Escape Room Video Game
An escape room video game, also known as escape the room, room escape, or escape game, is a Computer and video game genres, subgenre of point-and-click adventure game which requires a player to escape from imprisonment by exploiting their surroundings. The room usually consists of a locked door, objects to manipulate, and hidden clues or secret compartments. The player must use the objects to interact with other items in the room to reveal a way to escape. Escape the room games were born out of freeware browser games created in Adobe Flash, but have since become most popular as mobile games for iOS and Android (operating system), Android. Some examples include ''Crimson Room'', ''Viridian Room'', ''MOTAS'', and ''Droom'' (playable until mid-2012). The popularity of these online games has led to the development of escape room, real-life escape rooms all around the world. Elements of escape the room games can be found in other adventure games, such as ''Myst'' and ''Nine Hours, Nin ...
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Computer And Video Game Genres
A video game genre is an informal classification of a video game based on how it is played rather than visual or narrative elements. This is independent of setting, unlike works of fiction that are expressed through other media, such as films or books. For example, a shooter game is still a shooter game, regardless of where or when it takes place. A specific game's genre is open to subjective interpretation. An individual game may belong to several genres at once. History Early attempts at categorizing video games were primarily for organizing catalogs and books. A 1981 catalog for the Atari Video Computer System uses 8 headings: Skill Gallery, Space Station, Classics Corner, Adventure Territory, Race Track, Sports Arena, Combat Zone, and Learning Center. ("Classics", in this case, refers to chess and checkers.) In Tom Hirschfeld's 1981 book '' How to Master the Video Games'', he divides the games into broad categories in the table of contents: ''Space Invaders''-type, ''Astero ...
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