Yer fave genre within genres(e.g. sci-fi, pirates, monkeys, strategy, etc)

Star Wars flight-sim = Tie Fighter
Non-Star Wars space-flight-sim = Wing Commander 2

Pirates action: the 2004 Pirates game
Pirates adventure: Monkey Island 2

City building = Sim City 3
Classical city building = Caeser IV

Turn-based historical wargame = Civ 4
Turn-based historical space race = Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space

Adventure game: Grim Fandango
comic book adaption adventure game: Sam & Max.

You get the idea. Give it a shot!

This is also a thread for fun games in weird genres(like that surgery game from the early 90s where you got to open up a guy's thoracic cavity)