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A narrow street with walls on both sides.
A place to buy alcoholic beverages and to mingle/meet with non player characters. Bars in games are sometimes essential to advance the plot, or recruit party members. Bars are the modern equivalents of taverns. You see taverns in fantasy games and bars in modern/sci-fi games.
A bowling alley is a place with one or more lanes dedicated to bowling, the sport where you try to roll a ball down a lane to hit as many of the 10 pins as possible. May or may not have funky shoes.
A place to gamble.
A common place in Survival Horror video games. Burial grounds for the deceased. Or zombies.
A city is a large and densely populated urban area.
A convenient shop full of convenient things. In North America, they're typically attached to gas stations and pharmacies.
A port where seagoing vessels can take on or discharge cargo.
Earth is a rocky planet orbiting the Sun, and the homeworld of Humanity. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines Earth as "mostly harmless."
The field of play used for the game golf. The average golf course features eighteen holes.
Japan is an island country located in Eastern Asia and the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. In the video game industry, Japan has for a long time been one of the most important territories for the development and sale of video games.
A fictional district of Tokyo known for its vibrant nightlife and heavy yakuza presence. It is a major location in the Yakuza series.
A city in the Kansai region of southern Japan, home to Nintendo and other game companies. Though smaller than nearby Osaka and Kobe, Kyoto is renowned for its historic architecture and is often described as the cultural heart of Japan.
A elevation of land rising to a height greater than 610 meters.
Nagoya, Japan is the fourth largest city in Japan and is home to the Nagoya Castle and Astuta Chrine. This city is also the birthplace of Pachinko.
A location wherein real-life and fictional beings alike go to relax, get plastered, and/or shake their groove thang.
Popular in UFC and other MMA events.
A common vacation spot (including beautiful beaches and warm weather), Okinawa is one of the southern prefectures of Japan.
A secret prison operated by Japanese government contractors in which the prison staff freely abuses the prisoners. In Yakuza 4, Taiga Saejima is transferred here as his execution date approaches.
A house for wayward children who are bereft of parentage.
Osaka is the second largest city in Japan, and is located at the mouth of the Yoda River on Osaka Bay. It is also known as" 天下の台所", "tenka no daidokoro" or the gourmet capital of Japan.
A parcel of land designated for public and recreational use.
Featured in extensive amounts of games. Either acts as inventory for cars, like in GTA, or battlegrounds, like in Mercenaries.
Pharmacies are used to sell medical prescriptions.
A prison is a secure location built for the confinement of a person or persons for a set length of time. It is often built by the state to punish criminals, and sequester them from productive members of society.
Area above houses and buildings. You can walk, run or jump on and over rooftops. Usually good sniping positions.
This stage appears in Street Fighter IV / Super Street Fighter IV, and is set in China.
A network of underground tunnels designed for the disposal of waste.
Settlements of impoverished people who live in dwellings made from scrap materials. Also known as a slum, or ghetto.
A ship is a nautical vessel that carries passengers or freight. Ships that are treated as actual locations as opposed to objects.
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