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A game with deceptively simple goals and deliberately convoluted controls. Examples include: QWOP, CLOP, Girp, Surgeon Simulator 2013, and Probably Archery.
A piledriver is a professional wrestling move in which the wrestler grabs his opponent, turns him upside-down, and drives the opponent's head into whatever happens to be below.
Satsui no Hadou, or "Surge of Murderous Intent", is a super-natural martial power in the Street Fighter Series.
Similar to the Ultra Combo concept, these are high damage special moves that expend your Hyper Meter.
A feature in fighting games that sees the combatants say something unique to each other prior to the beginning of the fight. It has been popularlized by NetherRealm Studios' Mortal Kombat and Injustice games starting with MKX.
An advanced movement mechanic in fighting games which allows quick and relatively safe grounded movement by either sliding due to momentum from a movement option from the air (like an Air Dodge) or cancelling dashes by crouching.
The X-Force are a militant division of the X-Men.
The X-Men are a group of mutants that support their rights as people and are a significant team of the Marvel Universe.
Throw your shield!
The CL4P-TP General Purpose Robots, better known as Claptraps, are robots who assist the population of Pandora in Borderlands. The first Claptrap in the game (the one on the title screen) is almost always dancing for some reason.
Autism describes a loose collective of neurodevelopmental conditions, the most common of which tend to be difficulty socializing, repetitive behavior, and sensory sensitivity.
Games that either require or optionally support the HTC Vive.
Inflation is when you expand or fill up something with something else, usually air, to make it more full or bigger. Some mini-games have you be the first to completely inflate a balloon, or, in the case of Dig-Dug, you inflate monsters to have them explode!
RMT's are the concept of spending real money, for items within a game, common to the free to play market
Indicating an alternate reality, or "spooky time" in the case of a horror game, by letting in-game clocks run backwards.
A central concept in the Zero Escape series, the Nonary Game is a deadly competition that revolves around the use of the number 9.
The Press Turn System is the combat system used in several Shin Megami Tensei games. It allows players and enemies alike to take advantage of opponents weaknesses and provides a unique and challenging take on the turn based battle.
A concept found in the Persona series. After random battles an occasional shuffle time screen will appear where the player can try his or her luck at getting various persona or other bonuses.
A special attack seen in the Persona series where the entire party will strike all enemies on the field after they've been knocked down.
When a game opens with a ride in a vehicle or a camera fly-by, which serves to give the player a peek at some places of interest in the game world, establish elements of the story, or both.
Whenever a game prompts the player to enter a character's mind, or a world where a character's thoughts are shown through the level design.
When a character wears a shirt/coat/etc. without putting their arms in the sleeves.
A series of holidays in Japan, occurring at the beginning of May.
Games where one or more of the player's antagonists are a law enforcement officer. This can be because the player is a criminal, or any other number of reasons, including corrupt/dirty/prejudiced cops.
A character who gets washed ashore on some island or other remote place.
Jeet Kune Do is a martial arts ideology created by Bruce Lee. This ideology can be seen in video games, often by those who combine different martial arts.
Females with the double X chromosome, contrary to the fighters of the XY variety.
A female entertainer skilled in traditional Japanese music and dance.
A Poring is one of the iconic monsters from Ragnarok Online that looks very similar to a Dragon Quest Slime.
An air shot is the exact intersection of two flying objects, your projectile and someone else about to be in pain.
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