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Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Jul 01, 1980
Atari 5200 Games that supported the Trakball
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.
In the Atari 2600 version, there is a way to get the programmer's initials on the 13th screen.
A level that is impossible or nearly impossible to complete because of a programming error or oversight. Often times the screen number is a power of 2 or 10.
A leaderboard is a way for players of any multi-player game to know where they rank within the game's community.
Never Ending Games is a self-explanatory concept in which a game is unbeatable and never ends, due either to the game having no true ending or because the game is not saved (or truly continued) after the last section of the game.
Any game that does not have any written or spoken dialogue in it, regardless if it has characters or not. This includes any text or recorded dialogue that is spoken by a character or narrator, but not text such as "Press Start".
These are games you don't need a console to play. You plug in a controller to the TV and you're ready to play.
Porting is a term used when a game designed to run on one platform is converted to run on a different platform. Quality varies, though some titles are packaged with extras.
Mostly dedicated to portable platforms like the Game Boy, the platform's hardware did not include built-in rumble feature. Game developers included the hardware needed for the vibration directly on the game's cartridge, often times requiring a dedicated battery as well.
A level in which everything is displayed on-screen at once, with no scrolling, flip screen, or 3D movement. Many '80s games consist entirely of single-screen levels.
Games that conclude with a screen displaying "The End" or a variation thereof, such as "Fin."
Trackballs were often used in arcade games. You spin them.
Xbox 360 and original Xbox games that have been approved to run on the Xbox One's backwards compatibility feature.
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