Topic: List of all genres of games Nintendo has done

Oh oh! Add starfy to the platforming section!

@Greatluigi One step ahead of you my friend!

Splatoon as TPS.
Pilotwings as simulation.
Duck Hunt, etc. as light gun.
Yoshi Safari as the original FPS.
Xenoblade X as MMORPG.

@Munchlax Thanks!

How about Pokemon Trading Card game for card games? Not the physical game, though Nintendo does have a history with cards, I mean the Game Boy Color game. Speaking of Pokemon, Pokemon Pinball is pinball, albeit a Game Boy Color game.

Speaking of pinball, here's a random fact, Nintendo actually published The Little Mermaid II: Pinball Frenzy on Game Boy Color. A Disney game published by Nintendo, I still remember commercials for it.

Surprised to see a lack of fighting games here; there's the obvious of Smash of course but then there's other ones such as Punch Out which sort of blur the lines between fighting, rhythm and puzzle game.

@Sunsy Nice, thanks!

@Fizza It's a work in progress honestly, and I wanted to do it here to get input like that, that is a crucial category so thanks!

@Professor_Plumber Glad to be of assistance! Oh and for the eventual fighting game category, you could also add in ARMS, Pokken and, if we want to get really obscure, Kirby Fighters and Sukapon.

EDIT: Whilst I'm here, you could also throw in Mario and Kirby into the Pinball category and have a Dungeon Crawler one for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon!

@Professor_Plumber You're welcome, you could also add Kirby Pinball Land and Mario Pinball Land to pinball as well. Forgot about those two.

Metroid Prime Pinball anyone?

@Professor_Plumber

I would definitely include a maker or builder category with Game Builder Garage, Mario Maker. Labo could be here also.

If you really wanted to you could also add Art (Mario Paint) and Education (Mario teaches typing 😂 but maybe not this one... see comment below). Gameboy Camera could be moved to art just to have a place to live.

Also, you have a puzzle-platformer category but not a category for other puzzle games. snipperclips should be in some type of puzzle category. Mario Picross, Dr Mario, etc. are also puzzle games.

oh, and you are missing visual novel e.g. Famicom Detective Club games.

Edit: some series which are missing from existing categories: boxboy is a puzzle-platformer. Personally I would put both Wario and Big Brain Academy under Party games. Clubhouse games should be somewhere too. If there is a card/board game category as suggested above, it could go there.

Edit of Edit: I would seperate sports games and exercise games. I know there is a smidge of overlap just because of motion controls, but Ring Fit and Wii Fit and Jump Rope game should not be in the same category as Mario Strikers. Actual exercise games are a pretty unique thing Nintendo basically (re)invented whereas sports games are a dime a dozen. Mario Tennis/Olympics/strikers/golf/etc. are clearly sport but not exercise games. One can argue whether Switch sports is a sport game, a (low-level) exercise game or just a party game.

Would Mario Teaches Typing even count? I believe it was developed for PC by Interplay, and published by Interplay (or MacPlay for the Mac version). Do games have to be developed or published by Nintendo?

This also kind of puts Mario Is Missing and Mario's Time Machine in an odd situation as those were not published nor developed by Nintendo either. The Software Toolworks made those.

They seem to be Mario games, but not made by Nintendo, rather licensed I'm guessing.

@Sunsy Valid point. I was trying to remember if there were any truly educational Nintendo games and all I could think of were the fake Mario PC games. I think maybe there aren't any 'real' ones so maybe that category isn't needed.

Probably this list should be games both published by Nintendo but also ones where Nintendo has ownership of the franchise in some real sense ( so we exclude all the square enix games technically 'published' by Nintendo)

This list should probably only include franchises people here have heard of, but a good source of 'is this actually a Nintendo game' seems to be here:

https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_franchises

The discussion of whether Bayonetta counts is an interesting one.

A completely forgotten one here (not that I remembered it before I looked on Wikipedia) is Art Academy. It's owned wholly by Nintendo and fits an art or edutainment category, as Wikipedia classifies it as the latter. If we wanna get technical here, the newest game in the series is Disney Art Academy which is still published by Nintendo so we COULD theoretically throw licensed games in here too 😂

@Professor_Plumber

Racing: Excitebikes/Excitebots.
Puzzle: (Kirby) Kirby's Avalanche & (Pokemon) Pokemon Puzzle League.

And Pokemon is also missing from Turn-based RPG's.

Also Pokken is a separate series that should be listed under fighters.

If we're counting all Nintendo-published games there's also Pullblox/Pushmo, though I'm not sure whether you'd call it a puzzle game or a puzzle platformer. I don't think Adventures of Lolo should be on there by the way, it was published and developed by HAL so it's not really anything to do with Nintendo.

Guys we all forgot about Pokémon under turned based RPG lol.

A lot of odd inclusions and omissions here. Not sure what your requirements are for something being added or not. Few thoughts:

• I would put Wii Fit and Ring Fit Adventure under the category "Fitness" rather than sport. They're not sport games. I would put stuff like Mario Strikers/Tennis etc under "sport" alongside Wii Sport. Wii Fit is a different thing
• Metroid literally has an entire genre named after it so it seems a bit wrong to call it a 2D platformer here. Put Metroid as Metroidvania. Also I would say Metroid Prime is closer to this genre than it is FPS because, frankly, you don't spend a lot of time in Metroid Prime shooting
• If we're including 1-2 Switch under Party games we should also include Nintendo Land and Wii Play
• If we're including the GB Camera we should possibly include AR Games on the 3DS given it gives us, you know, AR Games which is a distinctive genre
• I'd probably combine Rail & Gallery shooters and put Kid Icarus Uprising, Sin & Punishment & Duck Hunt on the same line

also............. what on earth is Balloon Fight

How about spectrobes under the action rpg section?

Also the Art Style/bit Generations games and Electroplankton. The former I suppose you'd describe as kind of Kinetic Puzzle games and the latter was I guess a music sim? Also, is Punch-Out!! a fighting game? If it is it's not really in the same class as Smash Bros or Arms. More of a rhythm/puzzle game with a boxing theme than a fighting game. Doesn't feel like it should be on the same line at any rate

Though I guess when you boil it all down, genres are kinda stupid. The more interesting and unique a game is the harder it is to fit it into a rigid "genre". Same goes for genres in any space I guess