History Main / MinigameGame

** Their arcade game based on the rock band {{Music/Journey}} also follows along the same lines.

* [[VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour]] feature puzzles scattered across the house, solving each unlocks more rooms and a piece of the story.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty''. Like so many other things that Mario has done, it's also the TropeCodifier. Games with their own pages: ''VideoGame/MarioParty1''

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty''. Like so many other things that Mario has done, it's also the TropeCodifier.

* ''{{VideoGame/TRON}}'' by [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally/Midway]] is basically four games that must be played over and over to complete a level.
** [[/index]]Their arcade game based on the rock band {{Music/Journey}} also follows along the same lines.[[index]]

* ''VideoGame/ClubhouseGamesFiftyOneWorldwideClassics'' is a collection of 51 board games, card games, and sports games.

* ''VideoGame/ClubhouseGamesFiftyOneWorldwideClassics'' is a collection of 51 board games, card games, and sports games.

** ''The King Of Chicago'' had a VisualNovel quality to its storyline, interspersed with large-scale shootouts, bombings, one-on-one gunfights, and a map-and-ledger area where you managed your gang. Oh, and a random craps minigame.
** ''[=SDI=]'' put you in the cockpit of the United States' SDI system, in charge of both piloting a space fighter (both to shoot down Soviet craft and repair your satellites) and the satellites' laser systems (to shoot down each wave of Soviet missiles), as well as managing the repairs on everything. And you have to constantly switch between these tasks in the middle of a war. Finally, [[spoiler: in the endgame, you have to fly over to the Russian station to rescue your CapuletCounterpart through a shooting sequence.]]

* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootPurpleRiptosRampage'' and ''VideoGame/SpyroOrangeTheCortexConspiracy'' for the UsefulNotes/GameboyAdvance, which are the VideoGame/CrashBandicoot / Franchise/SpyroTheDragon crossover games.

* Several mid-1980s games by Tim Huntington combined different arcade games. Each individual minigame would have made an OK standalone game [[TechnologyMarchesOn back then]].

** In ''Fire Chief'' you alternatively drive a car with a flasher through the crowded highway or rescue important objects from a burning building. Also featured a semi-comprehensible cutscene.

* [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally/Midway's]] ''{{VideoGame/TRON}}'' is basically four games that must be played over and over to complete a level.
** Their arcade game based on the rock band {{Music/Journey}} also follows along the same lines.

* ''Pictionary'' for the NES, due to the original's [[SlidingScaleOfObjectiveVsSubjectiveGames subjective nature]].

** ''Tenkomori Shooting'' is a {{spinoff}} of ''Point Blank'', as a VerticalScrollingShooter rather than a LightGunGame.

* ''Lazy Jones'' for the C64.

* ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'': The 1972 revival, initially titled ''The New Price is Right'' and still airing to this day, retooled the format to focus more on having contestants play "pricing games" to win prizes, after earning their way on-stage by competitively guessing the price of an item without going over. The original version of the format, circa 1956, placed a larger focus on the bidding aspect.

* ''Series/TheCube''

* ''Series/ElGranJuegoDeLaOca''
* ''Series/DoubleDare1986'' becomes this when a team chooses to take a Physical Challenge instead of answering a question.
* ''Series/FamilyChallenge''
* ''Series/SchlagDenRaab''
* ''Series/HollywoodGameNight'', where two teams of celebrities lead by a non-famous contestant play several games to see which team can make it to the BonusRound.
* ''Series/OneThousandHeartbeats''
* ''Series/TimeMachine'' (1985)
* ''Series/TheCrystalMaze''
* ''[[Series/{{Dont}} Don't]]''
* ''Series/EllensGameOfGames''
* ''Series/RichardOsmansHouseOfGames''

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* ''Pictionary'' for the NES, due to the original's [[SlidingScaleOfObjectiveVsSubjectiveGames subjective nature]].
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty''. Like so many other things that Mario has done, it's also the TropeCodifier.
* ''VideoGame/MiniMixMayhem'' for [[MobilePhoneGame mobile devices.]]
* ''VideoGame/RavingRabbids''
* The ''Lolo'' series. Ostensibly just brain teaser games, they tend to vary widely among logic puzzles, problems with inobvious solutions, and even a little arcade action.
* ''VideoGame/WiiSports'', ''VideoGame/WiiPlay'', ''VideoGame/WiiPlayMotion'', and ''VideoGame/WiiSportsResort''. ''VideoGame/WiiParty'' also has very heavy elements of this trope, especially Board Game Island.
* ''VideoGame/WarioWare''. Bonus points for most of the games lasting precisely five seconds.
** They're so small mini, actually, that they're considered ''micro''games.
* ''Amazing Island'' crosses this with a {{Mons}} game, by allowing you to use as your players monsters you've created.
* Cliff Johnson's puzzle games (''VideoGame/TheFoolsErrand'', ''VideoGame/AtTheCarnival'', ''VideoGame/ThreeInThree'') fall into this genre.

* ''VideoGame/RetroGameChallenge'' is similar to this, but the games themselves are full length games. So it's more like a... Game Game?
* ''VideoGame/BombermanLand''
* ''VideoGame/{{Norrland}}''
* ''VideoGame/BarbieSuperModel''

* ''VideoGame/SonicShuffle''.
** ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings'' uses a board game format for its multiplayer game.
* ''VideoGame/PuzzlePirates'' does this in a massive-multiplayer environment. Some of the puzzles are somewhat similar, with slightly different rules, but some are quite different from the rest (like the Alchemy puzzle and Battle Navigation). New mini-games are introduced periodically for actions that used to be automatic.
* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' consists of dozens and dozens of individual brainteasers tied together with a mystery story.

* ''VideoGame/IncredibleCrisis'' for the [=PS1=].
* ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}''.
* ''Lazy Jones'' for the C64.
* ''Series/AmericanGladiators''.
* The VideoGame/CrashBandicoot / Franchise/SpyroTheDragon crossover games ''Ripto's Rampage'' and ''Cortex Conspiracy'' for the UsefulNotes/GameboyAdvance.
* ''VideoGame/DangerousHighSchoolGirlsInTrouble''
* ''Help Wanted''
* ''Bishi Bashi''

* ''The 3 Stooges''
* ''Ken Uston's Puzzle Panic'' for the Commodore 64.
* ''VideoGame/GanbareNeoPokeKun'' for the Neo Geo Pocket Color features a virtual pet who creates minigames.
* The ''Puzzle & Action'' series (''Tant-R'', ''Ichidant-R'', ''Sand-R'').
* ''Franchise/{{Goosebumps}} [=HorrorLand=]''
* The flash game series ''VideoGame/HoshiSaga''.
* ''VideoGame/Planet404''

* ''Tenkomori Shooting'' is a {{spinoff}} of ''Point Blank'', as a VerticalScrollingShooter rather than a LightGunGame.
* Given a unique twist in ''VideoGame/MarioAdventure'': World 7, "Desert Dares", where each level is just one screen, with a catch, you either have to make a tricky jump, collect all the coins in time, or survive for a certain amount of time.
* Several mid-1980s games by Tim Huntington combined different arcade games. Each individual minigame would have made an OK standalone game [[TechnologyMarchesOn back then]].
** In ''Despatch Rider'' you drive your bike through a maze-like city. At the destination you either catch parcels thrown out of windows, or throw parcels through addressees' doors.
** In ''Fire Chief'' you alternatively drive a car with a flasher through the crowded highway or rescue important objects from a burning building. Also featured a semi-comprehensible cutscene.
* ''VideoGame/NESRemix'' does this with several NES games.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bonkers|Sega}}'' for the Sega Genesis consists of four mini-games with many levels, which Bonkers has to complete in order to capture one of Toontown's four most wanted criminals.

* [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally/Midway's]] ''{{VideoGame/TRON}}'' is basically four games that must be played over and over to complete a level.
** Their arcade game based on the rock band {{Music/Journey}} also follows along the same lines.
* ''VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsLightsCameraPants'' ([=PS2=], Xbox and Gamecube versions) has the players compete in minigames to star in [[ShowWithinAShow a movie]]. Each area/scene has three varied minigames to play in.
* ''Creator/{{Cinemaware}}'' favored this with their "interactive movies." Each game was built around a story (to the extent that the pause feature was often called an "intermission"), and each aspect of gameplay was a separate minigame.
** ''VideoGame/DefenderOfTheCrown'' had a strategic map, battles, and action games for raids, jousting and sieges (where the player controlled a catapult).
** ''The King Of Chicago'' had a VisualNovel quality to its storyline, interspersed with large-scale shootouts, bombings, one-on-one gunfights, and a map-and-ledger area where you managed your gang. Oh, and a random craps minigame.
** ''[=SDI=]'' put you in the cockpit of the United States' SDI system, in charge of both piloting a space fighter (both to shoot down Soviet craft and repair your satellites) and the satellites' laser systems (to shoot down each wave of Soviet missiles), as well as managing the repairs on everything. And you have to constantly switch between these tasks in the middle of a war. Finally, [[spoiler: in the endgame, you have to fly over to the Russian station to rescue your CapuletCounterpart through a shooting sequence.]]
* ''VideoGame/CookServeDelicious''

* ''VideoGame/ShmupsSkillTest'', as part of the premise of testing your ShootEmUp abilities.

* ''VideoGame/CookingMama''
* ''VideoGame/GeekwadSeries'': Both ''Wacky Funsters: A Geekwad's Guide To Gaming'' and ''The Geekwad: Games Of The Galaxy'' mostly consist of playing five minigames.
* ''VideoGame/AdventureFunPak''
* ''VideoGame/BigFunInFurbyland''
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryMagnaCumLaude'', which takes the rough premise of the old ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' games (loser tries to get laid) and swaps out the PointAndClickGame elements in favor of minigames for conversation, dancing, playing quarters, streaking, and other WackyFratboyHijinx.
* ''{{VideoGame/Cars}}'' for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS.
* ''VideoGame/NintendoLabo'''s Variety Kit offers a set of minigames to play with the included Toy-Con patterns.
* Creator/{{Sierra}} created the {{Edutainment}} game ''[[VideoGame/DrBrain The Castle of Dr. Brain]]'' in the early 90's which featured a long sequence of puzzles, each meant to test a different mental skill. It featured, among many others, a MagicSquarePuzzle, a jigsaw puzzle, a maze, and so on. The original game was followed by several sequels.
* All of the games in the ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'' series.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Coraline}}'' video game is a rare blend of an ActionAdventure game involving a ''lot'' of minigames.
* ''VideoGame/RugratsRoyalRansom'': Justified as the game takes place in a playground-like machine built by Stu.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' for the Sega Genesis.

* ''{{Pictionary}}'' for the NES, due to the original's [[SlidingScaleOfObjectiveVsSubjectiveGames subjective nature]]

* ''VideoGame/RetroGameChallenge'' is similar to this, but the games themselves are full length games. So it's more like a....Game Game?

* ''VideoGame/IncredibleCrisis'' for the PS One.

* ''HelpWanted''
* ''VideoGame/BishiBashi''

* ''Ken Uston's Puzzle Panic'' for the Commodore 64
* ''Ganbare Neo Poke-kun'' for the Neo Geo Pocket Color features a virtual pet who creates minigames
* The ''Puzzle & Action'' series (''Tant-R'', ''Ichidant-R'', ''Sand-R'')

** ''VideoGame/TheKingOfChicago'' had a VisualNovel quality to its storyline, interspersed with large-scale shootouts, bombings, one-on-one gunfights, and a map-and-ledger area where you managed your gang. Oh, and a random craps minigame.
** ''VideoGame/{{SDI}}'' put you in the cockpit of the United States' SDI system, in charge of both piloting a space fighter (both to shoot down Soviet craft and repair your satellites) and the satellites' laser systems (to shoot down each wave of Soviet missiles), as well as managing the repairs on everything. And you have to constantly switch between these tasks in the middle of a war. Finally, [[spoiler: in the endgame, you have to fly over to the Russian station to rescue your CapuletCounterpart through a shooting sequence.]]

* ''VideoGame/GanbareNeoPokeKun''

* ''TokyoFriendParkII''

* ''[[Series/Dont Don't]]''

* ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' (1956, although the more minigame-focused version came in 1972)