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The ability to grab your opponent mid-air and throw him once you have your hand on him.
A quick burst of speed either forward or backward whilst in the air.
A protagonist who lacks some or all of the qualities traditionally seen as heroic.
The deliberate animation of breasts, meant to titillate as a means to conform to more realistic physics.
86cm (34")-56cm (22")-83cm (33")
A physics simulation or manual animation of a character's posterior.
A protagonist who is arrogant, cynical, and aggressive, but also intelligent and introspective. Named after the English Romanticist writer Lord Byron, who popularized such characters and was said to have fit this description himself.
When a character from an existing media franchise makes a brief appearance in a video game, sometimes without even openly acknowledging their origins.
A concept in games with multiple characters, a screen with pictures of all playable characters with the possibility of stat listings.
In 2D fighting games, a command grab is a character-unique grab that is triggered by performing a special move command. It is the primary weapon of a "grappler" character.
The CP System is a family of arcade system hardware manufactured by Capcom for their arcade games from 1988 to 1999, including the Street Fighter II and Street Fighter III games.
Some games just won't settle for laughs. Some games make you want to cringe as you're busting a gut.
See? The exploiting, soulless people who run the video game industry DO care about their fans!
This concept is for games where at least one of the main characters is female.
An alluring female who uses her charms to seduce men with intention of using them to further her own intentions.
Can be flattened in Pocket Fighter/Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix.
It's not just for airplanes anymore: Game mascots and MMO players alike have taken to the skies. Players can use flight to quickly navigate large levels, find hidden items, or take opponents down.
Gothic Lolita is a fashion sense based on styles from England's Victorian era which has developed in Japan, particularly in Tokyo.
Games featuring guests introduce playable, established characters from outside of a franchise. Primarily but not exclusively seen in fighting games.
When a developer begs and pleads and offers to do laundry for even a tiny guest appearance, sometimes those famous characters will still flake on them. At least they still have their laundry.
The Izuna Drop's origin began in the 1969 manga called Ninpu Kamui Gaiden OP (The Legend of Kamui). Kamui learned this move from watching weasels leap from trees and attack birds. Many fictional ninja and/or video game characters use Kamui's move to this day, such as Vega (Street Fighter), Ryu Hayabusa (Dead or Alive / Ninja Gaiden), and Kage-Maru (Virtua Fighter).
The ability to float through the air without the aid of a mechanical device such as a jetpack, or the usual biological aids, such as wings.
A process by which one player/creature's health points are transferred to another, particularly via a spell, technique or item.
Used in fighting games, projectiles are objects that a fighter can launch at another fighter to attack from a distance. While they can be used to simply inflict damage, projectiles are often used to maneuver opponents into disadvantageous positions.
Characters that are designed to be scantily-clad.
An intimate physical activity between two or more individuals.
Female characters who are designed with highly idealized figures and proportions, outfits that are revealing and/or form-fitting, and prone to ending up in completely over-the-top poses designed to show off their bodies.
The ability to change shape. Humans shifting into animals is the most common type of shape shifting.
Shoryuken is the move made famous by Ryu and Ken Masters of the Street Fighter franchise. Shoryuken translates to "Rising Dragon Fist" but most English speakers simply refer to it as the "Dragon Punch."
A fighting game archetype where characters with a significant similarity in fighting style to Street Fighter's Ryu & Ken.
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