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An eight legged arachnid. Some make webs to catch prey and some are poisonous. None have made a web grand enough to be called a parlor, though.
A game that uses a mixture of 2D & 3D techniques. Commonly used to describe the use of either 3D graphics restricted to a 2D perceptive, or 2D graphics used to fake the appearance of a 3D perceptive.
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, commonly refers to the programmed behaviors of NPCs in a game, whether it's the fact that a soldier takes cover behind a wall in Gears of War, or that townspeople cheer upon your arrival to their village in Fable.
A level that is impossible or nearly impossible to complete because of a programming error or oversight. Often times the screen number is a power of 2 or 10.
The ultimate pressure feature. Players have to complete the task at hand, be it defeating opponents or cutting the right wire, in the allotted time.
When a game's title succinctly describes or indicates how the game is played, or a specific game mode.
A leaderboard is a way for players of any multi-player game to know where they rank within the game's community.
Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
Games that have other games, usually older games from the same game series or publisher, hidden inside them and that you can play. Sometimes available in the game world or hidden as collectibles or behind challenges. this page both lists the games that are inside other games and the games that host the latter.
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.
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!
Bats are small, very social flying mammals. They may frequent caves or haunted houses.
A powerful release of energy. This energy is usually expelled in all directions very quickly, typically giving off orange or red flames.
Arguably the most fearsome of all the reptiles - it has scales and no legs. Snakes use a variety of tactics to harm players such as poison, hypnosis, and constriction. The most deadly snakes have mastered the way of stealth.
When a certain amount of time is given to the player to reach a goal or finish an objective.
If a person is made of metal and has circuitry instead of a circulatory system, then their game belongs on this list.
Game visuals based on mathematical calculations. As opposed to texture or sprite based raster graphics.
Xbox 360 and original Xbox games that have been approved to run on the Xbox One's backwards compatibility feature.
Depending on the country, a song enters public domain after a certain number of years after release or after the death of the writer. In the United States, it is 95 years after release.
Controller Overlay is a technique developers used to help communicate to the player what each of the buttons on the console's controller did. With today's tech and evolution of gaming, this concept is accomplished by on-screen guidance.
An online retro gaming streaming platform.
When fighting is no longer relegated to the ground, but can also take place in the air.
Video game controversy revolves mostly around the psychological effects that games with graphic violence or sexual content in them can have on players. Other sources of controversy can range from racism, sexism, politics, or religion.
This concept is for games where at least one of the main characters is female.
Sometime companies include the name of a company in a title. Usually it's their own, but they have been known to shill for others.
Winged, usually flying creatures, many of which enjoy perching on branches and defecating on unfortunate victims below.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
A parallel projection technique used in 2D sprite-based games to fake the appearance of 3D depth.
Potentially deadly in the real world, annoying and funny in the animated world.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's online gaming service.
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