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Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Jun 28, 2019
A game that uses a mixture of 2D & 3D techniques. Commonly used to describe the use of either 3D graphics restricted to a 2D perceptive, or 2D graphics used to fake the appearance of a 3D perceptive.
The 23rd Annual D.I.C.E. Awards celebrate the best games of 2019, as voted by industry professionals.
8-bit can be a reference to actual computing power, or it can be a retro look for videogames that want to recall a bygone era.
A sun that bobs down at Mario. First appeared in Super Mario Bros. 3, an then across various other Mario games.
Ants are small insects that live in nests and work together for a queen. Can be gene-modified to grow huge.
Levels that progress forward by themselves at a fixed rate.
Banzai Bills are the Bullet Bills larger cousins. They advance slowly and can be defeated by a single jump attack.
Bloopers are squid-like creatures that are usually white. They are usually seen underwater and attack enemies by chasing them and trying to catch them.
Boo is a ghost-enemy in the Mario universe who pursue Mario until he looks in their direction. They earned their reputation for being "shy" this way. Don't turn your back on them!
Bullet Bills are enemies in the Mario franchise. They are one of the games' more challenging enemies.
Enemies in the Mario series that run at players, trying to knock them into lava or a pit.
A tough beetle-like creature with a hard outer shell that is immune to fireballs.
When a character from an existing media franchise makes a brief appearance in a video game, sometimes without even openly acknowledging their origins.
Fish that shoot out of the water with great speed in Super Mario Bros. If not jumping through the sky, they can be found in the oceans of the Mushroom Kingdom.
Palette-swapping are sometimes used to denote the different strengths and abilities of your adversaries.
Games that numerically track the player's progress towards completion of a specific goal, single level, or the entire game.
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.
The concept of a helpless female character in desperate need of rescuing by the protagonist, in most cases from a villain, or from a form of impending doom.
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.
A dog is an animal, of which there are estimated to be 400 million of in the world. Said to be man's best friend, they naturally appear in many video games.
Dry Bones are skeletal Koopa Troopas that have been reanimated through magical means. Their ability to reform after being knocked apart can make them quite troublesome.
The 25th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, which took place June 11-13, 2019 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
A fake glitch is a "glitch" coded into the game, designed to confuse, scare, or amuse the player.
A frog is a small and usually green amphibian that can swim, hop, and ribbit. Sadly, most of them aren't princes.
Galoomba are a species resembling Goombas in appearance and name. They are rounder than normal Goombas and are knocked upside-down when jumped on, instead of being defeated.
Goombas are common enemies in the Mario games.
Goombrats are a species of Goomba.
Hammer Bros. are a species of Koopa that throw hammers at plumbers.
A common type of stage featured in many games. Slippery ice, avalanches, and freezing water are some of the unpleasantries to be had when visiting these cold arctic regions.
The best way to make sure even the stupidest players know that certain people, places, terms, or concepts in a game are important is to highlight those words in the text with different coloured letters, or through the use of bold, italicized, or all-caps text.
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