In Fantastic Dizzy, the player has to complete a sliding puzzle to get an extra life. Fantastic Dizzy ( The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy outside Europe & Australia) is a 1991 Video game developed

A minigame (also spelled mini-game or mini game), sometimes called a subgame, is a short video game often contained within another game. A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The minigame is always smaller or more simplistic than the game in which it is contained. Minigames are sometimes also offered separately for free to promote the main game.

Minigames occur either as gameplay features or as Easter eggs. For the television channel see GamePlay HD. Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems especially formal A virtual Easter egg is an intentional Hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, Book In the latter case, they are often called "secret games. " In the former case, the successful completion of such minigames may or may not be required in order to finish the encompassing game.

Minigame compilations

Some games, such as the WarioWare series or some Cinemaware titles like Defender of the Crown, are made up of many minigames strung together into one video game. Cinemaware was a computer game developer and publisher that released several popular titles in the 1980s based on various movie themes Defender of the Crown is a strategy Computer game designed by Kellyn Beck Some similar games, such as the Mario Party series, are considered party games, games specifically developed for multiplayer among friends. Mario Party is a party (multi-player game featuring Mario series characters in which four human- or computer-controlled See also [[Game classification]] Video games are categorized into Genres based on their Gameplay interaction A multiplayer video game is one which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time In party games, usually the minigames involve performing an activity faster or collecting more of a specified item than other players to win.

See also

• Casual game
• Casual gamer
• Party game