When was this no more than one game each type rule decided, I think it was two games some time ago?(posted 9349 days ago)Also in my opinion this rule sucks somewhat, atleast how it's carried out. As I see it there was at T3 three samekind of games(platform): Xenophobe, Ghouls and Ninjakidx are truly in the same category- jumping, going forward and shooting enemies. So there was something very wrong when choosing games for T3. Those 3 games bored me to the extreme, and according to that poll made I was not only one bored with them. Also there were Amidar and Ladybug-both being kinda same type of maze games. Not that I cared, it's very essential type of classic game.
Important thing is not gategorizing games, but figuring out which of the games has allmost identical GAMEPLAY. Some games can simply not be categorized at all, because they're kind of unique. Furthermore there are not enough kategories.
example: Previous post in this thread: Arkanoid(breakout)-what category is that?
Galaxian(vertical shooter), Gunsmoke(vertical shooter)- They are definitely not same kind of games, gameplay is whole different(think about controls that you would use as playing them...). What ever happened to term "shoot them up"?
Klax(puzzle)- Is there really any same kind of game to be compared with Klax?
SF2(oneononefighter), Tagteamwrestling(sports?????)- Why Karate Champ is not sports then? Aren't SF2 and Wrestling the same kind of games? Is sports really a reasonable category? Would you think that 10 yard fight and Hypersports are same kind of game? What about "action" then, is it somekind of dump kategory
Oh this helped a lot. Maybe not you gameboy, but good therapy for me. My advice is to try all the games and use common sense, that's all for now.