Why is VideoGameCrueltyPotential/ArcadeGame even a page?

As far as I am concerned, Arcade Game is a platform, not a genre. To quote its entry on Square Peg Round Trope: "they can include all sorts of genres aside from certain long-form styles such as the Role-Playing Game." Such genres include Fighting Games, Platform Games, Driving Games, and many more.

By the same logic, console games, PC games, mobile games, etc. deserve their own subpages, game genres be damned.

On other pages that are divided into folders by game genre I simply remove the Arcade Game folder and reorganize the examples as needed, but now we have a whole subpage for arcade games.

edited 2nd Jun '15 11:49:31 AM by LucaEarlgrey

It might have been an mistake by an inexperienced user

Courtesy link.

Arcade Game is occasionally used as a genre, for those relatively short/repeating, often life-based and most importantly coin-guzzling, point-based action games you usually find in arcades.

Could also just have been the way the page had been sorted before it was split to its own page. And there's some rather inconsistent foldering on the page anyway.

edited 2nd Jun '15 5:22:29 PM by AnotherDuck

In that case, the OP's argument is invalid: Although the sub-page in question is small, but the main page is so large that it needed to be split

Well, I made the edit about the folders, at least.

• Phoenix is a Shoot 'Em Up
• Ikari Warriors etc. are also shoot-em-ups
• Death Race is a driving game, if in the basic sense of the word
• Paperboy is a Rail Shooter

So many of these examples could simply be reorganized into other subpages, and this page repurposed into a misc. page.

edited 2nd Jun '15 10:58:10 PM by LucaEarlgrey

Genres aren't exclusive, though.

But yeah, reworking it as a misc page might be an idea.

Arcade games are often classified in their own thing, and the examples on the page seem pretty valid, so I don't see the issue here.

So maybe then we need a distinction between "game that is an arcade game" and "arcade-style game that may be in arcades but can also be exclusively on consumer platforms".

edited 3rd Jun '15 12:44:33 PM by LucaEarlgrey

Arcade isn't exactly a fixed term anymore so anything using the term should be considered carefully in context of the reference.

It can refer to various games in an arcade, a general style of game design, or even to refer to a less realistic style of game play and controls. For example some games have an "arcade control" scheme and/or an arcade mode. That usually means simplified controls vs realistic or simulator type settings and gameplay. A recent example is found in War Thunder. It has three game modes divided into an Arcade, Realistic, and Sim game modes.