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Chelsea FC are considered one of the top football (soccer) teams in the world, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge football ground in west London. Chelsea are currently FA Cup Champions.
Aston Villa are a Birmingham-based professional football club, founded in 1874 and currently playing in the English Premier League. They are one of most successful clubs in England and were founders of both the Football League (in 1888) and the Premier League (1992).
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, affectionately known to fans as Spurs, is an English professional football club currently playing in the English Premiere League.
Porting is a term used when a game designed to run on one platform is converted to run on a different platform. Quality varies, though some titles are packaged with extras.
Flip screen (or flick-screen) describes a way of dividing the game world into fixed screens, displayed one at a time. It's commonly found in 2D platformers, especially prior to the 16-bit era.
Video games contain a lot of activities for players to do underwater, from exploration to combat. Sometimes games treat water as simple low gravity movement, while other games treat underwater more realistically.
To elude, escape, or get away from. Some games require players to escape from some people or things to perform some objective or avoid death.
Murder is the act of ending the life of another living thing against its will without the sanction of a higher governmental authority, such as the casualties that result from acts of war. It is generally intentional, at least in a legal meaning, but not necessarily.
A form of copy protection using a physical object such as a wheel, manual, or dongle.
Video games that, for better or for worse, are based on an existing non-video game franchise. Usually drawn from movies, tie-in games have also been made about TV shows, novels, and even one-hit wonder pop bands.
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
The Classic NES Series of games were re-released versions of NES games for the GBA. Also known as Famicom Mini and NES Classics in Japan and PAL regions respectively.
Games based on literature. This does not include licenses of another adaptation.
Also known as wushu, Kung Fu is a family of martial arts developed in China.
Enemies that are adamant in their will to hunt you down. Example: Pac-Man ghosts.
The controversial practice of incorporating "access control technology" into digital media so as to limit what owners of that media can do with it, most commonly for the stated purpose of preventing piracy.
Karate is an umbrella term for a wide range of martial arts originating in pre-Japanese Okinawa.
As part of the Switch Online subscription, Nintendo offers a selection of NES games through the downloadable Nintendo Entertainment System application.
Usually due to bugs and glitches, some games cannot be "finished" without the use of unintended modifications.
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.
From Beat-em-ups to fighting games to modern FPS, one dude hitting another has made an enjoyable pastime.
The grues are an adventurer-consuming monster from the Zork series and other Infocom games. They appear in the dark areas of the game and are a major threat to adventurers.
Poker is a card game that uses the traditional 52 playing card deck. It is considered a "mind sport" that combines both luck & skill, as players try to use betting mechanics to outwit their opponents and get the best combination of cards.
Video games that are based on comic books, manga and graphic novels.
This shows you how long you have until you start wishing you had gills. When your breath runs out, you may take damage, or you may expire right there, depending on how sadistic the game designers were!
Bet a little or bet the house. How much you win depends on how much you wager.
Destructible cover is an increasingly popular feature in shooters, even those without cover systems. It is used to encourage creative tactics both in single-player and multiplayer.
Any person that is in an Army.
A trap designed to kill off victims by crushing them. Commonly found in sacred temples though industrial variations (like car crushers) exist.
Vertical scrolling is when the screen scrolls along the y-axis. In a vertical scrolling game the player usually starts from the bottom of the screen and moves up. They are also almost always presented in a top-down perspective.
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