Sticky games:
Games featuring bands:
Games licensed by humor magazines:
Player is a city-smashing monster:
The bestest arcade game ever made, the closest second being its own sequel, Rampage World Tour.
Another game in that genre is Godzilla - Domination!
A lot of the early “Sim” games, from back when you could stil sell serious, objective-less simulation games and still make a profit.
And I think “The Noid” had a videogame at one point…I’m not sure what you’d classify him as.
And I know of at least one game in which the player was a paparazzi photographer who had to take “snapshots” of FMV clips to sell to his tabloid. And it was for the Mac, no less.
(I should really try to think up some games that had at least one other game in their theme. :smack: )
Yeah, cause The Sims was such a flop :).
Sim Ant ruled, by the way!
I think serious is the word being used to disqualify the Sim’s.
Dungeon Keeper and Ghostmaster are both strategy games that put you in a role that would usually be considered a villian’s. I’m sure there are other games like this, but I can’t think of any.
There’s the recent ‘Evil Genius’ for one, where you play the part of a criminal mastermind, in the mould of blofeld and his ilk. There’s also the Gangsters series, where you play a Prohibition era Gangster.
Another set of odd games are those with animals you wouldn’t expect as the main characters. For example, we have worms (Earthworm Jim is one, I’ll let you guess the other), Lemmings (I’m sure you can work this one out), or slugs (Steg the Slug).
Games that were supposed to change the world, but didn’t:
Scud: Disposable Assassin
MDK
Primal Rage
Daiktana
Duke Nukem Forever (still pending…) 
Games where you go on a “Quest” for a “King”:
Kings Quest 1
Kings Quest 2
Kings Quest 3
…
Games where the protagonists are a pair of high jumping plumbers in red and green…
Seriously, now.
Games that were huge (or at least notable) in their day but almost nobody remembers today:
Dungeon Master
Shadow of the Beast
Populous
Bard’s Tale
Golden Axe
(Feel free to add more…)
Well, there are the games in Tecmo’s Deception series- which were RPG/strategy/action hybrids, or something to that effect. You’re pretty darn evil- killing children, mothers and anyone else unfortunte enough to enter your castle. Plus it lacks the humor of Dungeon Keeper or Ghostmaster; it’s a rather unsettling game.
Deception III was remarkably non-evil compared to the first two. However, in all of the Deception games, the innocent ones just keep coming after you until they’re dead. Somehow, if someone who’s completely unarmed gets hit upside the head with a gigantic rock, thrown into spikes, and still limps towards you thinking “I can still take her down!”; well, you’re probably doing the gene pool a favor by finishing him off.
More city-destroying monster games:
Photography games:
One more… Night Trap
Animal-based Feng Shui games:
Science Fiction rather than fantasy based RPG’s:
Earthbound
Parasite Eve
Xenosaga
Some Final Fantasy games are what I call “Science Fantasy”
Ramen Western games:
Games changed to different series for US release:
Do “Postal” and “Postal 2” count for anything? What with the “kill anything that moves, even civilians. ESPECIALLY civilians” gameplay.
Drat, I was going to come in and mention Bohnanza, the Bean Farming card game, and Z-G, the collectible card game/action figure miniature game, but I see you’re doing videogames.
What about that japanese mosquito flight simulator?
Games Starring Insects:
Games featuring my username: