Pokémon Leaf Green/Fire Red

A silent protagonist is a character in a game who speaks no lines of dialogue, letting other characters tell the story in scripted moments or cutscenes.

Sprites are 2D images used in video games. Most games used sprites as a means to display images until the advent of polygonal 3D gaming.

These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames.

Health is a value that gauges how much damage a player can take in a game before they die or pass out. Also known as Hit Points (HP) or Life in some games - not to be confused with Lives.

Various franchises release "versions" of the same game. These games are basically the same, but each one lacks something the other has.

A concept in games most often seen in RPGs and FPS games. Many RPGs have certain attacks that while doing low damage, poison the enemy causing them to take damage over time. FPS games sometimes have similar uses of poisons such as rooms filled with poison gas damaging you as you walk around in them.

Quests that aren't necessary for game completion. Often they simply lengthen a game with pointless collecting.

Random encounters are often used in RPGs to put the player into combat situations when they are walking around the world map.

An indication of the amount of damage a character can sustain in game. The loss of all hit points results in the players death, or penalty.

The process by which characters reach a new level, gain greater attributes, and learn more abilities. It usually involves earning enough experience points.

From Beat-em-ups to fighting games to modern FPS, one dude hitting another has made an enjoyable pastime.

Pokémon are creatures that inhabit the Pokémon universe and can be captured and trained for battle.

Mostly in games that involve strategy. It involves special attributes determining the strengths and weaknesses of each move, species, character or type. They often offset each other in a complicated series of rock-paper-scissors relationships.

A device used in many games with vast open worlds, to travel instantaneously from one place to another. sometime appears in the form of an item or skill.

Game Over originally appeared in pinball machines and, later, arcade machines. When you lose at a game, it is game over.

Whether making pinatas do the dance of love or breeding two Pokemon together, making fictional creatures make the fictional creature with two backs is a popular game concept.

A game based on an anime or a game that had an anime adapted from it.

A condition which affects a character's effectiveness, either positively or negatively. Common examples include Poison or Haste.

Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters, the characters controlled by whomever is playing the game.

Enemy Capture is a game mechanic that enables the player to capture or charm enemies and use them. The capture mechanics and the ways enemies are used are myriad, but the effects are always beneficial to the player.

Bulbasaur is a grass/poison type Pokémon that evolves into Ivysaur. Bulbasaur is also the first pokémon species.

Squirtle is a water-type starter pokemon from the original Pokemon Red/Blue. Squirtle uses its watergun attack to weaken its enemies, allowing it to grow and evolve into Wartortle.

Arbok is a poison type Pokémon that evolves from Ekans.

Totodile is a water Pokémon and one of the three starter Pokémon in Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal.

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 legendary pokemon with a body composed of an unknown metal.

Connectivity is a feature in some game systems that enables them to connect to other systems to unlock extra content or other unique functionality.

This pokemon is comprised of Arctic Ice that freezes anything on contact.

Turn based games are everywhere giving the player the ability to strategically choose his actions as the battle or events unfold.

Some games have characters with no names, names that can be chosen by the player, or names which are spelled out by the player.

Ampharos is an electric-type pokemon from Pokemon Silver/Gold. As the evolution of Flaaffy, Ampharos is the third in this line of sheep-looking electric pokemon.

Azumarill is a water-type pokemon first seen in Pokemon Gold/Silver. This pokemon is the evolution of Marill, the third in a line of water pokemon.