[ungzd]

NES had only two types of games: either you jump on top of enemies or you constantly move right and kick them. Actually there were only two games but with different sprite images. But even that was wonderful in 1982, because it happened on your TV, like movie, but controllable by you! And they're trying to sell the same 'magic VCR where you can control retarded boy jumping on mushrooms' in 2016. Except on phone handsets instead of TV sets. Maybe someone will be heavily impressed that instead of dialing and talking you control virtual italian plumber right on your telephone!

[zerohm]

Off the top of my head I can think of many other 'types' of NES games that break the side scroll paradigm. For example:

Top down action RPG (Zelda)

Decision based RPG (Dragon Warrior)

Picture games (Anticipation)

Game show games (Family Fued)

Sports / Racing games (Punch Out, Rad Racer)

ETC.

[Ertai]

You really need to research more about Nintendo...