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Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Nov 30, 1996
An often used plot device where the main character wakes up and has lost all their memories. The game usually centers around getting your memory back or uncovering the events that lead to your confusion.
The Black Market is a concept wherein players may buy or sell items through alternative means. This is often a way to make more money but can often land the player into trouble.
A rare case were a spin-off takes place during the series' timeline.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
Humanoids with feline characteristics. Feline humanoids are most commonly seen in Japanese games.
FMVs are pre-rendered videos used in place of real-time graphics. Using FMV was an attempt to make videogames look "more like movies", sometimes with CGI animation and others with live-action actors speaking directly to players. The downside is that FMV requires a lot of disk space, and live-action FMV in particular can look terrible by comparison.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
Known sometimes as jump gates, hyperspace gates, star gates, these structures are like Satellites that use wormhole technology to propel ships either simultaneously to another sector in space or greatly cuts down the travel time. Though they can be human made, they often have been created hundreds or thousands of years before humanity travels the stars, by an ancient race that often are extinct.
Criminals banded together with a common goal in mind. Can range from a band of thugs to the Mafia.
Space is usually empty, but sometimes it's filled with virtual death machines.
Like pirates, only spacier. Frequent antagonists in sci-fi games, especially the Metroid series.
The act of buying a particular good for a low price at one location, and selling it at another location for a higher price, resulting in a profit.
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