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Game » consists of 2 releases. Released 1990
An online retro gaming streaming platform.
Bosses are enemies that fight you at the end of a level or at a significant point in the story.
A boss fight is a culminating challenge that pits the player against one or more enemies representing a greater threat and/or difficulty than those previously faced. These scenarios typically feature unique antagonists.
Dwarves are a short, stout race that appear in any number of fantasy games and stories. They are almost always depicted as short with bushy beards similar to vikings. They can also be identified by their love for ale and gold. Other common trends for Fantasy Dwarves include being proud warriors, favoring axes as their weapon of choice, and being gruff sticklers for tradition and honor.
When the main character at some point has to escape from a confined area, be it a dungeon, a prison cell, or a penal colony.
In games, fire can be an obstacle, a tool, a weapon, or a solution. Just don't play with it...unless you really want to.
A characteristic many game characters share when their eyes emit a colored light instead of what a regular eye should look like. This is often evident in robots and characters possessed by some evil force.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
Health is a value that gauges how much damage players can take in a game before they die or pass out. Also known as life in some games. Health is usually represented by a bar or a percentage instead of an exact amount. Found in most non sport games
A gameplay mechanic allowing players to store their items and freely carry them around.
A parallel projection technique used in 2D sprite-based games to fake the appearance of 3D depth.
Take an item and throw it at the enemy.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
The concept of affecting the universe through supernatural methods, breaking the fundamental laws of science.
Necromancers are spell casters who specializes in conjuring and controlling the undead.
Pixel art refers to digital images composed of visible pixels, drawn with individual pixel-level intent and precision.
A sound effect that plays once the player has gained a level, solved a puzzle or reached a milestone within the game.
A playable class in many roleplaying games. Rogues are also sometimes known as Thieves. The class in almost all these games center around their stealth capabilities.
Games whose titles consist of a single word.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
Slimes are a common "starter enemy" in RPGs, and serve as a mascot for the Dragon Quest series.
An eight legged arachnid. Some make webs to catch prey and some are poisonous. None have made a web grand enough to be called a parlor, though.
Throwing weapons include knives, shurikens, axes, darts or even explosives such as grenades and molotov cocktails.
A mechanical system designed to capture or cause harm. Either the player can set traps for their enemies or others set them for the player.
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