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Game » consists of 2 releases. Released 1990
Bonus levels, rounds, or stages give players a chance to gain extra points, powerups, or lives. Occasionally bonus stages will play completely different than the rest of the game, like as a slot machine or pinball minigame.
Using pre-rendered clay figures to display environments, characters, and objects. Often used to comedic effect.
Games where you cooperate with other players to accomplish certain goals, yet at the same time compete for power (items) and glory (wealth).
The continue is a classic gaming concept, and usually arises when the player "dies" or fails in the game. Usually some loss is tied to a continue, in a form of a "life" or something of other value.
Cooperative play in games allows humans to play together as a team to accomplish a task. Instead of playing against a human opponent, the team must defeat an AI. Cooperative Play in some games also means 2 human versus 2 human, this occurs in some Billiards games. (Scotch Doubles / Doubles)
Digitized sprites, popularized in the early 90s, were a form of graphics that used footage of real actors, Stop-motion frames of a figure/clay model or 3D renders of characters that were then made digital and put into the game.
These prehistoric behemoths cause chaos amongst many. Unfortunately, they are extinct.
In games, fire can be an obstacle, a tool, a weapon, or a solution. Just don't play with it...unless you really want to.
In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
A Knock out or KO is when, example being a fighting game, one of the players is sent into a state of unconsciousness.
The concept of lives in video games evolved to let the player get a second chance after failing once. The most recognizable symbol is the heart.
Ever since Pac-Man, games have had us navigating mazes.
A place to fall, often bottomless, usually resulting in death.
A portal is a hole in reality connected to another hole in reality, whether magical or scientific in nature, that allows a person to instantly travel incredibly vast distances simply by walking through one.
Power Ups can be used to give the controlling character, or any other character, temporary or permanent upgrades.
Temporarily makes your character or the world around you go faster, either by stepping on an object, activating a power or object, or by collecting a power up. There are many other ways in which a Speed boost can be used and it depends on the game.
The ability to move from one area to another instantaneously - typically through some sort of special power or device.
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