Music video game

Music games are a genre of computer and video games in which the music is a key element of the game play.

Often, these are to rhythm games where the player must make to the rhythm of pre- played music at the right moment certain inputs, for example, press a specific key on the keyboard or singing into a microphone. If the input is a dance mat, one also speaks of a dance game. The genre of music games overlaps strongly with the action games, but there are also overlapping with other genres. Some games are reminiscent of the toy Senso. Sometimes, it is also certain similarities with audio playing discover, however, have music games always a most strong visual component.

Emergent games of the genre include Audiosurf, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, PaRappa the Rapper, Dance Dance Revolution, Samba de Amigo, Singstar, Beatmania, Rez and Donkey Konga.