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Game » consists of 7 releases. Released Jun 25, 1993
Some remakes allow you to switch back to how the game originally looked.
A joke or reference that appears throughout a series of games.
Not all scientists are mad and/or hell-bent on dominating worlds. Some are just your ordinary egghead with a coat.
Sometimes, things are just meant to happen the way they do. Usually triggered by a timer, or by the player crossing a checkpoint.
SCUMM is an acronym for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion. SCUMM is scripting language developed internally at LucasArts to help streamline the creation of graphic adventure games.
A sequel (also called a follow-up) is a game that carries forward the gameplay concepts, and often the story, of a previous game to which it is officially linked.
Shakey Cam is the use of shaking the camera in a game in order to give the feeling of chaos, disorientation or realism. It is usually used in action games when moving at fast speeds or when a large impact or explosion occurs.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
Newspapers that rapidly twirl towards the screen, eventually slowing down and delivering narrative-related information.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
Steam Cloud is a built in feature in some Steam games, it synchronizes game saves, settings and other data to the internet for access from any computer that has Steam installed.
Steam Trading Cards is a built in feature in the Steam client. It lets users collect cards from certain games and trade them and receive rewards for complete sets.
The option to display dialog and other information with text on screen.
When someone uses an illegal loophole to avoid paying for income tax.
What lies ahead, and is distant from the present.
It's the designer's go-to guy. If they want to steer a player in a given direction they'll lock an in game door and force the player to find a way to either unlock it or find an alternate route.
A disguised character whom nobody within the fiction finds suspicious, but whose real identity and/or intentions are quite obvious to the player.
The act of changing an event in the past that significantly alters further events leading up to the present. This is a major element of many stories involving time travel.
The concept of a character leaping forwards or backwards in time.
For some reason, some games are named after the opposing person. Sometimes it's because the bad guy is cooler than the good guy.
Twins are two offspring conceived simultaneously as a result of the same pregnancy. They can be of the same or different sex.
Extra objects, characters, or content in a game that can only be accessed after completing a certain task such as completing the game, or by using cheat codes.
Some video games feature characters that play video games themselves, with the player sometimes taking control of the character playing the game-within-a-game. This also includes game characters who explicitly mention that they play video games.
The ability to watch/use video surveillance devices in a game.
A malevolent character whose goals are evil in nature. While villains are commonly featured as antagonists, not all antagonists are necessarily villains.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
The disgusting process in which a character regurgitates the contents of their stomach back into the world, usually performed as a means of purging the body of poisons or intoxicants, but often (in videogames, anyway) used as a means of projectile attack by non-human enemies.
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