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Vultures are large scavenging birds. They are not highly regarded by humans.
Planet destruction sometimes a gameplay mechanic, sometimes a plot point. Should cover pending as well as actual destruction.
Broken English is English with improper spelling, grammar, or syntax, and is most commonly found within older video games as a result of poor English localization.
Henchmen are the loyal grunts caught in between the player and the main antagonist. Without them every game would be nothing more than a boss battle.
The ability of something to go through a solid object without affecting it or if a solid object is thrown at it, it will pass through. Many ghosts can phase. Phasing can also refer to going through phases in an MMO giving the effect that you're actually doing something.
A staircase sequence consists of the player ascending or descending a stairwell for an extended period of time, perhaps a minute or more. These are often presented to create a vertical box of movement, with limited mobility to avoid hazards.
Spectral scourges and festering phantasms beware, these heroes aim to clear out the harmful haunts of our humble homes.
Some game characters just cannot swim. This usually means automatic death as soon as they hit the water.
Greatest hits is a general term for re-releases of games which have sold a certain number of copies, as part of a program managed by the console manufacturer.
The 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on May 10-12.
Some games allow people to swim. Many, however, have water that hurts or kills the player when entered.
Games devoid of or mostly without music, including games with title screen music, but with little to no gameplay music.
Atari 2600 games which run on Starpath's Supercharger peripheral.
Poker is a card game that uses the traditional 52 playing card deck. It is considered a "mind sport" that combines both luck & skill, as players try to use betting mechanics to outwit their opponents and get the best combination of cards.
A variant on regular poker in which instead of losing chips players lose clothing items.
A red herring is a plot device used to mislead or distract someone from what's really going on in the story. It could be a false clue or over-emphasis of another character. Red herrings can add a surprise or make a challenge tougher.
If not certain demands or conditions are met, demanding workers/citizens may revolt, demonstrate, switch sides, saboteur or stop working altogether. Does mostly occur in real-time strategy games and business simulators.
The Great War is the name given to the nuclear war that devastated the planet in the Fallout universe.
A master of ceremonies who performs religious duties. A common character class in RPGs.
Many games allow you to add characters to your playable group upon fulfilling certain conditions. This is a central mechanic of many RPG franchises, including Fire Emblem and Suikoden. These can be NPCs or even enemy characters that the player persuades to join their cause, through sidequests or dialogue options.
Women of a religious order who commit themselves to a life style dedicated to their respective gods.
'Shhh!'
The Servants of the Mushroom Cloud are a religious organization that worships the nuclear holocaust and nuclear energy.
The Desert Rangers are a faction that is dedicated to helping various people and communities survive the horror of nuclear post-apocalypse.
Sometimes there are robotic characters that are programmed to think they are humans or have forgotten they are robots. Other times robots are meant to blend in with humans while knowing that they are robots. Either way they are eventually revealed to be robots as a dramatic plot twist.
Anarchism is the rejection of all government authority.
An on-rails game behaves much like a train: while sometimes the player can choose which path is taken, they cannot deviate from it. Sometimes on-rails games even go so far as to decide when the player moves.
A shooter in which the player movement is restricted so they can only follow a linear, predetermined path. This style of game is considered very "arcadey" and is usually accompanied by a lightgun.
Whether it's Super Scaler or Mode 7, growing and shrinking sprites/textures is a concept often used in sprite-based games. It was a popular technique used to create three-dimensional games with sprites, mostly during the 16-bit to early 32-bit eras. Sprite-scaling was an early form of 3D texture-mapping.
Sega VCO Object, also known as Sega Z80-3D system, was an arcade system board released by Sega in 1981. It was the first system specifically designed for pseudo-3D sprite-scaling graphics. In 1982, it was also the first system to support active-shutter stereoscopic 3D.
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