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Games that have had television shows based on them.
This concept occurs in many RPGs and Sci-Fi games. The Ancient Advanced Civilization Technology is often a giant weapon (Halo Rings, Giant of Babil, etc.) that becomes a major plot focus in the stories of these games.
Games where characters have a cannon for an arm.
A mechanic used mainly in Japanese RPGs of both the action and turn-based variety.
Bosses are enemies that fight you at the end of a level or at a significant point in the story.
When a character from an existing media franchise makes a brief appearance in a video game, sometimes without even openly acknowledging their origins.
One of the age-old narrative structures in literature, in which a young protagonist faces conflict that transforms him or her into a mature adult. This is an especially common device in RPGs.
Cyberpunk is an aesthetic choice that is employed in many different media, it focuses on technology and how that technology encroaches on our natural, daily lives.
The 2007 E3 Media & Business Summit took place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California on July 11-13.
A fictional currency is one where the object being exchanged does not exist in the real world, such as Final Fantasy's Gil, or are not used for exchange in the real world, such as Fallout's bottlecaps.
The last boss you face in a game, usually representing the final climax of the game.
Fairly weak enemies (not specific characters) that go down in a couple shots or swings, but will keep coming in droves.
These are games that dump you directly to the title screen after you get Game Over screen.
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.
A element from the Mega Man Battle Network and Mega Man Star Force series.
A passive EM Being type that exists in the Wave World throughout the Mega Man Star Force series
In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
While locking pirating users out entirely is the most common way for developers to curb digital piracy, some create in-game consequences designed to amuse, mock, impede, or oust players using suspected pirated copies.
A love triangle is when three (or more) people are in some kind of romantic relationship with each other. They can become messy and complicated. It may or may not be competitive.
An enemy that appeared in almost every Mega Man game made. Met is the Mega Man series's answer to the Dragon Quest series's blue Slime.
A character whose intentions seem to be to help the player character, but their motives are unclear.
An Internet Navigator, or NetNavi for short, is a computer program with artificial intelligence. They were created to assist their operators, and reside in PETs.
Certain Game Boy Advance games will unlock stuff for the Nintendo DS ones with this method.
Only in Japan. A card reader could be inserted into the expansion slot
Nintendo's online service. It supported the Wii and Nintendo DS.
Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.
Enemies that appear out of nowhere and force the player into a battle.
‘S-Rank’ is a term used in games, most commonly awarded at the end of stages with graded missions or side objectives.
Many games feature a story which involves saving the world and its inhabitants, often single handedly.
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