The Best Non-Games

[frybread]

With two big non-games coming up, Wii Music and LBP, I thought it would be nice to have a non-game thread.

Wikipedia defines non-game as,

The main difference between non-games and traditional video games is the apparent lack of goals, objectives and challenges. This allows the player a greater degree of self-expression through freeform play, since he can set up his own goals to achieve.

 

Here are my favorites,

1. Electroplankton  (ds)

2. Mario Paint  (snes)

3. Sim City (the whole series, PC)

4. Microsoft Flight Simulator (whole series, PC)

5. Harvest Moon series (various)

 

Other people's:

• Little Big Planet (beta)
• Animal Crossing
• The Sims 
• Caesar (series, clones)
• Tycoon games (Transport, Rollercoaster, etc.)
• Home (beta)
• Endless Ocean

 Can anyone think of any other good ones?

 

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Non-game vs game

I wanted to list GTA, but I don't know.  Do you guys think GTA 1 is a game?  Neither I nor anyone I know had ever played to gain points and I think the uniqueness was that it was a sandbox, not a point grinder. Everyone makes their own objectives.

And what about Wii Fit?  I didn't want to list it, since a certain weight is the goal and you'reconstantly being scored, so it seems too much of a game to be a non-game.