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Game » consists of 16 releases. Released Dec 01, 1995
Sliding on one's knees. Can be used to slide under objects. A variant of this is power sliding, which can be used to tactically escape a sticky situation, dodge enemy fire, or decrease range effectively to the enemy.
Games that allow the player to choose which level to play next, rather than a fixed linear order.
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
Maverick (Irregular in Japan) is the name given to Reploids that for one reason or another become a threat to humans.
A page dedicated to the art of making someone else's mech one's own.
An enemy that appeared in almost every Mega Man game made. Met is the Mega Man series's answer to the Dragon Quest series's blue Slime.
Platforms conveniently moving you towards your destination to allow the crossing of large expanses which would otherwise be impossible to cross.
Multiple endings is a term used to describe different outcomes or conclusions to a game based on the previous actions of the player.
Sometimes one playable character just isn't enough.
An optional boss is a boss whose defeat is not essential to the plot and can be avoided. In some cases, they are stronger than the game's final boss.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
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.
Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.
A cutscene or conversation that appears after, or during, the credits -- usually as a means to deliver a cliffhanger and/or plot twist.
Human-like androids capable of free will in the Mega Man X series onwards. They later begin to integrate and evolve with humans until both races become indistingushable.
Retroachievements is a community created and curated site that adds Achievements and Online Leaderboards for supported emulators and platforms like Raspberry Pi
Rhinoceros, or rhinos,are large, four legged, thick skinned, horned mammals of Africa. Thought to be head strong and tough.
If a person is made of metal and has circuitry instead of a circulatory system, then their game belongs on this list.
When the player character is a robot. This does any form of humans infused with robotics.
A term used to describe the flow of action in a typical action game, where the pace is pre-defined to feature fast action and require quick reflexes. As the name suggests, these are games where the player character can run and shoot at the same time.
A sequel (also called a follow-up) is a game that carries forward the gameplay concepts, and often the story, of a previous game to which it is officially linked.
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 game that takes gameplay mechanics, characters, or story elements from an existing series in a separate and different direction, sometimes changing genres along the way.
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.
Metroid, Mega Man, Earthworm Jim, Metal Gear, Halo, Crysis, Iron Man, and many more. Ordinary men and women who become extra-ordinary with the right suit on.
What lies ahead, and is distant from the present.
Games whose main character is so egotistical that the whole game just HAS to be named after them.
Some bosses transition through two or more forms during the course of a fight. Each form has its own abilities and health separate from those of other forms.
Video games contain a lot of activities for players to do underwater, from exploration to combat. Sometimes games treat water as simple low gravity movement, while other games treat underwater more realistically.
Weapons can often be upgraded with new attachments, augmentations, or magical enchantments. These upgrades result in the original item being more powerful than originally intended.
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