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A Platform game (or platformer) is a video game which involves guiding an avatar to jump between suspended platforms and/or over obstacles to advance the game.

The player controls the jumps to avoid letting the avatar fall from platforms or miss necessary jumps.

The most common unifying element of games of this genre is the jump button, but now there are other alternative like swiping in touchscreen.

Jumping, in this genre, may include swinging from extendable arms, as in Ristar or Bionic Commando, or bouncing from springboards or trampolines, as in Alpha Waves.

These mechanics, even in the context of other genres, are commonly called platforming, a verbification of platform.

Games where jumping is automated completely, such as 3D games in The Legend of Zelda series, fall outside of the genre.

An arcade game or coin-op is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.

Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games or merchandisers.

While exact dates are debated, the golden age of arcade video games is usually defined as a period beginning sometime in the late 1970s and ending sometime in the mid-1980s.

Excluding a brief resurgence in the early 1990s, the arcade industry subsequently declined in the Western hemisphere as competing home-based video game consoles such as Playstation and Xbox increased in their graphics and game-play capability and decreased in cost.

Puzzle video games are a genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving.

The types of puzzles can test many problem-solving skills including logic, pattern recognition, sequence solving, and word completion.

The player may have unlimited time or attempts to solve a puzzle, or there may be simple puzzles made difficult by having to complete them in real-time, as in Tetris.

Shooter games are a subgenre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time.

It includes many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon.

Usually this weapon is a gun, or some other long-range weapon.

A common resource found in many shooter games is ammunition.

Most commonly, the purpose of a shooter game is to shoot opponents and proceed through missions without the player character being killed or dying.

A shooting game is a genre of video game where the player has limited spatial control of his or her character, and the focus is almost entirely on the defeat of the character's enemies using long-range weaponry.

The racing video game genre is the genre of video games, either in the first-person or third-person perspective, in which the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land, water, air or space vehicles.

They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings.

In general, they can be distributed along a spectrum anywhere between hardcore simulations, and simpler arcade racing games.

Racing games may also fall under the category of sports games.