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Simulation video game

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A simulation video game describes a diverse super-category of video games, generally designed to closely simulate real world activities. [1]

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Afrika (video game)

Afrika, known in Southeast Asia as Hakuna Matata, is a photography and safari simulation video game for the PlayStation 3.

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Arch Rivals

Arch Rivals is a basketball arcade game released by Midway in.

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ARMA (series)

ARMA (stylized as AA) is a series of first person tactical military shooters, originally released for Microsoft Windows.

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Biosphere

The biosphere (from Greek βίος bíos "life" and σφαῖρα sphaira "sphere") also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος oîkos "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.

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Blackjack

Blackjack, also known as twenty-one, is a comparing card game between usually several players and a dealer, where each player in turn competes against the dealer, but players do not play against each other.

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BMX racing

BMX racing is a type of off-road bicycle racing.

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BMX Simulator

BMX Simulator is a sports arcade video game released by Codemasters in for the Commodore 64 and later ported to other home computer systems.

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Business game

Business game (also called business simulation game) refers to simulation games that are used as an educational tool for teaching business.

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By Fair Means or Foul

By Fair Means or Foul (later also released as Pro Boxing Simulator) is a boxing video game first published for a range of 8-bit home computers in 1988 by Superior Software.

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Championship Manager

The Championship Manager is a series of British football-management simulation computer games, the first of which was released in 1992.

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Codemasters

The Codemasters Software Company Limited (formerly Electric Games Company Limited), doing business as Codemasters, is a British video game developer and publisher founded by David Darling and his brother Richard in 1986.

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ColecoVision

The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries' second-generation home video-game console that was released in August 1982.

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Combat flight simulator

Combat flight simulators are simulation video games (similar to amateur flight simulation software) used to simulate military aircraft and their operations.

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Computer simulation

Computer simulation is the reproduction of the behavior of a system using a computer to simulate the outcomes of a mathematical model associated with said system.

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Dating

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a prospective partner in an intimate relationship or marriage.

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Dating sim

Dating sims, or, are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.

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David Darling (entrepreneur)

David Darling (born 17 June 1966 in London) is a British video game developer and entrepreneur, known for co-founding Codemasters, with his brother Richard Darling, and for being involved in a long succession of top ten games over more than 30 years.

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Educational game

Educational games are games explicitly designed with educational purposes, or which have incidental or secondary educational value.

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Extreme sport

Extreme sports are recreational activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk.

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Flight simulator

A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes.

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Future US

Future US, Inc. (formerly known as Imagine Media and The Future Network USA) is an American media corporation specializing in targeted magazines and websites in the video games, music, and technology markets.

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Game

A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.

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Game classification

Game classification is the classification of games, forming a game taxonomy.

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Games and learning

Games and learning is a field of education research that studies what is learned by playing video games, and how the design principles, data and communities of video game play can be used to develop new learning environments.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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GamesRadar+

GamesRadar+ is an entertainment website dedicated to video game-related news, previews and reviews, that is owned by Future Publishing (a subsidiary of Future plc).

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.

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Grand Prix Simulator

Grand Prix Simulator is a racing game developed by The Oliver Twins and published by Codemasters for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computer systems.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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LifeSigns: Surgical Unit

LifeSigns: Surgical Unit, released in Europe as LifeSigns: Hospital Affairs, is an adventure game for the Nintendo DS set in a hospital.

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List of Sim video games

This is a list of Sim games, their expansion packs, and compilations.

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List of simulation video games

This is a list of simulation games for all video game platforms.

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List of vehicular combat games

Vehicular combat games (also known as just vehicular combat or car combat) are typically video or computer games where the primary objectives of gameplay includes vehicles, armed with weapons such as machine guns, lasers, missiles, rocket launchers, chainsaws, flamethrowers, molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, hand grenades, and other improvised weapons, attempting to destroy vehicles controlled by the CPU or by opposing players.

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Madden NFL

Madden NFL (originally known as John Madden Football until 1993) is an American football video game series developed by EA Tiburon for EA Sports.

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Mastertronic

Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983.

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Maxis

EA Maxis is a subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA).

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Medical simulation

Medical simulation, or more broadly, healthcare simulation, is a branch of simulation related to education and training in medical fields of various industries.

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Military exercise

A military exercise or war game is the employment of military resources in training for military operations, either exploring the effects of warfare or testing strategies without actual combat.

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Next Generation (magazine)

Next Generation (also known as NextGen) was a video game magazine that was published by Imagine Media (now Future Network USA).

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Oliver Twins

Andrew Nicholas Oliver and Philip Edward Oliver, collectively known as the Oliver Twins, are British twin brothers and video game designers.

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Pachinko

is a type of mechanical game originating in Japan and is used as both a form of recreational arcade game and much more frequently as a gambling device, filling a Japanese gambling niche comparable to that of the slot machine in Western gaming.

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Pinball

Pinball is a type of arcade game, in which points are scored by a player manipulating one or more steel balls on a play field inside a glass-covered cabinet called a pinball table (or "pinball machine").

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Play-by-post role-playing game

A play-by-post role-playing game (or sim) is an online text-based role-playing game in which players interact with each other and a predefined environment via text.

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Pokémon Snap

is a first-person rail shooter and simulation video game co-developed by HAL Laboratory and Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.

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Poker

Poker is a family of card games that combines gambling, strategy, and skill.

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Racing video game

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.

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Roleplay simulation

Roleplay simulation is an experiential learning method in which either amateur or professional roleplayers (also called interactors) improvise with learners as part of a simulated scenario.

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Roulette

Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning little wheel.

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Serious game

A serious game or applied game is a game designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment.

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Sim racing

Sim (simulated) racing is the collective term for computer software that attempts to accurately simulate auto racing, complete with real-world variables such as fuel usage, damage, tire wear and grip, and suspension settings.

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SimCity (1989 video game)

SimCity, later renamed SimCity Classic, is a city-building simulation video game, released on February 2, 1989, and designed by Will Wright for the Macintosh computer.

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SimCity 2000

SimCity 2000 is a city-building simulation video game and the second installment in the ''SimCity'' series.

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SimEarth

SimEarth is a life simulation video game, the second designed by Will Wright, in which the player controls the development of a planet.

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SimLife

SimLife: The Genetic Playground is a video game produced by Maxis in 1992.

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Simulated reality

Simulated reality is the hypothesis that reality could be simulated—for example by quantum computer simulation—to a degree indistinguishable from "true" reality.

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Simulation

Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system.

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Simulation video game

A simulation video game describes a diverse super-category of video games, generally designed to closely simulate real world activities.

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Slot machine

A slot machine (American English), known variously as a fruit machine (British English), puggy (Scottish English), the slots (Canadian and American English), poker machine/pokies (Australian English and New Zealand English), or simply slot (American English), is a casino gambling machine with three or more reels which spin when a button is pushed.

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Social simulation game

Social simulation games are a subgenre of life simulation game that explore social interactions between multiple artificial lives.

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Space flight simulation game

A space flight simulation game is a genre of flight simulator video games that lets players experience space flight to varying degrees of realism.

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Sport

Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.

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Strategy game

A strategy game or strategic game is a game (e.g. video or board game) in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome.

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Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a physician who performs surgical operations.

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Tabletop game

Tabletop games are games that are normally played on a table or other flat surface, such as board games, card games, dice games, miniatures wargames or tile-based games.

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Tactical shooter

A tactical shooter is a subgenre of shooter game that includes both first-person shooting and third-person shooting.

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Team sport

A team sport includes any sport which involves two or more players working together towards a shared objective.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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Train simulator

A train simulator (also railroad simulator or railway simulator) is a computer based simulation of rail transport operations.

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Training

Training is teaching, or developing in oneself or others, any skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies.

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Trauma Center: Under the Knife

Trauma Center: Under the Knife is a simulation game developed and published by Atlus for the Nintendo DS and is the first entry in the ''Trauma Center'' series.

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Vehicle simulation game

Vehicle simulation games are a genre of video games which attempt to provide the player with a realistic interpretation of operating various kinds of vehicles.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Wargame (video games)

Wargames are a subgenre of strategy video games that emphasize strategic or tactical warfare on a map, as well as historical (or near-historical) accuracy.

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Will Wright (game designer)

William Ralph "Will" Wright (born January 20, 1960) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the former game development company Maxis, and then part of Electronic Arts (EA).

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Your Sinclair

Your Sinclair, or YS as it was commonly abbreviated, was a British computer magazine for the Sinclair range of computers, mainly the ZX Spectrum.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_video_game

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