Mario 64'' for Nintendo 64 suffers from no such problem and comes as close to a pure-play game as there is. The goal of the game is simple. As Dr. Mario tosses colored pills into a medicine bottle, players try to line up the colors next to corresponding viruses. Get enough of the same-colored pills in a row or a column and they will zap adjacent bugs. Put them in the wrong place, and they just sit there clogging up the bottle.
Bottle fills before the viruses die, players lose.
The tiny step it takes up in complexity makes it less the sort of game that any moron can pick up in 30 seconds. It takes about a minute. Mario 64'' holds its own. Players can send piles of junk into their friends' bottles as they clear their own, which adds a level of skill and strategy. Visually, the game is as simple as its concept.