Marco Thorek wrote:
> 
> Well, according to Moby it belongs to six genres. 

Two main, four sub.  Sorry if that's not obvious in our presentation; I should
probably mention to Brian that our main genres should be highlighted
differently.

> I thought about a game
> belonging to one genre, like in the good old days.

Then you fall into the gamedex.com category trap, which is a mess.
 
> I remember the German Happy-Computer magazine periodically published
> extra gaming editions and they were categorized by genre: RPG, Action,
> Adventure, Sports, etc. Games that couldn't be classified clearly had
> their own category, "Rest of the world." Elite was in there, as well as
> Psi-5 Trading, Koronis Rift and Alter Ego. Today "Rest of the world"
> woul probably make up most of the magazine.

Exactly, which proves that the single-genre system is flawed by design.  Thank
you for proving my point :-)
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