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As opposed to air-cushion hovercraft, this hovercraft floats freely in the air.
A container that is often used to supply players with a certain amount of ammunition.
The most common weapon in the Star Wars universe and a staple weapon for most sci-fi games.
A large rock that sometimes falls from the sky.
Buggy
Magic spell that can hit multiple foes. It usually homes in on the closest enemy, dishing out additional damage to potential nearby targets.
Crates sometimes contain things!
A popular weapon that is used in many shooters. The flamethrower is considered one of the most unique ways to defeat a foe.
Goggles are used to protect the user's eyes.
Considered one of the most frequent and controversial implements of destruction in video games and real life, guns are devices that fire projectiles with explosive force.
A hovering board, the sci-fi equivalent of a Skateboard.
A laser is a focused beam of light, invisible through the air without some other medium (such as smoke) to illuminate it. Lasers are often used in video games as part of a targeting system, or as an offensive weapon in their own right.
Lava is molten rock, usually from the interior of a planet, and in games is often used as a hazard to players, or as a visible gameplay-area boundary.
Used to turn wind or water energy into useable mechanical work.
The primary weapon used by Jak in Jak II and Jak 3, this gun can be customised and modified using various add-ons
The Plasma Gun launches plasma by using controlled magnetic fields. Plasma weaponry is used throughout the Imperium despite the possibility of the weapon overheating and killing the plasma gunner.
It gives meaning to gravity in 2 dimensions. There is no other object which so defines Games as separate from every other pursuit. Where else does one encounter a platform but from the bounds of a video screen? ...except for delivery men.
Power Cells are the main object to collect in Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. They energize objects necessary for progression.
A collectable in the Jak and Daxter franchise.
Seen in Super Smash Bros Melee among others.
An explosive ordinance propelled by a chemical reaction that causes a controlled explosion resulting in thrust. Rockets are usually "dumb" weapons, meaning that they are not guided. Rockets are the most powerful projectile in many games.
A weapon that launches rockets.
Sand is a fine, granular material composed mainly of rock and mineral, primarily silica. Sand is the primary environment of many games with settings that include deserts, beaches, and the ocean floor, among many others.
The most powerful weapon at short range. Effective against Zombies, Nazis, Demons, etc. Videogame shotguns tend to have exaggerated inaccuracy at long range- real life shotguns are still fairly accurate over a decent distance, while videogame shotguns rarely go more than fifteen feet before becoming completely ineffective.
Spikes are dangerous and often deadly obstacles that can line the floor, walls, or ceiling of any given room or passageway. They are an extremely common form of environmental hazard, particularly in side-scrolling games.
Pick up this useful powerup and spread your fire across a large portion of the screen in a wide arc!
Usually a Button, lever, or computerized scanner used to open, close, power on, turn on, or unlock something. Found common in most games that involve puzzle solving as well as shooters.
Whoever built, discovered or reverse-engineered them, teleporters get you where you want to go immediately. Hopefully without materializing you halfway into a wall.
A gun turret is weapon mount designed to protect the user or mechanisms of a weapon system. The weapon itself is not a turret, but rather the protective housing of the user or mechanisms of the weapon system.
Even though water in games tends to bring about death, we all still hold it near and dear to us. After all, the human body is comprised mostly of it.
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