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An English professional association soccer club based in Charlton, south-east London.
Primarily found in fighting or sports games, the versus screen typically masks the load time of an upcoming matchup. Sometimes codes may be entered here that will affect the game.
Music speeds up as the time runs out or a particular part of the game gets harder. Found in Street Fighter, Mario games, Sonic games, etc.
While piledrivers, clotheslines, and suplexes might seem at home in wrestling games, many professional wrestling moves have found their way into other video game genres. Brawlers and fighting games are commonly home to these moves, with Mike Haggar's piledriver being a classic example.
Real Madrid are a professional soccer club based in Madrid Spain.
A disembodied voice that narrates or announces certain game aspects, like the round counts in fighting games or instructing the player to select a character.
A professional association soccer club based in the town of Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
The most prominent fighting style in the Street Fighter games. Its devotees include Ryu, Ken, Gouken, Akuma and Gen.
Olympique de Marseille also known as OM or simply Marseille, is a French professional men's soccer club based in Marseille.
General MIDI (also known as GM or GM 1) is a standardized specification for electronic musical instruments that respond to MIDI messages. It is used in the large majority of older DOS and Windows games.
Whether it be for points, speed boosts or just for aesthetic purposes, this game includes fancy tricks that the player can perform.
An Easter Egg is an intentionally hidden cheat or hidden content in a video game, also known as a "secret".
A type of stage themed around, or made entirely out of, food - often confectionery.
A large, male cow. Does the bullfighting thing.
Levels that take place in or on a train or subway.
A playable class in many roleplaying games. Rogues are also sometimes known as Thieves. The class in almost all these games center around their stealth capabilities.
Ranking Systems tally the player's current progress and relative skill, by tracking raw numbers of multiple statistics (like score and time) during a session of gameplay. This results in a competitive meta-game where the goal is usually to reach the top position.
A professional association soccer club based in Coventry, West Midlands, England.
A type of gameplay mechanic, where the objective is to indirectly guide one or multiple entities to safety. Not to be confused with 'Escort Mission'.
The concept of a game referencing another game through mockery, parody or even directly. A game reference to the same franchise does not count.
Games that could be controlled via the PS1 mouse.
Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA is a Belgian professional soccer club based in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital-Region.
Some arcade cabinets have multiple monitors in use, either to display additional information, to have multiple player perspectives on the same machine, or to show a unique "ultra-wide" display.
Robot Ninjas are robots made to be ninjas. They combine the stealth and deadliness of a trained ninja with the precision of machines.
Football Club Dynamo Kyiv is a Ukrainian professional soccer club based in Kyiv.
CSKA Sofia (Bulgarian: ЦСКА София) is a Bulgarian professional association soccer club based in Sofia.
A person leading a double life. Many comic book characters have one and sometimes the plot of their stories is keeping their secret identities a secret.
A page for video game protagonists that are elderly.
In auto racing, standing starts have the cars or go-karts stationary in the starting grid as the race begins. To commence racing in a standing start, a set of red lights is needed before the green one goes off to start the race.
Foreshadowing is a plot device that allows the creators to leave subtle (or not-so-subtle) hints about future events in the game.
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