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Game » consists of 16 releases. Released October 1989
Sure, these days have almost every game sporting the newfangled 3D, but way back when, everyone had to live with plain old 2D. 2D, or two dimensions, limit the game to scrolling backgrounds, but some games even now make use of this basic concept.
On the back of the SNES North American retail box
When a character from an existing media franchise makes a brief appearance in a video game, sometimes without even openly acknowledging their origins.
The concept of building a single city and its respective houses/institutions (e.g. Sim City) or building cities as part of an extending empire (e.g. Civilization).
Currency has all forms in video games. It is used to buy characters, vehicles, weapons, and more.
Games that include a simulated economy which the player(s) can affect.
A fictional currency is one where the object being exchanged does not exist in the real world, such as Final Fantasy's Gil, or are not used for exchange in the real world, such as Fallout's bottlecaps.
Games in which fire can spread continuously across the environment or between objects.
Freeware games are those which have their full versions legally free to download or otherwise obtain.
What is the fifth word of the third paragraph on page 17?
The art of a game developer to use their instruction manual as a pass key to ward off piracy. This included making books or flyers inside that were impossible to photo copy.
Kaiju is the Japanese term for monster or strange beasts, commonly associated with giant monsters such as Godzilla. Kaiju appear as enemies in games, but just as often they are controlled by the player.
Games released coinciding with new hardware.
An act of Mother Nature that brings hardship on humanity and the world.
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.
A service started by Nintendo in 1997 that allowed customers to purchase digital Super Famicom and Game Boy games at an in-store kiosk that would be written onto RAM cartridges available for each system.
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.
A form of copy protection using a physical object such as a wheel, manual, or dongle.
Police are paid protectors who enforce the law through legal use of force. They are supposed to help ensure public safety and social order. Their motto is to protect and to serve.
Games that have an open gameplay structure that allow players to interact with the world as they choose.
Games that have seasons have their environment change depending on the time of the year.
The titular people in EA/Maxis's universe of Sim games. They serve as the citizens in SimCity, and star in the Sims series.
Traffic consists a bunch of cars, pedestrians and other vehicles using a common transport route.
Gameplay that involves performing an entrepreneurial service in order to make money.
The Virtual Console is a platform service that first appeared on Nintendo's Wii and later on the 3DS and Wii U. Games from past consoles are emulated to run on the new hardware with the added benefits of system-level save states and other features.
Variable and dynamic simulation of weather conditions can be used to add variety, atmosphere (a rainy day in an RPG) and/or challenge (rain on the racetrack in a driving game) to a game.
World Building games focus on the ability of the player to created his own little world just as he wants it. Good examples, are The Sims, Black and White, and Spore.
A handful of games deemed of historical significance have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame every year since 2015.
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