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These games are based off of established licenses, such as movies, comics, or TV shows. Examples are the James Bond 007 and Spider-Man franchises.
Edutainment is a specific category of games designed to teach the player a real-life subject. Whether it be math, history, or English, this game was designed to be used by a teacher or a tutor to make learning more fun!
Games made for a younger audience, usually between 3-9.
Two or more characters are featured on the game's box art.
Animals that have the ability of speech and in some cases are anthropomorphic.
Player characters that are infants, children, or adolescents.
Cartoon characters are personas from cartoons, which are animated moving sequences that are usually drawn but can be computer animated and can come from television, movies, anime or even the web. They can be humans, animals, or even things usually not thought of as living.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
These are games based on toys or toy franchises.
The daughter of a monarch or monarchs.
A classic D&D monster. Salamanders are Outsider creatures from the elemental plane of fire. They resemble fiery snakemen.
Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
The Kraang are a species of inter-dimensional alien based on the Utroms and Krang from previous TMNT incarnations.
Trolls are a mythical race of creatures that have been interpreted many different ways in games.
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).
A superhero is a fictional character of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest.
Games whose titles consist of a single word.
Physical props, clues, or trinkets included within game boxes by Infocom in the 1980s. They were often used to convey in-game information, add value, or as early copy protection.
Creatures that are usually part fish and part human.
Extraterrestrials appear in many video games in a variety of styles. Sometimes they're evil, sometimes they're benevolent, and sometimes they're very similar to humans.
Real world information improved in some way by the inclusion of computer generated data. Typically done using a virtual overlay on a real image.
Bipedal rat-like creatures, common in fantasy games. Prone to trickery and backstabbing, unless they're ninja.
A type of primate with tails; often monkeys are depicted as causing havoc the moment they are encountered.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
Reptiles known for their hard shells.
Wolves are mammals closely related to dogs and are known for howling in moonlit forests and hunting in packs to pester players in numerous RPG games.
Baxter Stockman's Rat Killing Machines
Genetically evolved humans, animals or aliens.
Anthropomorphism is the concept of an object, concept or character that has human qualities or traits, such as speech, a level of intelligence similar or higher than a human's and self consciousness. "Anthro" means "of human" and related to the concept of humanity.
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