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Games whose menus feature a book-like motif. Often this is featured in games with a fairy tale—style narrative.
Extra stars that goes to the players based on their performance in the Mario Party franchise. It first appeared in Super Mario World.
We all know that explosions will get you to buy a game. This is why you want stuff blowing up on your game cover!
Need to sneak around unseen? Darken the room by shooting out some lights.
An online digital distribution system for arcade games in Japan.
Occasionally, when some nasty bugger decides to give you a big hug that just seems to last forever, you may want to politely decline by mashing or shaking whatever you are holding in your hands.
You're halfway through the game or more, everything's going great. You've got tons of weapons and crap and BAM! Flash grenade! You wake up later captured, off to either be executed, interrogated, etc. Often, you've lost all of your weapons as well. You sir, have just woken up captured.
Star Power doubles your current score modifier. Activate it by tilting your guitar up or hitting the select button.
An arcade/minigame where the objective is to force popping moles back into their holes by hitting them on the head with a mallet. Games with similar elements of gameplay go here.
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.
The Spike Video Game Awards recognized the best games of 2006.
A person involved in the illegal transportation of goods.
Zoom Platform, or the Zoom Web Store, is a digital distribution service selling DRM free classic games, updated to work on modern computers. The store was launched on September 9, 2014.
Games featuring quotations on their cover, often from well-known game publications that place the game in a positive light.
Law makers and fat cats who will sell the population down the river just to gain more power and money.
A Prodigy is typically a young character who posses skills or intelligence far beyond their age. Some prodigies were born with this talent, while others had to work for it.
The concept that an asteroid may hit a location and effect the player and/or enviorment. In such games as the upcoming Rage from id Tech a Asteroid impact creates the wasteland-esque environment the player expirences the game in.
Any type of lifeform whose species is on the brink of extinction. Important characters being "the last of their kind" was once so common in fiction that it has become a mocked cliche.
After the cancellation of E3 2020 due to COVID-19, E3 returned as a digital-only event taking place from June 12-15.
Using the Red Cross in an entertainment product is expressly forbidden by the Geneva Convention and international law, however some games don't realise that.
Any video game (especially RPGs) that allows the player the opportunity to talk to everyone, from companion characters to minor NPCs to surviving or reformed villains, during its playable epilogue to see what became of them.
Items found in video games that serve little or no use to the player, other than to be sold to NPC vendors for money.
Job systems allow for a user to dictate the role of a game character. Offering the capacity for deep customization and quick adaptability, job systems give players the ability to tailor their own experience.
A visual representation showing the spells or skills collected by the player. This is in reference part of the user interface, not to book objects within a game.
Dragoons, known as Dragon Knights, appear in various Japanese RPGs. Their weapon of choice is usually the spear/lance and they employ the powers of their namesake to either fight alongside or against other Dragons.
Having made an appearance in almost all of the Final Fantasy games, the Bomb is a fearsome-looking creature, resembling a levitating ball of fire with a twisted grin.
Haste is a spell or effect from a worn item that increases ones reaction speed.
A common character archetype of the Final Fantasy series. Most titles in the main series and some spin-offs feature a character named Cid.
Eidolons are summoned creatures commonly found in the Final Fantasy series. They have alternatively been called terms such as Summons, Espers, and Guardian Forces depending on the Final Fantasy universe in question.
A common enemy in the Final Fantasy Series. It's a cat-like beast that has two long whiskers which it uses to cast very powerful magic. Its attack, "Blaster", either paralyzes, petrifies, or instantly kills one or more party members.
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