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Alien

Extraterrestrials appear in many video games in a variety of styles. Sometimes they're evil, sometimes they're benevolent, and sometimes they're very similar to humans.

Bats

Bats are small, very social flying mammals. They may frequent caves or haunted houses.

Boss Fight

A boss fight is a culminating challenge that pits the player against one or more enemies representing a greater threat and/or difficulty than those previously faced. These scenarios typically feature unique antagonists.

Cheat Code

Special codes or button combinations used to gain powers or advantages in a game. Generally hidden.

Chicken

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.

Condors

Descendants of Other Characters

It's all in the family.

Ferris Wheel Platforms

A cluster of platforms that have the same rotating movement as a Ferris Wheel. Thusly, they always remain in a horizontal position.

Fish

Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.

Frankenstein's Monster

Frankenstein's monster is the creature inspired by the Mary Shelley novel, Frankenstein. Usually creatures inspired by this theme are made from different body parts and almost always have bolts through their necks. They're usually naive and destructive.

Frozen Half

A transgender variation on the typical yuki-onna of Japanese mythology.

Ghost

These spooky entities are the spirits of the dead, returned from beyond their graves for generally sinister purposes. There's generally about even odds whether a particular ghost will be helpful or malevolent towards the living, but some ghosts just want to be left alone entirely.

Giant Enemy Worm

It is believed that Frank Herbert's Dune books were the first to popularize the concept of a giant worm that is capable of devouring a person whole without even noticing it.

In Game Anti-Piracy Effects

While locking pirating users out entirely is the most common way for developers to curb digital piracy, some create in-game consequences designed to amuse, mock, impede, or oust players using suspected pirated copies.

Jiang Shi

Hopping Chinese vampires that suck life force.

Jump

It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.

Keseran Pasaran

A ghost or cryptid in Japanese folkore that takes on the appearance of a fuzzy (usually white) ball. Appears frequently in the Castlevania games, where it is known as "Fuzz Buster" in the western versions.

Knight

A heavily armored soldier in the service of a lord or cause. Typically a champion of good and a defender of the innocent.

Konami Code

The legendary Konami code, any who knew it were rewarded in many classic Konami games. UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A (SELECT) (START)!

LGBT

An umbrella term for any sexual orientation or gender identity that is not straight.

Male Protagonists

This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.

Minigame

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!

Native American

A member of any number of tribes or ethnic groups, indigenous to regions of North America which are now part of the United States. Many of these groups continue to exist as intact legal and political entities.

Octopus

Aquatic creatures with eight tentacles covered with suction cups. They often appear as boss enemies.

Pit

A place to fall, often bottomless, usually resulting in death.

Player Character

Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.

Robot

If a person is made of metal and has circuitry instead of a circulatory system, then their game belongs on this list.

Seal

A carnivorous semiacquatic marine mammal.

Skeletons

The skeleton is the framework of the human body.

Solid Cloud

Clouds that, for some reason, can be stood on without falling through.