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Bonus levels, rounds, or stages give players a chance to gain extra points, powerups, or lives. Occasionally bonus stages will play completely different than the rest of the game, like as a slot machine or pinball minigame.
Games that became insanely popular also spawned a number of lesser, equally and even more popular games.
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 frog is a small and usually green amphibian that can swim, hop, and ribbit. Sadly, most of them aren't princes.
Never Ending Games is a self-explanatory concept in which a game is unbeatable and never ends, due either to the game having no true ending or because the game is not saved (or truly continued) after the last section of the game.
Games where players are given material to read; this includes books, newspapers, and emails.
Passwords are codes used to save a player's progress, primarily during the 8-bit era and, to a lesser extent, the 16-bit era.
The ultimate pressure feature. Players have to complete the task at hand, be it defeating opponents or cutting the right wire, in the allotted time.
Sometimes, you want to play games with a real person who's sitting right next to you. These games have you covered.
Darkness is used in games to restrict access, increase tension, or just to set a mood. Often the player has access to a light source that can mitigate its effect.
An Unwinnable State occurs either due to a glitch or by designer choice, when the player's actions make it so that the game can no longer be completed. However, the game continues as though it is still possible to finish and win.
Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.
Special codes or button combinations used to gain powers or advantages in a game. Generally hidden.
Games released coinciding with new hardware.
Feline animals commonly kept as pets. There are many different breeds and varieties.
When a game incorporates trivia questions into it, even if it's not a trivia game.
A characteristic present in game characters with a superior state of mind reflected in how they solve problems and their way of approaching situations.
A cloud of fine particles.
When a character from an existing media franchise makes a brief appearance in a video game, sometimes without even openly acknowledging their origins.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
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.
Fireworks are a form of incendiary rocket designed to explode "gently" in bright colours and cause no damage, traditionally set off to mark festive or historic events.
The use of Cyrillic letters to represent visually similar Latin characters, even in cases where the two have completely different pronunciations. Typically done by mixing Cyrillic into an otherwise Latin context.
Some DOS games include a "boss key" or "boss button" that players can hit that displays a fake image of a graph or spreadsheet to make it look like players were working instead of playing a video game.
Players compete against the clock to secure the fastest time possible. This is often added to racing games for extra replay value and typically requires a higher degree of skill.
Games that were removed from one or more Nintendo consoles' eShops.
A handful of games deemed of historical significance have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame every year since 2015.
Game bundled with gaming hardware (usually a console) in order to boost sales. Most often these games are first party titles, meaning that the hardware and software are products of the same company.
Depending on the country, a song enters public domain after a certain number of years after release or after the death of the writer. In the United States, it is 95 years after release.
An umbrella term for any sexual orientation or gender identity that is not straight.
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