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Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Dec 21, 1997
Nintendo 64 classics made available to subscribers of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack.
Some games feature protagonists that are not humanoid in nature. These are creatures that do not have human characteristics (i.e. stand on 2 legs, have 2 arms, a body and a head).
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
Parallax scrolling is a scrolling effect used in video game graphics, employing multiple scrolling layers to create the illusion of depth, for a pseudo-3D effect in an otherwise 2D scrolling game.
Piranha Pests are a unique type of Piranha Plant that appear in Yoshi's Story and Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time
A species of carnivorous plants that reside in pipes. Some specimens can spit fireballs.
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!
Games that used 3D polygonal renders of CGI characters/objects for it's sprites and graphics.
Reptilian humanoids are a common motif in mythology, folklore and fantasy. As a race, they are sometimes cited to be extremely old, even older than men and elves. Examples: Lizalfos (Zelda), Lizardmen (Warhammer) & Argonians (The Elder Scrolls) They generally walk upright like any other humanoid and sport some kind of tail.
Retroachievements is a community created and curated site that adds Achievements and Online Leaderboards for supported emulators and platforms like Raspberry Pi
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A creature which is made up of mostly identical segments and has an elongated shape.
Shy Guys are masked hoodlums of the Mushroom Universe.
Side-scrolling games present the world as viewed perpendicular to the direction the characters are facing on screen. With a heavy focus on lateral movement, objectives are often met by moving from one end of a stage to the other.
A two-dimensional image or animation overlaid into a scene. The foundation of early 2D games, making up everything from props to the player-controlled character.
A technology demonstration is a display of a product or application intended to demonstrate the technical capabilities of the platform running that software.
Games whose main character is so egotistical that the whole game just HAS to be named after them.
Characters that fight with their tongues - often this involves characters with long, extendible tongues.
Totaka's Song is a hidden easter egg in a number of Nintendo's games dating back to the early 1990s. It can typically be accessed by waiting for a set period of time at a specific place.
A dragon that has been resurrected after death. Undead Dragons are often weaker but more terrifying than their living counterparts.
Vertical scrolling is when the screen scrolls along the y-axis. In a vertical scrolling game the player usually starts from the bottom of the screen and moves up. They are also almost always presented in a top-down perspective.
A video game protagonist's enemies come from more than just the Animal and Mineral kingdoms. P-O'd plants have been battled by everyone from plumbers to the undead.
The Virtual Console is a platform service that first appeared on Nintendo's Wii and later on the 3DS and Wii U. Games from past consoles are emulated to run on the new hardware with the added benefits of system-level save states and other features.
Wigglers are enemies that look like caterpillars. They first appeared in Super Mario World, where if Mario, Luigi, or Yoshi jumped on it, the Wiggler would turn red and start running fast, as well as being able to move in the character's direction.
A bipedal dinosaur species known for its great appetite and egg-laying abilities.
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