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Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Oct 26, 1997
Strategy games which encourage users to eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate.
Whether you're trying to stay alive for a certain time period or just trying to gain the upper hand in a fight, being able to make a barricade is crucial to your survival.
Winged, usually flying creatures, many of which enjoy perching on branches and defecating on unfortunate victims below.
The era between 3300 and 1200 BC where a civilization makes tools and weaponry out of bronze. The bronze age sits between the stone age and the iron age
Special codes or button combinations used to gain powers or advantages in a game. Generally hidden.
The act of building something. Using resources to build units, buidlings, structures of any kind.
CTRL 1-9 = CTRL Group. Crucial to battlefield success, using Control Groups in most RTS games allows one to better manage ones forces.
Cows are four-legged ruminant mammals, bred for milk, meat, or leather.
An order of large reptiles that encompases the Alligator, Gharial, Caiman and Crocodile families. While dangerous on land, they're pure killing machines in the wet element.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
A destructible environment means the player has the ability to destroy his/her surroundings. This allows players to use the environment to their advantage.
A game mechanic in which you can interact with another country/civilization. Usually games allow you to declare war, offer peace, trade, etc. using diplomacy.
The 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Georgia World Congress Center and Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia on June 19-21.
Large birds that like to swoop and eat things. And they have large talons.
It may seem like bottom rung, but its your best friend when you just HAVE to find out if the Princess is in the castle and your date is waiting for you. Go ahead and hit those crosshairs until your shame is backlit by neon text outline, just don't expect any achievements!
Games that include a simulated economy which the player(s) can affect.
An elephant is the largest land mammal who has big ears, a trunk for a nose, a tail, and tusks. Supposedly they have good memories, hidden graveyards, a love of peanuts, and a great fear of mice.
Farming is the act of growing plants and raising animals for food.
Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
A staple in both the real-time and turn-based strategy genres, Fog of War simulates the unknowns of the battlefield by covering areas of the map, to be progressively revealed by the player.
Game Over originally appeared in pinball machines, and later, arcade machines. When players lose at a game, it is game over.
General MIDI (also known as GM or GM 1) is a standardized specification for electronic musical instruments that respond to MIDI messages. It is used in the large majority of older DOS and Windows games.
For MMO's that survive for a number of years, the developers often revamp the look of the game to keep it fresh and current. This could mean redesigning the character models or even entire zones/regions of the game.
Hotkeys allow advanced players to map game functions to a single button on a keyboard for quick and easy access.
Pursuing and killing or capturing wild animals for sport or food.
Map Makers or Editors are built-in tools that allow the average gamer to tweak or fully customize a map of their own, with no mod or programming skills required.
The 1998 Interactive Achievement Awards celebrated the best games and software of 1997.
When civilizations mainly used steel and iron to fashion their tools and weapons. The iron age follows the bronze age and is the last of the three prehistoric periods.
A parallel projection technique used in 2D sprite-based games to fake the appearance of 3D depth.
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