This group collects the Interactive and Networked Media Landmarks subcategory's members whose own description names them a puzzle, tile-matching, word, rhythm or short-session mobile-casual game, spanning Tetris, Candy Crush Saga, Angry Birds, Wordle and Words with Friends alongside the maze game Pac-Man, the mechanical curiosity Snake, the location-based mobile game Pokemon Go, the puzzle-platform hybrid Portal, and the arcade rhythm game Dance Dance Revolution.
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Era of EmergenceThe casual side of this bucket has no clean single origin in the same source: Pac-Man (1980) is only hedged as it "may be" the first casual game, and Microsoft Solitaire (1990) is credited as the first commercial hit. Browse By
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Puzzle video game, History sectionQuote, Wikipedia: Puzzle video game, History section
In Universal Entertainment's Space Panic, released in arcades in 1980, the player digs holes in platforms to trap creatures.
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