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Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Dec 23, 1992
A common type of stage featured in many games. Slippery ice, avalanches, and freezing water are some of the unpleasantries to be had when visiting these cold arctic regions.
An infinite resource spot is an area that allows the player to obtain an unlimited amount of a particular resource such as health, ammunition, money, or energy.
Jellyfish are ocean dwelling animals with a mushroom like top and tentacle like cilia on the bottom. They can be translucent or transparent.
Games released coinciding with new hardware.
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
Big flat fish. You find them in tropical waters, typically around coral reefs.
Ever since Pac-Man, games have had us navigating mazes.
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).
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
OnLive was a cloud gaming service offering video game streaming through a user's computer, smartphone, or TV.
Black-and-white predators of the sea. Despite being colloquially called killer whales, these marine mammals are actually dolphins.
A Palette Swap is when two or more characters share the same style sprite or character model with only minor color or cosmetic changes. Although visually similar, palette swap characters may have very different moves and personalities.
Pixel art refers to digital images composed of visible pixels, drawn with individual pixel-level intent and precision.
Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.
Referencing a TV show, celebrity, song, trend, historical event, etc. is one of the easiest ways to get a laugh. This can be either a throw-away gag, like the name of an achievement, or the main subject of the game.
A flying reptile. Although mistaken for dinosaurs, they are very much not dinosaurs.
When you're able to push a block you know it's a videogame. Usually used to solve puzzles.
QSound is a recording/mixing process used in many audio recordings based on a processing algorithm and used to make sound appear to be in 3D whilst using only 2 speakers.
Special locations in game that allow the player to manually save their progress.
Small marine fish that have a horselike head and swim in upright position.
The first subscription based video game serviced offered through your cable company.
Genesis/Mega Drive classics made available to subscribers of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack.
The shark is an underwater animal that is often stereotyped for its vicious killing of prey. In video games, they are used as enemies in underwater levels or a plot device used to keep the player away from the ocean.
Side-scrolling games present the world as viewed perpendicular to the direction the characters are facing on screen. With a heavy focus on lateral movement, objectives are often met by moving from one end of a stage to the other.
Needs a cheat code to access the sound test.
A two-dimensional image or animation overlaid into a scene. The foundation of early 2D games, making up everything from props to the player-controlled character.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
3D Stereoscopy is the use of two images generated from slightly different angles in order to create a 3D effect. This usually requires the use of 3D glasses to separate the left/right image for each eye.
Subtitled Silence is when a character remains silent in a section of dialogue and a subtitle box appears usually having an ellipsis (...) or nothing at all. Most common in J-RPGs and dating sims. The character can also make a small moan or grunt.
The product of sine wave motions, turned out to be one of the more empowering swimming mechanics of the 16-bit era, Ecco could move and was a joy to control.
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