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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.
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.
Kidnapping is often used in videogames as a motivation for the protagonist to venture into unknown worlds and fight seemingly hopeless battles.
Levels that progress forward by themselves at a fixed rate.
Flattening is taking something three dimensional, and somehow making it very thin almost two dimensional. It can be used for comedic effect or a character to use it to fight through tight spaces.
Game visuals based on mathematical calculations. As opposed to texture or sprite based raster graphics.
"Comic Book Included" is for video games that have an actual physical comic book that come with them (See "Comic Book" for comic books in the games themselves). Sometimes the comics help the player play the game, sometimes they're just a fun diversion.
A mode in which a game will play a gameplay demonstration video as a means to entice players into playing the game.
Whether it be a close up shotgun blast, far away sniper rifle, explosive, or backstab, the "one hit kill" is a popular kill strategy. Usually hard to master and even harder to avoid, the instant kill is loved and hated by gamers everywhere.
Bosses are enemies that fight you at the end of a level or at a significant point in the story.
When a certain amount of time is given to the player to reach a goal or finish an objective.
Games prominently featuring celebrities, who either endorse the game or act as the focus of the story. Games with characters who happen to be played by celebrities are not always tie-ins.
Scorpions are an eight-legged arachnids with two large pincers and a venomous stinger on the tail, used to kill or subdue prey and defend against aggressors. Though their sting can be very painful to humans, few scorpion species can kill a healthy adult.
Games that feature an antagonist--someone who opposes the game's protagonist--that is a man.
In games, fire can be an obstacle, a tool, a weapon, or a solution. Just don't play with it...unless you really want to.
The act of traversing space while attached to a piece game geometry. Sometimes via a rope, or other grapple like object.
Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.
Whether by item or otherwise, temporary invincibility provides the user a brief moment where they are impervious to attack.
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
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.
Games that have had television shows based on them.
A type of primate with tails; often monkeys are depicted as causing havoc the moment they are encountered.
The act of bending at the knees from a standing position. Crouching is an essential part of many shooters and platformers, and can be used by players to stay behind cover or avoid incoming projectiles.
An unbeatable enemy is just that, an enemy you can't beat or destroy. It's best to just run away from them.
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.
Apes are primates that lack tails. They swing from tree to tree and sometimes fling poo. Not to be confused with monkeys (who have tails).
Whenever there's a new Pixar, superhero or Harry Potter movie they have to make one of these.
A stereotypical prehistoric human, usually clad in animal skins and rather violent. Does not always live in a cave.
Drowning in games occurs when a being (not suited to be in water) runs out of oxygen, time, power, or barely even touches the water surface. Further complicated by the local sea-life that can knock the air out of you, should you get close.
The study of and search for remains of human culture and history (or that of other civilizations).
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