User:Umbire the Phantom/Randomizer

Imagine if you will Alice and Bob, each sitting down for a round of gaming. Alice's game of choice is Pokémon, but instead of your usual Com Mons, she immediately hits upon Olympus Mons as early as the first route - and she can catch them more easily, too! Yes, you could cheat up encounters like that if you wanted to - but what if the game shuffled its Random Encounters in such a way that you could come across one by luck? Or what if Bob were replaying a Final Fantasy game (pick any game in the series), but instead of chests containing your standard basic potions and starter armor, you instead happen across mid-game armor or even an Infinity+1 Sword?

All that and far more is possible through the magic of the Randomizer - a type of Game Mod that randomizes and shuffles certain aspects of gameplay such as item and enemy locations. Randomizers are generally a form of Self-Imposed Challenge, though it somewhat straddles the line - by its very definition, the resulting challenge and changes in difficulty compared to the default game can be wildly variable. Game randomizers can also supplement other mods and/or Self-Imposed Challenges as well.

Action Adventure

 * The Legend of Zelda series:
 * The Legend of Zelda
 * The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Role-Playing Game

 * Most of the Pokémon video games have a randomizer:
 * Pokémon Red and Blue
 * Pokémon Gold and Silver as well as Pokémon Crystal