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In some games, total immersion is helped along by allowing players to purchase and customize their own housing.
Early and smaller PS2 games were produced on CD-ROM rather than DVD-ROM. They are easily recognized by the iconic, deep blue color of the underside of the disc.
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!
Porting is a term used when a game designed to run on one platform is converted to run on a different platform. Quality varies, though some titles are packaged with extras.
Well... after kissing your spouse, you may be asked if you want to have a baby. If you agree, a baby magically appears. That's a quick pregnancy, people!
The raccoon is a medium-sized mammal native to North America.
Radial Menus are menus that appear in a circular pattern to display the options the player has.
Red tape is an idiom that refers to excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal legislation that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making.
The act of repairing damaged items or weapons.
A joke phrase that was originally coined by Will Wright for a loading screen in SimCity 2000.
Larceny by threat of violence. In video games you either plan and executes such robberies, or your job is to prevent them.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
A type of autonomous robot that has appeared in The Sims games.
An intimate physical activity between two or more individuals.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
A fictional language featured in the Maxis series of "Sim" games, predominately in "The Sims" franchise. Simlish is very similar to Gibberish.
The titular people in EA/Maxis's universe of Sim games. They serve as the citizens in SimCity, and star in the Sims series.
Whether it's to restore your health, save your game, just for the hell of it, or all of the above, sleeping in games has numerous uses.
A Slice-of-Life game portrays the mundane day-to-day existence of a fairly unremarkable person. Note this is the game's entire focus, and not simply setting things up before the main story starts.
Crunchy frozen water fallen from the sky. Many games feature a snow world, a snow level, or otherwise-connected regions of wintery landscapes.
Social work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being.
A variant on regular poker in which instead of losing chips players lose clothing items.
A game perspective that views the action from above, commonly at a fixed position and/or rotation.
Extra objects, characters, or content in a game that can only be accessed after completing a certain task such as completing the game, or by using cheat codes.
When you gotta go, you gotta go. Urination is found in games for a number of reasons, including comic relief and a quick pathway to sobriety.
A mod is a user-created patch that alters any part of a game, or adds new content to it. At the extreme, "total conversion" mods can change the game so much that an entirely new experience is created.
User Generated Content describes any content the end user produces to add onto the content given by the developer. User Generated Content has grown in popularity, with LittleBigPlanet, Forza Motorsport 3, ModNation Racers and Spore being great examples.
Some video games feature characters that play video games themselves, with the player sometimes taking control of the character playing the game-within-a-game. This also includes game characters who explicitly mention that they play video games.
The disgusting process in which a character regurgitates the contents of their stomach back into the world, usually performed as a means of purging the body of poisons or intoxicants, but often (in videogames, anyway) used as a means of projectile attack by non-human enemies.
World Building games focus on the ability of the player to created his own little world just as he wants it. Good examples, are The Sims, Black and White, and Spore.
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