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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.
An online digital distribution system for arcade games in Japan.
A powerful release of energy. This energy is usually expelled in all directions very quickly, typically giving off orange or red flames.
The One Year War is a fictional conflict featured in the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime and countless related sidestories. The war between the Earth Federation and Principality of Zeon is featured in many, if not most, Gundam-related games.
Moral dilemmas presented to the player that often have a significant effect on the story or other characters.
Turn-based games divide game actions into distinct parts, called turns. This gives the player time to strategically choose actions as the battle or events unfold.
Games that have seasons have their environment change depending on the time of the year.
Farming is the act of growing plants and raising animals for food.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
Games based on literature. This does not include licenses of another adaptation.
The political thriller is a story, often action-oriented, that tends to revolve around two or more nations struggling to gain power. Outcomes are usually found through military confrontations, covert wars, and back alley negotiating.
A way of attempting to control a population via media.
As time progresses, the character ages. A boy one moment, a man the next, soon the character is so old he's on the brink of death...
Experienced soldiers that often feature as mentor characters.
Nothing helps set a game in a specific point in time more than having a few famous faces from history drop by to say hi.
Two or more factions, either with the same or completely different goals, that constantly try to one-up each other. The player is sometimes forced to pick a side to root or work for during the struggle. Other times the rivalry is only mentioned in the plot.
A small demon who terrorizes Sir Arthur and Momotaru in their respective games.
Main characters in games who hold leadership positions for a nation, world or planet.
A service started by Nintendo in 1997 that allowed customers to purchase digital Super Famicom and Game Boy games at an in-store kiosk that would be written onto RAM cartridges available for each system.
A concept found in many puzzle and casual games. Matching blocks of the same color or type to gain points and/or erase the blocks.
Crows are familiar over much of the world: large, intelligent, all-black birds with hoarse, cawing voices.
Pandas are black and white bears that live mainly in China and zoos. It is an endangered species.
An unofficial translation of a video game, created by people not associated with the original development team.
Neglectful and/or abusive parents and parental figures.
Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, commonly refers to the programmed behaviors of NPCs in a game, whether it's the fact that a soldier takes cover behind a wall in Gears of War, or that townspeople cheer upon your arrival to their village in Fable.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
Female ninja.
A traditional Japanese board game also known as Japanese chess.
Destructible cover is an increasingly popular feature in shooters, even those without cover systems. It is used to encourage creative tactics both in single-player and multiplayer.
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