An action adventure game can be defined as a game with a mix of elements from an action game and an adventure game, especially crucial elements like puzzles. Action-adventures require many of the same physical skills as

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Although action-adventure games are diverse and difficult to classify, there are some distinct subgenres. Popular subgenres include:

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Action-adventure games are faster paced than pure adventure games, and include physical as well as conceptual challenges where the story is enacted

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• Action Games are for full-screen and web site of all platforms

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Brett Weiss cites Atari's Superman (1979) as an action-adventure game, with Retro Gamer crediting it as the "first to utilize multiple screens as playing area". Mark J.P. Wolf credits

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