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A common type of stage based around the fire and/or lava element. Often platforming heavy and inhabited by fire-based enemies.
Characters or species of living eyes, often giant.
A stylistic choice of employing small polygon counts for meshes.
A mascot is an iconic character heavily used in the advertising and marketing of a product, franchise, business, or company. Notable mascots include Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ulala, Mickey Mouse, and the Big Daddies.
From Beat-em-ups to fighting games to modern FPS, one dude hitting another has made an enjoyable pastime.
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!
A movie reference in a game, is where a game references a film. This can be done in many different ways.
Platforms conveniently moving you towards your destination to allow the crossing of large expanses which would otherwise be impossible to cross.
Two or more characters are featured on the game's box art.
Multiple endings is a term used to describe different outcomes or conclusions to a game based on the previous actions of the player.
A recurring enemy in the Kirby series.
N-Z or NZ is the most common foe in Kirby 64.
Nintendo 64 classics made available to subscribers of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
Black-and-white predators of the sea. Despite being colloquially called killer whales, these marine mammals are actually dolphins.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
Penguins are flightless birds that are found in usually cold areas; they have appear in several videogames, notably the Club Penguin franchise.
A form of level transition, mainly used in the early 90's. The act of travelling from one planet to another.
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.
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!
Retroachievements is a community created and curated site that adds Achievements and Online Leaderboards for supported emulators and platforms like Raspberry Pi
Scarfy is a floating enemy from the Kirby Series. It mutates into a more threatening form if Kirby attempts to inhale it.
The ability to change shape. Humans shifting into animals is the most common type of shape shifting.
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.
A lead character who never says a word, despite being spoken to.
When a character grabs a ladder and slides down it instead of climbing down.
A mode in the game, often an unlockable, allowing players to listen to individual music tracks, voice clips and/or sound effects.
Games whose main character is ball-shaped, sometimes with a face and/or hands/feet, but mostly just spherical.
A boss that doesn't move around during battle. It will instead use other means to "reach" the player.
Characters that fight with their tongues - often this involves characters with long, extendible tongues.
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