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Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
Antlions are predatory larvae that design "sand pit traps" in order to capture prey.
An online retro gaming streaming platform.
Bats are small, very social flying mammals. They may frequent caves or haunted houses.
Bosses are enemies that fight you at the end of a level or at a significant point in the story.
A boss fight is a culminating challenge that pits the player against one or more enemies representing a greater threat and/or difficulty than those previously faced. These scenarios typically feature unique antagonists.
A specific phrase that gets attached to a specific character, something they are known for saying.
A cyclops is any race of creature that is born with only one eye.
The concept of a helpless female character in desperate need of rescuing by the protagonist, in most cases from a villain, or from a form of impending doom.
Games that have been removed from sale from various digital store fronts.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
Your friend in medicine. Mostly.
Dragons were originally messengers from heaven, according to early Buddhist texts. In games, they can be among the most fearsome of adversaries, but there are some exceptions.
In games, fire can be an obstacle, a tool, a weapon, or a solution. Just don't play with it...unless you really want to.
A gigantic variant of the famous crustacean and the subject of a popular 00s internet meme.
Commonly seen in brawlers, typically with the word "go" next to it, this is an indicator in side-scrolling games of which way to go, and usually an indicator that all of the enemies in an area have been defeated.
A humanoid construct given life through magic. The materials used to create a golem vary greatly.
Any game that involves jumping on an enemy's head as an attack, such as in Super Mario Bros.
Any object that holds health, ammo, equipment, money, etc. The container must be opened or destroyed in order to procure the items within.
Kidnapping is often used in videogames as a motivation for the protagonist to venture into unknown worlds and fight seemingly hopeless battles.
Fish that are just as dangerous out of water as they are in it.
They may be good or evil, but mad scientists are always performing experiments that are on the outer fringes of science. Ever since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, they've been in the scene.
A boss fight in which the player must not only battle the actual boss, but must also defeat or defend against auxiliary enemies.
Mummies are lumbering undead corpses wrapped in bandages. They are often associated with ancient Egypt and may have magical powers or be immortal.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
Scorpions are an eight-legged arachnids with two large pincers and a venomous stinger on the tail, used to kill or subdue prey and defend against aggressors. Though their sting can be very painful to humans, few scorpion species can kill a healthy adult.
An object that instantly kills all enemies / destroys everything on the screen. Example: The Serious Bomb from the Serious Sam games.
Games whose titles consist of a single word.
A blob consisting of some icky substance, the slime monster is one of the most used RPG monster clichés besides rats.
The act of sliding down an elevated geological formation, often on your buttocks.
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