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Neglectful and/or abusive parents and parental figures.
A sport in which the player throws a ball down a lane in order to knock over 10 pins that are set up in a triangular shape.
From a new generation of fighting games, most notably Street Fighter IV, the comeback mechanic allows characters with low health to activate a powerful move or mode.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
An organism consisting of both natural and artificial systems.
The process of fighting, but with dance.
It's all in the family.
A gene inherited from the devil himself, if you somehow have some devil gene in you, you may find yourself transforming into a devil version of yourself sometime soon. Prominent in Capcom and Namco franchises Tekken and Devil May Cry.
Games that have been used as the basis for motion pictures.
"Hand to hand. It is the basis of all combat." -Gray Fox
HD collections are multiple games in a franchise that have been remastered to comform to HD standards and then put on a single disc.
Health is a value that gauges how much damage players can take in a game before they die or pass out. Also known as life in some games. Health is usually represented by a bar or a percentage instead of an exact amount. Found in most non sport games
"The gentle way", a martial art focused on grapples and throws.
This is a concept in fighting or other action games of attacking an enemy in order to keep the enemy in the air, unable to fight back. This is also a tactic in tower defense games of keeping the enemy on the battlefield longer by manipulating towers.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
Martial arts are a popular set of skills that many video game characters possess. Martial arts are the cornerstone of any fighting game, and have influenced many platforming and adventure games.
Some action-oriented games make use of motion capture technology to make character's movements realistic.
A powerful punch, frequently capable of knocking the recipient off into the distance. Named after Naru Naruseqawa (Love Hina), who frequently uses it on Keitaro. It is also known as the "Megaton Punch", as seen in Disgaea and Pokémon.
Third-party developers and publishers occasionally engage in the practice of releasing a title or piece of DLC on only one platform for any number of reasons. Sometimes these are permanent while others are only platform exclusive for a certain window of time.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Revenge is an act of violence, financial ruin, or emotional torment that one person or group carries out against another, in response to some perceived wrongdoing.
Men too tough to cover up their chest.
A competition between brothers and sisters.
Moving to the left or right without rotating the body axis. The technique, also called side-stepping, is useful in FPS games to avoid incoming fire without turning away from a target.
The act of taking one's own life.
A supersoldier is a soldier artificially given abilities far beyond those of normal humans. These include increased strength, speed, stamina, intelligence, the ability to fly, the ability to create fire with their mind, etc.
Strength beyond normal human bounds, i.e. lifting cars, bending metals, shattering a street with one's fist.
Multiple fighters/people ganging up to fight another fight/group of fighter.
Characters who are influenced and clearly modeled after the late Jeet Kune Do Master, Bruce Lee.
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