companies

Sega13
Aksys Games5
Konami3
Drool3
Ubisoft3
Bandai3
Nintendo2
Tokyo Shoseki2
Tandy2
Q Entertainment2
Tom Mix Software2
Microdeal2
Berzerk Studio2
Kasedo Games2
Sundog Systems2