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A specific phrase that gets attached to a specific character, something they are known for saying.
The NBA is North America's highest level of professional basketball.
A professional and amateur sport, played world-wide, in which two teams advance a ball up and down a court in order to score "field goals," by throwing the ball through a basket or hoop. The team with the highest score at the end of timed play wins.
Seattle's NBA team, with over 40 years of history in the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle Sonics are owners of one NBA Championship. Now relocated to Oklahoma as the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA.
The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA.
Hidden characters appear only when certain conditions are met. Finding them usually requires great skill.
The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team that competes in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the NBA. They currently have 16 NBA Championships, the second most in the league, 32 Conference titles, the most in the league, and 23 Division titles. Notable Lakers include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant.
The San Antonio Spurs are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA.
The Portland Trailblazers are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA. They are a member of the Northwest division of the NBA.
A position in basketball. The shooting guard is usually a perimeter offensive weapon and secondary ball-handler.
An upgrade, in video games, is a practice in which a new release of a game built on the same engine with the same mechanics is produced, but does not completely qualify for a sequel. However, the content difference is significant enough that it is not considered a re-release, either.
A boxer is someone who participates in the sport of boxing.
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, commonly refers to the programmed behaviors of NPCs in a game, whether it's the fact that a soldier takes cover behind a wall in Gears of War, or that townspeople cheer upon your arrival to their village in Fable.
The "Physical" objects in a game world. All objects which a player can collide with, or interact with through game physics, consists of geometry.
A ring out occurs when a character leaves a stage (mostly due to falling off stage because of being forced by opponent or bad timing) and automatically loses round/match. This is a common concept in fighting games.
Characters who are influenced and clearly modeled after the late Jeet Kune Do Master, Bruce Lee.
Jeet Kune Do is a martial arts ideology created by Bruce Lee. This ideology can be seen in video games, often by those who combine different martial arts.
A Japanese term adopted by fight game enthusiasts, referring to the situation where one player is down (laying on the ground), or getting up from a laying position, and the standing player attempts to keep their advantage. Although the concept is generally associated with 3D fight games, it can also be seen in 2D ones (i.e. throwing a fireball which the opponent will get-up into).
SNK fighting games are notorious for boss fights of ludicrous difficulty. Common symptoms of SNK Boss Syndrome include absurdly high attack priority, overpowered special attacks, and AIs that read button inputs. Though it's most common in SNK games, the syndrome has also appeared in games by other companies.
Some characters get drunk off of alcohol - often this is portrayed with blurred vision, impaired movement, or slurred speech.
Some games force you to try and survive as long as possible without losing, or tasks you with surviving a certain number of "waves" of enemies before granting you victory.
The Izuna Drop's origin began in the 1969 manga called Ninpu Kamui Gaiden OP (The Legend of Kamui). Kamui learned this move from watching weasels leap from trees and attack birds. Many fictional ninja and/or video game characters use Kamui's move to this day, such as Vega (Street Fighter), Ryu Hayabusa (Dead or Alive / Ninja Gaiden), and Kage-Maru (Virtua Fighter).
In some action oriented videogames, the player is able to launch enemies into the air, and can sometimes proceed with follow-up attacks.
These games were popular enough to warrant an anime, whether it was a full television series, an OVA (original video animation), or a feature-length movie.
Games that make records. Often records like most played game, or critically acclaimed. There have been gaming records since the says of Pong and the Magnavox Oddysey.
While piledrivers, clotheslines, and suplexes might seem at home in wrestling games, many professional wrestling moves have found their way into other video game genres. Brawlers and fighting games are commonly home to these moves, with Mike Haggar's piledriver being a classic example.
Games that have had television shows based on them.
A gynoid, or fembot, is a feminine humanoid robot.
Sometimes, you want to play games with a real person who's sitting right next to you. These games have you covered.
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