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The All-Cup Tour is a special tour that allows you to play all 16 courses at once in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! You start out at Luigi Circuit and work your way around the tour to the last course, Rainbow Road.
Amiibo is Nintendo's NFC figurine and card program that works across multiple games. Amiibo work natively with the Nintendo Wii U via the NFC reader in the Wii U GamePad and the New Nintendo 3DS. In 2015, Nintendo will release an accessory for the original Nintendo 3DS that lets players use Amiibo on it as well.
A protagonist who lacks some or all of the qualities traditionally seen as heroic.
Anytime an ally comes in to help you in any way. This mechanic is most common in fighting games.
In video games, breaking the fourth wall occurs when a game becomes aware of its nature as a game, or when a character directly acknowledges the player.
Some games allow you to attack your opponents during a race.
When two or more players work together to control a vehicle.
A peripheral for the Game Boy Advance that allowed players to scan in cards for extras in various games, or even to play classic NES games.
A Symbol that belongs to a character and an award for doing a great deed.
Many video game villains oftentimes laugh in evil ways, be it a vicious cackle, a sneering chuckle, or a booming laugh. Common evil laughs often include "Bwa-ha-ha", "Mwa-ha-ha", or "Ho ho ho".
Mustaches are often found on the evil villain of cartoons to let the audience know just how evil they are, or used in parody of them.
A dark version of a game's hero, featuring many of the same powers. Usually wears black. Male evil twins often have goatees.
A line that signals the start or the end of the race. Even though it is used for racing, it could mean any type of racing game.
In several Mario spinoffs, Waluigi can both flatten characters and be flattened by them.
Wii games that can be played using a GameCube controller.
A form of racing designed to test the car and driver's skill and endurance. It evolved into closed circuit racing like modern Formula 1 and MotoGP. Even the Mario Kart series has it.
Take an item and throw it at the enemy.
Kart racers are cartoon-like racing games that often feature fantastical power-ups.
A lap is one circuit around a race track. This is featured in many, but not all racing games.
Games that feature an antagonist--someone who opposes the game's protagonist--that is a man.
Sports games that feature pre-existing videogame characters, rather than real athletes.
From Beat-em-ups to fighting games to modern FPS, one dude hitting another has made an enjoyable pastime.
When the President wants to go for a burger, you know that all your cake is a lie.
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
A partner is someone in a duo that shares the same status and/or billing. In video games, you often switch from one to the other because they have different strengths and weaknesses.
Games that are arguably the most fun in a "party" scenario with multiple players in one room.
Enemies that are adamant in their will to hunt you down. Example: Pac-Man ghosts.
Third-party developers and publishers occasionally engage in the practice of releasing a title or piece of DLC on only one platform for any number of reasons. Sometimes these are permanent while others are only platform exclusive for a certain window of time.
Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.
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