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Button Mashing is a term used to describe gameplay where certain skills can be only realized explicitly through mashing buttons, a reckless player trying to get results or when the game rewards the player(s) who bash buttons the fastest. The latter example is common in Party Games.
A game where you eventually receive a map of an area. Like in Metroid Prime you have map download stations to get a map outline of the area. This is the same concept in the exploring Castlevania games.
A shooter in which the player movement is restricted so they can only follow a linear, predetermined path. This style of game is considered very "arcadey" and is usually accompanied by a lightgun.
Cheating is the act of creating an advantage by using methods beyond the normal means of the game.
The peashooter is the default weapon used at the start and after dying in many arcade style games.
Necessary to sustain life in organic creatures, the crimson fluid known as blood tends to make appearances when the body's structure is compromised in some way, a very, very common occurrence in videogames.
Werewolves are humans that can shapeshift into wolves or wolf-like creatures. They often have strength and senses that surpasses those of both humans and wolves.
Traffic consists a bunch of cars, pedestrians and other vehicles using a common transport route.
The PlayChoice-10 was an arcade console released by Nintendo containing ten Nintendo Entertainment System games per unit.
Video games contain a lot of activities for players to do underwater, from exploration to combat. Sometimes games treat water as simple low gravity movement, while other games treat underwater more realistically.
This is a list of PC games which support connecting an Xbox 360 controller to your computer and using it to play the game.
An English soccer club based in Manchester.
OnLive was a cloud gaming service offering video game streaming through a user's computer, smartphone, or TV.
a jumping or leaping kick often portrayed in action movies.
Orcs/Orks/Orques are a fictional race of tough humanlike creatures, often with green or black skin, originally coming from the Saxon word for the Normans during the invasion, meaning demon or foreigner.
A heavily armored soldier in the service of a lord or cause. Typically a champion of good and a defender of the innocent.
Karate is an umbrella term for a wide range of martial arts originating in pre-Japanese Okinawa.
Whether by item or otherwise, temporary invincibility provides the user a brief moment where they are impervious to attack.
Levels whose visual design represents objects or symbols (including text).
A door that players must go through to exit the level
Mummies are lumbering undead corpses wrapped in bandages. They are often associated with ancient Egypt and may have magical powers or be immortal.
Witches are women who can perform magic. There can be good witches and bad witches.
A small animal that digs tunnels and mostly feeds on earthworms. Its eyesight is weak, but the smell and the touch are strong
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
The primary race in the Dizzy series
This page describes the intricacies and importance of the sweep kick in fighting/brawler.
Environments cycle between day and night, often with effects on other aspects of the game.
The value that determines how many events can take place in a character's turn in pure turn based combat as well as in the modern Fallout franchise.
Carefully exploring a large, labyrinthine area full of enemies (i.e., a dungeon) in the hopes of finding treasure, leveling up, or completing a specific task. Having their roots in tabletop games, video game dungeon crawls are found almost exclusively in RPGs.
Passwords are codes used to save a player's progress, primarily during the 8-bit era and, to a lesser extent, the 16-bit era.
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