Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multi-player design difficult. "Colossal Cave Adventure" is identified as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include "Zork", "King's Quest", "The Secret of Monkey Island", and "Myst".
Side-scrolling video game
In 1984, "Pac-Land" took the scrolling platformer a step further, aspiring to be more than a simple game of hurdle jumping. It was not only a successful title, but it more closely resembled later scrolling platformers like "Wonder Boy" and "Super Mario Bros". It also featured multi-layered parallax scrolling. That same year saw the release of "Legend of Kage", which offered levels that extended in all directions. Sega released "Flicky", a simple platformer with horizontally scrolling levels that featured their first mascot character. Namco followed up "Pac-Land" with the fantasy-themed "Dragon Buster" the following year.