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A Common mode in a lot of driving game's where players race from point A to Point B against a either a clock or other drivers
Get in the car and turn the stereo up loud. We're goin' on a road trip.
Primitive community based around common ancestry or interests.
Shaman are mediums between the mortal and spiritual realms. In games, they are often priests with the ability to heal via magic and crafted potions.
Non-game software is an application that is not designed as a game, but which runs on a gaming-focused system. Examples include films or television shows on cartridge or disc, calculators, novels, Bibles, et cetera.
Those who work for the government in the public sector.
Planet destruction sometimes a gameplay mechanic, sometimes a plot point. Should cover pending as well as actual destruction.
Player characters or enemies that can be abruptly awoken, often aggressively.
Nightmares are foul horses from the netherworld that terrorize people in their dreams. Nightmares as creatures derrive from Germanic folklore (mare=spirit) and have since become popularized by the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop game (mare=female horse).
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.
The 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on May 10-12.
Atari 2600 games which run on Starpath's Supercharger peripheral.
Radioactive particles in the air released by a nuclear explosion.
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.
'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.
A major martial art style in the Fist of the North Star Series, it has reputation as an evil martial art.
Games featured in itch.io's unprecendentedly massive bundle with 100% of the proceeds going to the NAACP and bail funds for Black Lives Matter protesters.
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.
A squad is a group of military personnel who work together as a group. Popular in both single-player and multiplayer games, the other players within the squad can be either AI or other people.
An action that is sensitive to context. Like going up to an object and pushing a button, which would normally perform a different action, to interact with it.
Often a timed sequence where players must escape a building, spaceship, planet, etc... before it explodes.
An advanced version of the standard Red Arremer enemy.
A yōkai from Japanese folklore. It's a weasel with sharp sickles on its appendages (sometimes just front legs and tail) and thought to cause windstorms.
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