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Joke characters are characters in video games that provide humor, and are often parodies of characters from other games, or parodies of famous celebrities.
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.
Koalas (Phascolarctos cinerus) are herbivorous, arboreal marsupials endemic to the coastal regions of eastern and southern Australia. Their diet consists almost exclusively of eucalyptus leaves.
A talking head is a floating disembodied head that appears to address either you, the player, or the main character.
Loading Screens are specific screens that are displayed while a game is loading resources so that the player has something to distract them while the game loads. Loading Screens can be images, text or even mini-games - and sometimes a combination of all three.
A stylistic choice of employing small polygon counts for meshes.
They may be good or evil, but mad scientists are always performing experiments that are on the outer fringes of science. Ever since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, they've been in the scene.
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
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!
Platforms conveniently moving you towards your destination to allow the crossing of large expanses which would otherwise be impossible to cross.
When a game has several playable characters of different species, real or fictional.
A boss fight in which the player must not only battle the actual boss, but must also defeat or defend against auxiliary enemies.
Several different game types like driving, shooting, and platforming in one cohesive game. Compilation releases don't count.
Sometimes one playable character just isn't enough.
Some games feature protagonists that are not humanoid in nature. These are creatures that do not have human characteristics (i.e. stand on 2 legs, have 2 arms, a body and a head).
Despite it being mathematically impossible, some games allow players to go beyond 100% completion.
Games that are arguably the most fun in a "party" scenario with multiple players in one room.
Non-pinball games featuring a level or stage that greatly resembles the interior of a pinball machine.
Eleven Collectors' Edition bundles were released for PlayStation in the NTSC-U/C Region between 2002 and 2004. Marketed with the white PlayStation banner on the left, these compilations featured three games from a respective franchise.
PlayStation Underground was a CD magazine published by Sony for the original PlayStation from 1997 to 2001. Each of the 17 issues included demos, video interviews, behind the scenes content, and much more.
The world's largest land-bound carnivore, a bear species native to the lands around the Arctic Ocean. Known to occasionally wear speedos and sunglasses.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Power Ups can be used to give the controlling character, or any other character, temporary or permanent upgrades.
PSone Classics are titles that were initially released for the original PlayStation, and re-released digitally for later PlayStation hardware.
If a person is made of metal and has circuitry instead of a circulatory system, then their game belongs on this list.
Not all scientists are mad and/or hell-bent on dominating worlds. Some are just your ordinary egghead with a coat.
A blob consisting of some icky substance, the slime monster is one of the most used RPG monster clichés besides rats.
A move used in a lot of games where the standing/moving attacker spins upon himself, damaging the surrounding enemies.
A game that takes gameplay mechanics, characters, or story elements from an existing series in a separate and different direction, sometimes changing genres along the way.
Damaging enemies by simply jumping on top of them.
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