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The number one choice for video game characters who need to travel across large distances.
The beam sword is a melee weapon found in a multitude of games, shows, and movies. Is typically found in sci-fi and fantasy settings.
The most common weapon in the Star Wars universe and a staple weapon for most sci-fi games.
A bomb is an explosive device.
A weapon or tool that can be thrown and then returned to the user.
A toy usually obtained from a vending machine. The toy itself is enclosed in a plastic capsule. Referred to as 'Gashapon' in Japanese.
A computer is a common object in video games. They can be used for many purposes; to trigger objects - such as a lift or a bomb, gather information, or even to play games.
Crystals come in many varieties, although typically they're somehow magical in games. Especially central to the Final Fantasy franchise.
A machine designed with the purpose of moving objects or characters vertically.
Exoskeletons are artificial body suits that enable the wearer with inhuman strength, enhanced durability, and other superior capabilities that would be impossible to obtain otherwise.
A ball of hot flickering fire. Usually thrown from the hero's hand into the squealing face of the enemy.
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.
Whether it's worn for protection or style, helmets appear in various game genres.
A homing missile is a missile that locks on to and follows its target. Homing missiles are featured in lots of games, from old school to new school.
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.
An elegant weapon for a more civilized age. A Jedi or Sith is rarely caught without one.
Machine guns, generally, are heavier weapons with a rapid rate of fire. To quote the Quake manual, they "eat ammo like popcorn."
A magnet is something, usually in a bar or horseshoe shape, that is attracted to and can, if strong enough, pull in metallic things via the force of magnetism. Video games may be a bit more liberal in what a magnet can attract and how powerful it is.
Mechs (or Mecha) are humanoid-like pilot driven vehicles often depicted in media as a combat machine. Early examples of Mech/Mecha in video games are often derived from early manga and anime as well as table-top games.
Mega Man and Mega Man X's weapon of choice.
A mechanical lifeform, typically exhibiting superhuman abilities, that can be found in games as either the main protaganist or as powerful enemies or allies.
Rocks are the hard objects found randomly scattered across the ground all over the Earth's surface. They're not good for much more than smashing stuff or being made into other things. Handily crushes Scissors but cannot defeat the mighty Paper.
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.
dont drive over that...
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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