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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.
Three games that are individually complete but are closely related in theme or sequence
Slashing weapons are designed to cut and slice rather than causing blunt trauma. Examples include swords, axes, claws, naginatas, or even whips.
Games released coinciding with new hardware.
A handful of games deemed of historical significance have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame every year since 2015.
Space is usually empty, but sometimes it's filled with virtual death machines.
An numeral indication of how much damage a character can sustain. The loss of all hit points results in the death of the character or another penalty.
Ahh, eating... We can't live without it, and, apparently, neither can some characters. From snakes to dots, games have odd ways of dishing out their dishes.
These spooky entities are the spirits of the dead, returned from beyond their graves for generally sinister purposes. There's generally about even odds whether a particular ghost will be helpful or malevolent towards the living, but some ghosts just want to be left alone entirely.
These games take the select button literally. Pushing up and down (or any other button) to select an option will do nothing.
Games that include real photography on the game's cover.
AGI stands for Adventure Game Interpreter and was a tool developed by Sierra On-Line to create graphic adventure games in the 1980s. The interpreter supported 16-color graphics in a 160x200 resolution and took full advantage of the three-channel sound capabilities of the PCjr and Tandy platforms.
Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
Spies are the masters of espionage. They're also (usually) quite adept at the art of stealth, disguise, and assassination.
The grues are an adventurer-consuming monster from the Zork series and other Infocom games. They appear in the dark areas of the game and are a major threat to adventurers.
For some reason, some games are named after the opposing person. Sometimes it's because the bad guy is cooler than the good guy.
The title of a game is a year, or has a year in it. Normally used for sports game and other annual titles, but also used to designate when a game takes place rather than the year released.
The player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles. There is generally a movable camera but it can also be in a fixed position. It most commonly refers to a viewpoint behind the player character.
A board game is a game played on a mostly-static surface using markers or chits to indicate player progress. Many video game board games are based on tabletop games (Catan, Monopoly), but some, like Mario Party and Culdcept, are original designs that use board game design as a starting point.
Classes are different archetypes and playstyles that players can choose to play their game with.
Being able to travel off one side of the screen and in from the other side.
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.
Vertical scrolling is when the screen scrolls along the y-axis. In a vertical scrolling game the player usually starts from the bottom of the screen and moves up. They are also almost always presented in a top-down perspective.
Games that received the C+VG Hit!-Award. C+VG(Computer+Video Games) was a multi-platform magazine published from 1981 to 2004.
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.
By definition, a pirate is a (mostly naval) robber without commission from a sovereign nation. While maritime robbery has been around since ancient times, Piracy had its highpoint during the 17th century. They are easily identified by the "Jolly Roger", which is the traditional name of the famous skull flag.
This concept is for games where at least one of the main characters is female.
"Hand to hand. It is the basis of all combat." -Gray Fox
A powerful release of energy. This energy is usually expelled in all directions very quickly, typically giving off orange or red flames.
A mode in which a game will play a gameplay demonstration video as a means to entice players into playing the game.
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