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A style of gameplay where players must navigate a vast stream of projectiles.
Games that are controlled partially or entirely with a touch screen.
Vertical scrolling is when the screen scrolls along the y-axis. In a vertical scrolling game the player usually starts from the bottom of the screen and moves up. They are also almost always presented in a top-down perspective.
A software used for video compaction on Nintendo handheld games.
An act most commonly found in top down shooters where bullets/danmaku touches your character model but not your hit box. Some games give bonus points for the act of grazing.
A version of a game purchased in one part of the world may not be playable in another. Region free games however, can be played anywhere.
Sudoku is a number puzzle popularized in Japan in 1984, and later worldwide, although its origins stem from similar puzzles in France and the US.
A series of arcade system boards from Taito that uses commodity PC hardware. It is commonly used for third-party Japanese arcade games and pachinko machines since 2004.
Short for the "New Arcade Operation Machine Idea", the NAOMI is a series of arcade system boards by Sega based on their Dreamcast architecture. It was used on a wide variety of arcade releases in the late '90s and early 2000's.
A bullet pattern is a top-down or side-view barrage of bullets, in a repeating pattern, that the player must dodge (or in some cases the player must hit the bullets).
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