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A mode in the game, often an unlockable, allowing players to listen to individual music tracks, voice clips and/or sound effects.
Kill Stealing involves a player killing another player's target in order to gain his or her "prize". These include loot, experience points, a point score, etc.
CQC and CQB are close range combat techniques.
Crowd control is the art of whittling down large groups of attacking enemies via the constant reassessment of the greatest threat to the player; achieved by constant player movement, and adjusting the aim to the closest threat, then quickly moving on to the next greatest threat, and so forth.
'Drop-In' is a style of co-op gameplay where extra players can join the 1st player seamlessly without having to quit the game or navigate any menus. Many of these games do allow players to 'Drop-Out' of the game in a similar manner.
In many games that feature team-based competition, "Friendly Fire" is the ability shoot or somehow directly impair ones own teammates.
Anything that can be picked up and used temporarly. Basically any item that is optional but can be used to an advantage.
In a number of games, characters often talk about friendship and the importance of friends, some sacrificing themselves for one another.
In some of the older platforming games, the protagonist had no choice but to advance.
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.
Characters, items, etc. will sometimes blink before disappearing.
A boss character in a game which shows up again later as a regular enemy.
Usually refers to the end of the world.
A person who goes outside of the law to punish those who have committed an act of injustice. Their methods usually cause them to be perceived as criminals.
Some game environments feature certain areas that allow for special kills outside a player's normal cadre of moves. These kills usually feature unique animations such as slamming an enemy's head through a television or sticking their head in a trash compactor.
The act of pressing your lips against someone or something else as a sign of affection.
Some remakes allow you to switch back to how the game originally looked.
Games which have served as the basis of a comic book or vice versa.
Japanese PC online digital distribution service for emulated retro games, launched on 24 November 2001, years before similar services from Steam, Virtual Console, or XBLA.
Belt scrolling is a 2D perspective, side-scrolling action with downward camera angle. The character is able to move not only sideways, but also vertically within a limited area, giving pseudo-3D depth. Mostly used by beat 'em up brawlers, this term is mainly used in Japan and comes from the conveyor belt like viewpoint.
Games that have been removed from sale from various digital store fronts.
Some versus/multiplayer modes had fighting game elements in non-fighting games.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
The NFL is a professional american football league. It has become the most popular spectator sport in the US.
A person who herds cattle on ranches. Cowboys are emblematic of the early 19th century in the American southwest, and became conflated with gunslinger types in the public imagination.
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.
Rabbits, or bunnies, are smallish mammals with long ears and a cottony tail.
Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
Games that involve the racing of horses.
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