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The rain forest jungle found spanning a great swath of South America, the Amazon is home to many plants, animals, and warrior women. Welcome to the Jungle.
Asia is the largest continent in the world, it spans from part of the Soviet Union all the way down to Indonesia. It goes from Japan to the Middle East.
A place to buy alcoholic beverages and to mingle/meet with non player characters. Bars in games are sometimes essential to advance the plot, or recruit party members. Bars are the modern equivalents of taverns. You see taverns in fantasy games and bars in modern/sci-fi games.
A room which is devoted entirely to hygiene, containing a toilet and sometimes a sink. Residential bathrooms typically have a shower or bathtub.
An island located in Southeast Asia. It is the third largest island in the world.
A country in South America.
England is on the island of Great Britain, a set of Islands in the Northwestern part of Europe. Its capital city is London. It was an independent kingdom until May 1707, when it formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Scotland.
One of the traditional seven continents, Europe is a favorite source of video game settings. In the real world, European countries have produced a host of notable developers and publishers, and compose a large gaming market.
France is a republic in Western Europe. Its capital city is Paris. It is also the origin of the baguette.
The Himalayas are an extensive mountain range that runs east from Pakistan through Nepal and separates India and China. It is home to the two tallest mountains on Earth: Mount Everest and K2.
A place where the player can rent a bed/room for the night, or cause trouble. Hotels are distinct locations in games where the player goes to restore their health, save the game, cure status effects, or even to advance the plot and/or level. Also called Inns in some games.
A Southeast Asian country in the Malay Archipelago.
The legendary lost city in the Rub'al Khali desert, the area around the Arabian Peninsula. It's also known as "Atlantis of the Sands", a term coined by T. E. Lawrence.
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey. Although not the capital, it's still a significant metropolitan area with over 14 million citizens. It's considered to be the bridge between Asia and Europe because crossing the bosphorus bridge literally takes you from one continent to another
Italy is a republic on the Appenine Peninsula in Southern Europe. Its cusine has given the world pasta and pizza. Mario, one of the most famous video game characters, is of Italian-American origin.
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight...
London is the capital city in United Kingdom, and home to many great landmarks including Big Ben, the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge to name a few. It was also the host city of the Olympic Summer Games in 1908, 1948 and 2012. For the 2012 comeptitions, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games was developed.
A state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.
Madagascar is an island nation in southeast Africa.
The Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa.
Where the wonders of the natural world, history, great art, and scientific endeavor can be appreciated by the layperson. Or someone can get shot in the face, depending on the game.
Games that involve islands that hold strange secrets.
Nepal is a landlocked country in southern Asia, between China and India.
Located in Louisiana, USA. Known for high strangeness.
The third-largest continent in the world.
A transcontinental country in Central America and South America.
A complex of branching railway lines and other infrastructure where rail operators switch and store rail cars.
Translates to The Empty Quarter. It is one of the largest sand deserts in the world. Covering 650,000 square kilometres (250,000 sq miles) of the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula.
Saudi Arabia is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East. It is known for its oil industry.
A country situated north of England and part of the United Kingdom. Producers of the soft drink Irn Bru and home of such game developers as Rockstar North, Realtime Worlds and 4J Studios. It was an independent kingdom until May 1707, when it formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with England.
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