10 Video Game Genres THAT HAVE VANISHED

I do miss couch co-op/split-screen adventure games. My sister and I grew up playing lots of those types of games and they feel like they are almost completely gone today.

number 5 really hit in the feelings. car combat games were my favourite and it's a shame no one is doing them anymore

I'm surprised to not see Point and Click Adventure Games on the list. This genre was one of the biggest in the 90s and early 2000s and then sort of vanished. I loved playing the Broken Sword series and Runaway, but the list of great games in that genre may go on and on. Also, I'd definitely add Tycoon games. So many of these kept popping up, the likes of Rollercoaster Tycoon, Airline Tycoon as the most notable examples. But also Transport Tycoon and games like Pizza Syndicate deserve a mention.

Giant mech games from the 90’s. Mechwarrior, Earthsiege, Heavy Gear, etc. These games were more of a hobby for me. Reason to buy a flight stick and a set of headphones with a microphone and voice command software for giving orders. This was my greatest gaming experience from the 90’s.

I used to dig point-and-click adventures. Maniac Mansion, Full Throttle, Longest Journey, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Secret of Monkey Island... for a while during the 90s they were everywhere for PC and had some real gems.

There were a couple of Genres which feel "more dead" than several mentioned here: 1. Point & Click Adventures 2. Textadventures 3. MUDs 4. Dungeoncrawlers (Step based, like Dungeonmaster) 5. (German Style) Economy Sims (not "Citybuilders", but games where you do management decisions, buy and sell and easily go bankrupt, lots of them from Germany, Like "Hanse", Fugger, Mad TV, Der Planer, Capitalism...) I think the only derivate still existing is Sports Management games

Shoutout to the music video game genre, specifically Guitar Hero! After the third game released, i was inspired to learn how to play guitar for real. My dad warned me it would be very different from the game but once i started getting lessons, the songs from Guitar Hero and Rock Band really kept me motivated to never stop learning new songs. Here i am at the age of 25 and now i can play guitar, bass, drums, and some piano. I've also had more than 20 live performances. This is proof that video games can change someone's life 🎸🎶

Rhythm games have been doing very well in the VR space. Beat Saber, and Synth Riders are pretty huge and still well supported.

I worked in the gaming department of a best buy when guitar hero 3 came out. That was about the time that everyone got burnt out on music games. We were left with 200 plastic guitars we couldn't shift. Being the biggest best buy in texas at the time, we had to get creative. We hosted guitar hero events to sell some , we stealthily shipped them off to smaller stores low on inventory. The rest we had to mark down 75%. Honestly for a solid 2 years the biggest issue in our department was shifting those damn plastic guitars.

I wish the RTS genre would pickup again! They are incredible and have always been my favorite to play competitively... Great video Jake and the gameranx crew 💙

That's why I love indie games, because they always rescure older genres

Another good one is "Demolition Derby" games, back in like the 90s - 2000s every western racing game developer had a demolition derby as a counterpart to their regular racing game series. They were soo popular that I feel like everyone I know had at least one growing up. Funny enough in real life the actual Demolition Derby sport isn't as popular as the games were.

While it wasn't a vehicular combat-only game, Mad Max had some of the best vehicular combat around. Playing it, especially in first-person, really felt like you were in the movies and it worked so well.

This article was so heartbreaking. There were at least 5 of these genres that I so wish would make a comeback. Car combat and extreme sports why did you leave us? Way to make me feel old too.

03:19 the Pikmin series is the best adaptation of a RTS to consoles, IMHO. I am replaying those games in preparation for the 4th, they are awesome.

How could you leave our Carmageddon? Hands down one of the best car combat games ever.

For car combat genre, “Blur” was one of my favorites during the xbox 360 days! got in a lot of hours and fun with friends on that one. miss it for sure.

kinda surprised the adventure genre was left out of this.. it was huge in the 80's and 90's and it gave us some amazing games

The whole arcade racing genre in general is a shadow of its former self too. Today there is Forza Horizon, NFS and some indiegames and a few AA titles releasing occasionally, with the occasional AA+/AAA release in between, like Hot Wheels and Lego 2K. A lot of series have died: Burnout, Motorstorm, WipeOut, Ridge Racer, Tokyo Extreme Racer, Juiced, Midnight Club, Driver.. The rate of "one-off" arcade racers releasing has slowed down a lot too.

I really miss the sneak-em-ups like the Thief and Splinter Cell games. Sure, there are Dishonored games now, but the sneaking is optional, and when you get caught there are other ways to finish the level. I really miss sitting around a Thief level for 20 minutes waiting for the opportune moment to take out a guard.