Concepts

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Indianapolis Colts

The Indianapolis Colts are an NFL team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. They currently belong to the AFC South division. They were founded in 1953 as the Baltimore Colts, and moved to Indianapolis in 1984.

Appears in 5 games

First appeared in Capcom's MVP Football
Future Internet

A future Internet that can do anything from spanning across the universe to being accessed by one's mind. Future internet is anything that can exceed current internet capabilities.

Appears in 11 games

First appeared in Front Mission 3
Dynamic Difficulty

A game mechanic that adjusts the difficulty of the game automatically during gameplay as a result of the player's performance.

Appears in 17 games

First appeared in Gradius II
Army of Hades

A power in the God of War series.

Appears in 3 games

First appeared in God of War
Soul of Hades

An elemental power in God of War: Ascension.

Appears in 1 games

First appeared in God of War: Ascension
Tracker Music

Tracker music, or module/MOD music is a digital music format that was popularized in the late 80's and became the de facto standard for video game music on the Amiga, as well as in the Demoscene, and is still in wide use today.

Appears in 52 games

First appeared in Stellar 7
Uplay

Uplay is a service created by Ubisoft to provide an experience similar to the trophies/achievements offered by Sony and Microsoft respectively.

Appears in 39 games

First appeared in Assassin's Creed II
Late Title Card

When the title of the game does not appear immediately at the beginning of the game, but rather after a first mission or prologue.

Appears in 211 games

First appeared in Final Fantasy
Off-TV Play

Off-TV Play is a concept exclusive to games for the Nintendo Wii U, which lets you play console games on the Wii U gamePad screen independent of the TV.

Appears in 77 games

First appeared in Pac-Man
Initial Install

As games become bigger and more technically advanced, games increasingly require users to go through a small initial install before playing.

Appears in 23 games

First appeared in flOw
Weapon Combo

Weapons with multiple functions or combinations of different weapons that can be used at the same time.

Appears in 30 games

First appeared in Final Fantasy VIII
Anti-Hero

A protagonist that lacks typical heroic qualities.

Appears in 208 games

First appeared in Lupin III
Crossover

A crossover occurs when a character from one franchise makes a special appearance in a game from an unrelated franchise. Some games are specifically designed to be crossovers that bring together characters from two or more franchises.

Appears in 229 games

First appeared in Battle Soccer
Games on Which Movies are Based

The relationship between Hollywood and the Video Game Industry is an uncomfortable one at best. As these two different forms of entertainment media have produced cooperative projects that have varied wildly in their individual receptions. This page is dedicated to the films that are based on popular video games.

Appears in 104 games

First appeared in Pac-Man
Counter System

The ability to counter a move.

Appears in 78 games

First appeared in Super Double Dragon
Multi-Tier Combat

A fighting area that possess multiple locations, which can be gained by one player striking the other at specific locations with a powerful move. One character proceeds to the next arena unwillingly, and taking damage. The other player follows the first player and does not take damage. Fighting then resumes until the match ends, or perhaps until the next transition into yet another area.

Appears in 27 games

First appeared in Altered Beast
Stereoscopic 3D

3D Stereoscopy is the use of two images generated from slightly different angles in order to create a 3D effect. This usually requires the use of 3D glasses to separate the left/right image for each eye.

Appears in 176 games

First appeared in Space Tactics
2.5D

Games which feature 3D polygonal graphics, but typically restrict gameplay and camera control to a 2D plane. Alternatively, it can also refer to earlier games that attempted to simulate three-dimensional graphics without the use of 3D polygons.

Appears in 333 games

First appeared in Interceptor
Ray Casting

An advanced form of 2.5D sprite-scaling, ray casting is a fundamental method for rendering simple 3D entities on a 2D coordinate plane. Objects within the coordinate plane are given specific height and width dimensions and are even mapped with a 2D texture image.

Appears in 36 games

First appeared in Road Rash
Sprite Scaling

Whether it's Super Scaler, Mode 7, or Ray Casting, growing and shrinking sprites is a concept often used in sprite-based games. It was a popular technique used to create a 2.5D effect during the 16-bit era.

Appears in 132 games

First appeared in Interceptor
Games on which Anime are Based

These games were popular enough to warrant an anime, whether it was a full television series, an OVA (original video animation), or a feature-length movie.

Appears in 181 games

First appeared in The Tower of Druaga
Bomb Defusal Mode

A mode in which one team plants a bomb at a designated location and the other tries to defuse it. Traditionally this is a no-respawn mode.

Appears in 13 games

First appeared in Half-Life: Counter-Strike
Jackals

One of the alien speicies that comprises the Covenant of the Halo series; known mostly for use their use energy shields and long range weaponry in battle.

Appears in 9 games

First appeared in Halo: Combat Evolved
The Covenant

An alien alliance consisting of several unique species that serve as the enemy in the Halo franchise.

Appears in 8 games

First appeared in Halo: Combat Evolved
Reclaimer

A species that is chosen the inheritor of the Forerunners.

Appears in 6 games

First appeared in Halo: Combat Evolved
Evil Monk

Evil Monks are mainly recurring henchmen of evil in the original Painkiller game. Evil Monks also appear in many other games, especially those with a horror theme. Evil monks are often heard ominously chanting, usually in a foreign language.

Appears in 20 games

First appeared in Barbarian II
Roguelike

Roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing games characterized by the exploration of randomly-generated dungeons and permanent death. These characteristics were featured in the classic computer game Rogue, hence the term "Roguelike."

Appears in 102 games

First appeared in Rogue
Destructible Clothing

The wear and tear of a character's outfit as he/she receives damage. It can be used to titillate and excite. Most often, this mechanic is found in fighting games.

Appears in 37 games

First appeared in Ghosts 'N Goblins
Running Towards The Screen

These are scripted sequences in a game where the player is running toward the screen, sometimes while being chased.

Appears in 45 games

First appeared in The Lion King
Abstergo Industries

Abstergo Industries is a multinational pharmaceutical corporation worth billions of dollars. Secretly, they are the modern public face of the conspiracy started hundreds of years ago by the Knights Templar, and seek to enslave all of humanity.

Appears in 5 games

First appeared in Assassin's Creed
Player Owned Houses

In some games, total immersion is helped along by allowing players to purchase and customize their own housing.

Appears in 106 games

First appeared in The Money Game
Digitized Sprites

Digitized sprites, popularized in the early 90s, were a form of graphics that used footage of real actors that were then made digital and put into the game.

Appears in 74 games

First appeared in Journey
Degraded Boss

A boss character in a game which decides to show up again later... only as a regular enemy instead.

Appears in 31 games

First appeared in Dragon Warrior
eSports

eSports is the rising phenomenon of competitive gaming backed by professional content delivery and solid corporate sponsorships.

Appears in 31 games

First appeared in Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Abstract Art Style

Games that are very graphically abstract, and don't strive to be realistic.

Appears in 100 games

First appeared in Tempest
Megaera's Parasites

Enemy type in God of War: Ascension.

Appears in 1 games

First appeared in God of War: Ascension
Episodic Content

Content released frequently, every release contains a small portion of a whole story.

Appears in 134 games

First appeared in Planet Mephius
Color Separation

A visual effect where color channels are deliberately misaligned.

Appears in 27 games

First appeared in 3-D WorldRunner
Real Money Transaction

RMT's are the concept of spending real money, for items within a game, common to the free to play market

Appears in 178 games

First appeared in Furcadia
Operation Rainfall

A grassroots movement organized in 2011 to campaign for the North American release of three Wii titles thought to remain as Japanese/European exclusives.

Appears in 3 games

First appeared in Xenoblade Chronicles
Boss Killing His Henchmen

It's when a boss kills his own henchmen to let you know that he means business.

Appears in 31 games

First appeared in Streets of Rage
Ghost Racer

A translucent "ghost" representation of a prior performance in a racing game.

Appears in 45 games

First appeared in F-Zero
Dullahan

A headless horseman of Irish folklore. It is said to carry its own severed head, bearing a mischievous grin that reaches from one side of the face to the other.

Appears in 55 games

First appeared in Digital Devil Monogatari: Megami Tensei
Cancelled Episodic Game Series

Episodic games that were left incomplete due to the project being halted or cancelled before the final episode could be released.

Appears in 17 games

First appeared in Rap Jam: Volume One

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