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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.
A form of gambling which has found immense success in Japanese markets, pachinko is an arcade game centered around collecting small balls in holes scattered around a vertical game board.
Games whose titles consist of a single word.
Games prominently featuring celebrities, who either endorse the game or act as the focus of the story. Games with characters who happen to be played by celebrities are not always tie-ins.
Digitized sprites, popularized in the early 90s, were a form of graphics that used footage of real actors, Stop-motion frames of a figure/clay model or 3D renders of characters that were then made digital and put into the game.
Games that include real photography on the game's cover.
Environments cycle between day and night, often with effects on other aspects of the game.
A powerful attack in the Final Fantasy series, useable mostly when a character's hp is low or a certain condition has been met.
The act of dressing in clothing generally associated with the opposite sex, often employed in video games for comic effect or for sexual excitement.
A glitch is an action performed within the bounds of a game engine that was not intended by the game's developers. Glitches are often performed by the player, though they can also occur independently.
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