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I associate splinter cell with stealth more than mgs actually, mgs is... too mgs

seconding zork for text adventure

leaning love plus for dating sims as it feels like the key inspiration for most since then
... clannad for visual novels in general? anything ryukishi's in an odd place, zero escape and danganronpa and ace attorney are pretty much their own entities and... well, when i think of fate now i think gacha

speaking of probably fgo for gacha? possibly granblue. some probably think of genshin too though i definitely don't associate its core gameplay enough to associate it.

actually puyo puyo (or maybe columns) for the puzzle subgenre it's in along with tetris. i feel like i've seen a lot more games take inspiration from it than any other game like it
puzzle bobble also comes to mind and arguably warrants its own classification as a title to associate with its own genre
and arkanoid for breakout clones (unsafe as it is to say that and not breakout it's definitely also the most representative of its archetype. i guess peggle fits in here too)

fighting is pretty hard given the spread of different series these days. guilty gear feels like it's more or less in the middle of all of them now, between all the anime and non-anime fighters, so i guess guilty gear strive's the current answer? sf2 for more retro fighters but it's not what comes to mind to me when i think of fighting games nowadays and i don't think the answer is necessarily any newer sf either

simulation... i don't know. sims 2 for... well, sims-esque simulation games is probably still safe
for city builders, cities skylines is probably the easiest to picture these days compared to any individual simcity game though this may just be me.
this is definitely a controversial take but i'm leaning rollercoaster tycoon 3 for non-city builder tycoon games, since the more recent ports have probably placed it in a more relevant position than its predecessors or contemporary, planet coaster. plus planet coaster definitely has more of its dna than prior ones.
there probably should be one for shop-management sims too given how many of them are but no titles come to mind besides recettear (and it's not recettear lol)
i can't not associate vehicle simulation games with gran turismo (specifically 4 for me since it's the one i played the most). yes forza exists now but still. alternate mentions to assetto corsa and on a different note, flight simulator x.
ace combat 7 or maybe still one of the ps2 ones for arcadey planes
still burnout 3 for arcadey cars
mario kart wii for kart racers even if my favourite is still bomberman kart (8 may be way more successful than it now but the gravity gimmicks separate it too much from any other ones imo, answer could've maybe been sonic transformed but that game kind of fell too far out of relevance)

wrpgs goes to witcher 3 these days and jrpgs... hm.
i feel like the "image" of jrpgs to me is snes-era games with dragon quest-type first-person battle systems and usually fantasy themes, as has been reinforced even in popular indie offerings like undertale (sure deltarune generally contradicts this but still), and partially with others like omori, lisa, jimmy etc., but i don't think it'd necessarily be a dragon quest game (as it generally didn't stick out with its visual style compared to dedicated first-person dungeon crawlers up until they were pretty much at the point of going 3d and its particular battle windows until then were kind of too much a dq-only thing) or non-persona smt (likewise, and more recent examples often feel too close to dungeon crawlers). also it may have been the cause of most of the indie titles further up but the mother series is kind of just too thematically offbeat to fit (and its angled overworld perspective is still a little too out there imo). there are of course plenty of others, like the far east of eden, tenshi no uta, early saga games/final fantasy legend or even the numbered phantasy star titles but there's no way the answer is any of them... so. clearly the answer can only be one thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iPgH_rgVjY
just kidding i'm conceding it's probably something else and more popular like ff7/ffx or dq8/11 or persona 5 or smtv. or a pokemon generation. arguably even stuff like atelier's valid these days given the state of the jrpg scene >_>