Talk:Minigame
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[edit] sentence removed
I removed my edit that I made. I can't prove it, although I remember reading something about it in an old EGM issue. If anyone can prove it, put it back in. Thunderbrand 21:20, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
- I don't remember any games. There are some games that have things to do, but I wouldn't consider them a mini-game, more like mini-activities :) K1Bond007 21:28, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
- EverQuest has a tetris-like minigame called Gems (for people who are bored)
- Commander Keen 4 (if i remember correctly) had a minigame similar to Pong which was for some reason called Tug of War (?). The series probably had a few other minigames too. --Ajshm 12:37, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
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- Paddle War. 68.44.13.236 03:36, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Some minigames that I find notable (I'm not throwing them straight into the article because it should not degenerate into a simple "List of Computer games with minigames"):
- The card games in Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy IX tie into the main game in a unique way (they are part of the story line). FFIX also has a host of other minigames. Xenogears also has a card minigame, though it is not as important. In fact, something like that has become somwhat of a standard feature of a console RPG.
- System Shock 2 had an item called the GamePig, which is essentially a TriOptimum branded Game Boy. You can find game cartridges for it (Pong, OverWorld Zero (a simple Ultima clone), SwineKeeper (Minesweeper) etc.) and play them in the HUD of the main game.
-- grm_wnr Esc 13:28, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
- Does anybody know which is the first game containing minigames? I wonder --Grebello 15:09, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
SMB3? ChozoBoy (talk) 20:16, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] contained within another game.
A minigame is not always contained within another game. Sometimes minigames are created as separat promotional download or for separat promotion CD's or as website game. One example of many: http://www.megagames.com/news/html/freegames/castleattack2.shtml as download for promotion of Stronghold 2
[edit] Tape loading games
Some tape games of the 1980s had (IIRC) minigames to entertain the player during the lengthy loading process. Drutt 11:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
