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A Symbol that belongs to a character and an award for doing a great deed.
When a game lets players grab enemies and throw them as projectiles. Commonly found in platformers, but also sometimes found in over-the-top 3rd person action games.
Luigi is Playable in BS Excitebike Bun Bun Mario Stadium
An ability that people use to bring back or return someone/something to thier original state.
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.
The ability to create, shape, and control fire at will. This is a common and well known power in fiction, its appearance dating back to ancient literature.
In the Mario Party and Mario Kart games, as well as several others, Luigi can both flatten characters and be flattened by them. He is also flat by default in the Paper Mario games.
The ability for an athlete or character, especially in extreme sports or platforming games, to rotate their bodies in a frontal or backward motion, creating inertia that propels them into a flipping motion.
The character kicks his feet while he jumps to increase horizontal movement.
Weapons that use a freezing effect to damage opponents, slow them up, or freeze them solid.
Wii games that can be played using a GameCube controller.
The ability to move over smaller gaps, given sufficient speed. Seen in may old-school platformers.
Spectral scourges and festering phantasms beware, these heroes aim to clear out the harmful haunts of our humble homes.
A form of racing designed to test the car and driver's skill and endurance. It evolved into closed circuit racing like modern Formula 1 and MotoGP. Even the Mario Kart series has it.
Games featuring guests introduce playable, established characters from outside of a franchise. Primarily but not exclusively seen in fighting games.
Taunts that may cause damage to people or property.
Havok Physics (Havok) is a physics API developed by Irish company Havok and released in 2000. It is used in video games as a physics engine, allowing for realistic interactions between in-game entities.
Special or stronger units than standard ones, usually found in strategy games. This is not necessarily the same thing as a superhero or a game's protagonist.
A minor enemy in the Mario franchise, most notably appearing in Super Mario Bros. 2.
Codenamed "Canada's Game", Hockey is a game played by two opposing teams on a sheet of ice with the objective of scoring the most goals with a rubber puck. Players use wood or composite hockey sticks to put the puck in the net.
Skating on ice.
An Iconic concept of video games is the use of an idle animation for the players character, when during gameplay there's no control given. It's an example of emergent game design, and is used as a way to add depth to action characters.
Some dogs just never get their day. Characters like this always seem to get shown up no matter what the occasion may be.
Inflation is when you expand or fill up something with something else, usually air, to make it more full or bigger. Some mini-games have you be the first to completely inflate a balloon, or, in the case of Dig-Dug, you inflate monsters to have them explode!
Characters who speak with an Italian flavoured accent, usually second generation immigrants.
Take an item and throw it at the enemy.
Jigglypuff is a normal type Pokémon that evolves from Igglybuff, and can into Wigglytuff with a Moon Stone. They love to sing.
Kart racers are cartoon-like racing games that often feature fantastical power-ups.
A lap is one circuit around a race track. This is featured in many, but not all racing games.
Characters who possess the ability to "fly", but only for a limited time or by gradually descending.
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