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Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax, also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or simply Ajax, is a Dutch professional soccer club based in Amsterdam,
Associazione Calcio Milan commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional soccer club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899.
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.
Combat based on organic (or similarly functioning) mounts. This can include melee or ranged attacks from horseback.
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.
Malmö Fotbollförening, commonly known as Malmö FF, Malmö, or MFF, is a professional football club and the most successful soccer club in Sweden in terms of trophies won.
Games that feature car accidents as important story points or dramatic events. This concept does not refer to car accidents that can occur as an incidental result of gameplay, such as in racing games.
Reloading is the action of replacing the ammunition magazine inside a gun. It adds a touch of realism to most modern shooters, and a certain amount of tension when a player is forced to reload while under fire.
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.
A broad spectrum of games can be described as remakes, from straightforward graphical overhauls to extensive revision of gameplay and story elements. In the most basic sense, a remake keeps the original's core gameplay and plot but makes significant changes to peripheral aspects.
Games that could be controlled via the PS1 mouse.
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.
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.
Apple's Game Center service brings matchmaking, achievements, and friend lists to games that choose to support it.
An environmental hazard that can be exploited to inflict massive areal damage, exploding barrels are one of the most ubiquitous objects to be found in games. The most common methods of ignition include shooting and throwing. Exploding barrels are usually distinguished from the non-exploding kind by a conspicuous red tint.
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.
A large, male cow. Does the bullfighting thing.
Air moving with a considerable force. It's important to take wind into consideration when playing golf.
Aftertouch is a technique where the player is able to manipulate the path of an object that they would realistically have no control of, such as a fired bullet or a crashing car.
Released games which have versions or DLCs that became lost media. Sometimes the entire game became lost.
An evil organization is a group of super-villans who are hell bent on world domination or something of a similar nature. Usually defeated by a single Spy/Superhero/Average Joe/small child.
A concept where players have the ability to conceal themselves from enemies. Common hiding places in games include closets, lockers, or even just crouching in the shadows.
Some games go the extra mile and display a newspaper article to inform the player that their game is officially over.
For games that have either wholly or partly Japanese title names.
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