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A circumstance in video games where the player will defeat large numbers of enemies without any assistance from AI or other players. This may occur for part of a game or the entirety of it.
Multipliers award players for playing well continuously. Racking up multipliers is crucial in any point based game in which they are featured.
Survival is a concept that signifies that the player's life is constantly in jeopardy.
The End of Days. A concept often used in video games. In most games: the protagonists are working to prevent it, although sometimes the goal is to actually bring about Armageddon yourself.
Games that encourage the beating of small and/or defenseless creatures.
Games that have you going into a computer generated virtual universe.
A new gametype in Halo: Reach. the objective of the game is for the attacking elites to breach security and steal a precious data core while the spartans try to shut them out.
Character Creation refers to characters created by players themselves, rather than developers.
A series of arcade system boards from Taito that uses commodity PC hardware. It is commonly used for third-party Japanese arcade games and pachinko machines since 2004.
A ring out occurs when a character leaves a stage (mostly due to falling off stage because of being forced by opponent or bad timing) and automatically loses round/match. This is a common concept in fighting games.
Someone who investigates unsolved crimes and other mysterious happenings, either for a living, as a hobby, or simply by chance.
For games that have either wholly or partly Japanese title names.
An imaginary boundary in the game world that limits player movement to a specific area. They are often criticized as a poor component of level design, when an actual wall or other visible boundary could have been used to delineate a game's playing field.
Combat between ships dates back to antiquity, and in the 20th century expanded to include the use of aircraft.
Games whose titles are meant to be taken more than one way.
Grinding is the ability to slide along the edge of an object, usually a rail of some kind, with the trucks of a skateboard, the sole of a rollerblade, or the pegs of a BMX bike, in addition to grind boots or simply the character's feet.
Joke characters are characters in video games that provide humor, and are often parodies of characters from other games, or parodies of famous celebrities.
Traditional form of Japanese theater, normally characterized by makeup and long, colorful wigs.
A style of Japanese swordfighting where the user holds his or her sword (usually a katana) in the sheath until it is ready for an attack; they pull the sword, attack, and return it to the sheath in continuous, swift motions.
In traditional Japanese theater, the kuroko are stagehands dressed in full-black garb to imply that they were "invisible" on stage. It is widely believed that they influenced the archetypal ninja outfit.
A Puppet Fighter is a character type from Fighting Games who has the ability to actively control two separate persons or entities simultaneously.
Pandas are black and white bears that live mainly in China and zoos. It is an endangered species.
A grid that is organized for the start of the race in rows of 2, 3 or more. Very useful for standing starts in various racing titles.
In video games Plasma is often used as a core ingredient in weapons due to its high temperature. Due to the amount of damage it can inflict it is effective against any type of target, whether organic or metallic
An optional boss is a boss whose defeat is not essential to the plot and can be avoided. In some cases, they are stronger than the game's final boss.
Be it an “unopenable” door, a sprawling fence, a sudden outcropping of land, an ocean, a cliff (often a deadly ocean/cliff combo,) a broken-down car, an “invisible wall,” or large trees; barriers in video games manifest themselves in a variety of forms (physical and otherwise).
Some creatures have three or more eyes and tend to be monstrous and frightening.
A catch-all term for the collection of gods, monsters, and spirits that manifest in the Megami Tensei series. The English usage is derived from the Greek word "daimon," which was used to describe ethereal beings both benevolent and malevolent.
An interesting revelation. While some games will only accept a START button press, many other games aren't as strict.
The Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their six Super Bowl victories are the most for any NFL franchise.
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