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Sure, these days have almost every game sporting the newfangled 3D, but way back when, everyone had to live with plain old 2D. 2D, or two dimensions, limit the game to scrolling backgrounds, but some games even now make use of this basic concept.
8-bit can be a reference to actual computing power, or it can be a retro look for videogames that want to recall a bygone era.
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 deliberate animation of breasts, meant to titillate as a means to conform to more realistic physics.
Games that feature cheerleaders. Whether they be girls with pom-poms or burly Japanese men, they know how to get people motivated.
The Chicago Bears are a professional football team Based in Chicago Illinois.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
The Dallas Cowboys are a football team in the National Football League. They are located in the NFC East Division.
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.
The 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on July 15-17.
The 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 2-4.
In American football, where the kicker attempts to kick the ball through the goal posts. Virtually in all Football games
An individual that plays American Football.
The Green Bay Packers are a professional football team in the NFL.
The possibility for a character to sustain a permanent or temporary injury, thus lowering his abilities.
An instantreplay is a gameplay element typically associated with sports games, and widely made popular with the Madden Franchise. Instant replays allow players to go back and view gameplay footage, occasionally from varying points of view.
NFL team based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The team has been owned by Al Davis since 1963.
The NFL is a professional american football league. It has become the most popular spectator sport in the US.
The New Orleans Saints are an NFL Football team home to New Orleans, Louisiana.
The New York Giants are a football team in the National Football League. They are located in the NFC East Division.
A NosCon (short for Nostalgic Continuity) is a game made with the purpose of appealing to people's nostalgia for the retro gameplay and style of a specific series.
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
Passwords are codes used to save a player's progress, primarily during the 8-bit era and, to a lesser extent, the 16-bit era.
The Philadelphia Eagles are a sports team in the National Football League. They are located in the NFC East Division.
The PlayChoice-10 was an arcade console released by Nintendo containing ten Nintendo Entertainment System games per unit.
Characters in sports games made to resemble real athletes who are not licensed to the game. This may include pro athletes who own their own likenesses (e.g. Michael Jordan) or college athletes.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
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 distribution of power depending on the accuracy of timed button presses.
Games that include real photography on the game's cover.
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