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The minimap is a small, simplified version of a larger map. This plays a vital role in many games, especially Real Time Strategy, where it is important to have an overview of the entire map.
Levels whose visual design represents objects or symbols (including text).
Also known as the "Sega My Card", Sega Cards are an alternate cartridge format for Sega's earliest game consoles. While they were cheaper to produce, they could only hold smaller more-limited games.
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.
Someone who investigates unsolved crimes and other mysterious happenings, either for a living, as a hobby, or simply by chance.
The Roundhouse is a kick taught in many martial-arts, though believed to have originally been conceived as part of a developed fighting system by monks for Shaolin Kung-fu. Notable real-life users include Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li.
Using gestures with the controller to control on-screen actions. Alternatively, these gestures can also be detected by motion-sensing cameras.
Commonly seen in brawlers, typically with the word "go" next to it, this is an indicator in side-scrolling games of which way to go, and usually an indicator that all of the enemies in an area have been defeated.
Being able to travel off one side of the screen and in from the other side.
A shadow is an area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by an object.
A chicken is a small, domesticated flightless bird that can be white, yellow, brown or black. A female is a hen, a male a rooster, and a baby a chick.
Nudity is qualified as either exposed buttocks, breasts, or genitalia or general lack of clothing. Video game nudity is largely a rarity outside of the PC market.
Parallax scrolling is a scrolling effect used in video game graphics, employing multiple scrolling layers to create the illusion of depth, for a pseudo-3D effect in an otherwise 2D scrolling game.
This page describes the intricacies and importance of the sweep kick in fighting/brawler.
A door that players must go through to exit the level
Survival is a concept that signifies that the player's life is constantly in jeopardy.
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Witches are women who can perform magic. There can be good witches and bad witches.
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.
An intermission is a little scene shown between rounds to give the player a break. It may advance the storyline or just be humorous. The intermission can be seen as a grandfather to the cutscene, as they often featured humerous animations that weren't necessarily related to the gameplay at all.
Kidnapping is often used in videogames as a motivation for the protagonist to venture into unknown worlds and fight seemingly hopeless battles.
The primary race in the Dizzy series
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.
The opposite of open-ended gameplay, linear gameplay uses scripted events, Quick time events, cut scenes, and a restricted path to tell a story exactly how the writer intends, and control elements of the action.
A rogue character who doesn't obey the law, bandits are known to steal from people for their own selfish gain.
Puzzle platformers are platform games where the key aspect involves solving riddles and puzzles, rather than combat.
Frequently seen in RPGs and Fighting games, The EHI helps players calculate the current health of opponents.
Fairies appear in many games, usually as a race that will assist players with magic. Fairies are almost exclusively female.
A handful of games deemed of historical significance have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame every year since 2015.
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