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Game » consists of 0 releases. Released May 01, 1983
Sure, these days have almost every game sporting the newfangled 3D, but way back when, everyone had to live with plain old 2D. 2D, or two dimensions, limit the game to scrolling backgrounds, but some games even now make use of this basic concept.
Cartoon characters are personas from cartoons, which are animated moving sequences that are usually drawn but can be computer animated and can come from television, movies, anime or even the web. They can be humans, animals, or even things usually not thought of as living.
A concept in games with multiple characters, a screen with pictures of all playable characters with the possibility of stat listings.
The roach is a notoriously indestructible insect found in many societies. It is also found in video games.
Hey, why are we fighting? Let's sit down and talk this thing out.
Durability refers to the condition of the currently equipped weapons and armor, among other things. Overusing the said item without repair generally results in it breaking or otherwise becoming non-functional. Many games with role-playing elements incorporate this feature.
Grid-based movement limits players, and other entities in a game, to moving through the game world in increments of whole squares on a grid. It has been a common staple of turn-based strategy games since the earliest board games of antiquity. It was also used by early RPGs.
A six sided geometrical shape sometimes used in strategy, puzzle, and board games.
A traditional household role in which the wife spends her days taking care of the house and children while the husband is at work.
The insects have stolen our crops! Are you a bad enough dude to commit insecticide?
A game where you eventually receive a map of an area. Like in Metroid Prime you have map download stations to get a map outline of the area. This is the same concept in the exploring Castlevania games.
Any person that is in an Army.
Those that attend a school seeking knowledge. In many video games (especially RPGs) students, most commonly high school students, are the protagonist of the game.
A game perspective that views the action from above, commonly at a fixed position and/or rotation.
A type of gameplay where the player chooses and builds autonomous towers to protect a location from waves of enemies.
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.
Turn-based games divide game actions into distinct parts, called turns. This gives the player time to strategically choose actions as the battle or events unfold.
War is a series of organized conflicts carried on by force of arms between two or more nations or groups. Whether it never changes or has already changed is up for debate.
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