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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.
Used to simulate blowing dust off a virtual NES-esque cartridge while starting up the game.
Chiptunes are musical compositions that are synthesized by a computer or console sound chip.
Sometimes designers add old-school things on purpose to enhance game design. These games tend to be heavily inspired by hardware limitations of older systems. NES, Atari 2600, and early computer platforms (DOS, Commodore 64, MSX, etc...) are common sources of inspiration.
Games with cover art that imitates game boxes for bygone systems, or recalls a distinctive aesthetic used for cover art in that era.
A remake/re-imagining of a game that uses lower fidelity assets, due to a deliberate design choice.
DS games that feature gameplay elements requiring the player to speak or blow into the handheld's built-in microphone.
Part of the game's story is that it's part of a franchise, but guess what? Some of it doesn't really exist!
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
A leaderboard is a way for players of any multi-player game to know where they rank within the game's community.
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
When the artwork on the game's box in no way correlates to the game's actual look and feel.
OpenFeint is one of the largest free social networks on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
Pixel art refers to digital images composed of visible pixels, drawn with individual pixel-level intent and precision.
The PlayChoice-10 was an arcade console released by Nintendo containing ten Nintendo Entertainment System games per unit.
Not all scientists are mad and/or hell-bent on dominating worlds. Some are just your ordinary egghead with a coat.
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.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
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.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
Steam Cloud is a built in feature in some Steam games, it synchronizes game saves, settings and other data to the internet for access from any computer that has Steam installed.
The common use of "Zero" or "0" at the end of a game's title to emphasize it as a precursor to the rest of the series. Similarly, some series will title a prequel "Origins" instead to denote it as the earliest point in the story.
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.
This is a list of PC games which support connecting an Xbox 360 controller to your computer and using it to play the game.
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