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These are games based on toys or toy franchises.
Because you'd never expect a banana to be an undercover cluster grenade.
Potentially deadly in the real world, annoying and funny in the animated world.
Sometime companies include the name of a company in a title. Usually it's their own, but they have been known to shill for others.
A fictional currency is one where the object being exchanged does not exist in the real world, such as Final Fantasy's Gil, or are not used for exchange in the real world, such as Fallout's bottlecaps.
A line that signals the start or the end of the race. Even though it is used for racing, it could mean any type of racing game.
These spooky entities are the spirits of the dead, returned from beyond their graves for generally sinister purposes. There's generally about even odds whether a particular ghost will be helpful or malevolent towards the living, but some ghosts just want to be left alone entirely.
In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
Take an item and throw it at the enemy.
Games made for a younger audience, usually between 3-9.
A lap is one circuit around a race track. This is featured in many, but not all racing games.
The small models within the Lego franchise which represent people. They appear almost in every Lego game.
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.
A stylistic choice of employing small polygon counts for meshes.
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!
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.
In auto racing, standing starts have the cars or go-karts stationary in the starting grid as the race begins. To commence racing in a standing start, a set of red lights is needed before the green one goes off to start the race.
Video games that, for better or for worse, are based on an existing non-video game franchise. Usually drawn from movies, tie-in games have also been made about TV shows, novels, and even one-hit wonder pop bands.
The building/editing of vehicles, mechs, and the like.
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