Talk:Puzzle video game

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the page says that the rubik's cube predates video games. according to the other relevant wikipedia pages, the rubik's cube was released in the west in 1980. the arcade version of spacewar (one of the first arcade games) was released in 1972. i would say that the popularity of the rubik's cube was, at earliest, concurrent with the peak of the arcade game.

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[edit] Move to puzzle game

This is more consistent with other genres (action game, adventure game) and puzzle game redirects here. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 18:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I think, conversely, the other articles should be moved to "Computer Action Game" and "Computer Adventure Game" respectively. Just as there are puzzle games that do not take place on the computer, so are there action and adventure games. H7dders 12:31, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 19:59, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Regardless. My arguement still stands. H7dders 08:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Background

Regardless of whether the video game was around at the same time as the Rubik's cube, the jigsaw predates Edison by almost a century. The phrase "as we know them today" is therefore redundant and does not contribute to the flow of the article. It would be better to remove the Rubik's cube reference. Better still to remove the jigsaw reference and rewrite this section so that it actually says something about computer puzzle games. H7dders 12:30, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Puzzle VS Action Puzzle

Tetris and Lumines and not pure puzzle games. They are Action Puzzle, as they combine elements or arcade and puzzle games. We need to fix this. Netrat_msk (talk) 14:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New move request

This article has been renamed from Video puzzle game to Puzzle video game as the result of a move request.

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was - unopposed move. Randomran (talk) 16:40, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I understand the why this isn't just "puzzle game". After all, there are puzzle games that aren't on computers or consoles. But having the "video" at the beginning is just inconsistent with the other articles, and unintuitive. I recommend a move to "Puzzle video game". Randomran (talk) 07:16, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Strong support Currently sounds like some dusty old fad involving VHS cassettes. The emphasis is on these games being puzzles, when it should be on these being video games. Someoneanother 08:37, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong support. "Puzzle video game" sounds much better. Netrat_msk (talk) 08:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Interesting. "Video puzzle game" gets 11300 ghits, "Puzzle video game" gets 17000. So support, as it seems to be the more popular term. Marasmusine (talk) 08:58, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.