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Facial hair consists of anything from a mustache to sideburns. Facial hair has been a close friend of gaming from the beginning.
A ball of hot flickering fire. Usually thrown from the hero's hand into the squealing face of the enemy.
The First Aid Kit works exactly like bandages, except they restore health quicker
Whether it's a regular piece of colored fabric or the high-tech keystone of a base's defenses, the flag is the most important asset a team can have and the most precious thing the opposing team can steal. It is also used for racing games.
A Gatling gun is a machine gun that uses multiple rotating barrels to rapidly fire bullets. Commonly mounted on vehicles or gunships, some larger characters may carry a hand held version.
A garment made for covering the hand.
A goatee is a patch of hair on the chin, sometimes includes a mustache. Major characters who sport goatees include Gordan Freeman (Half-life), Kratos (God of War) and Marcus Fenix (Gears of War).
Goggles are used to protect the user's eyes.
Considered one of the most frequent and controversial implements of destruction in video games and real life, guns are devices that fire projectiles with explosive force.
Popular decorative props during the Middle Ages.
Health packs restore some amount of a players health, and can be permanent or temporary. They come packaged in a variety of forms, from the common med kit, to drugs, medicine, and even food.
Hearts in video games are often associated with health or extra lives. From picking them up free of charge to buying them for in-game money.
Whether it's worn for protection or style, helmets appear in various game genres.
Any projectile that incorporates some sort of guidance system, allowing it to auomatically seek out its target.
Powers that are so strong that you may have trouble seeing while activated
Used to open doors, or anything else that is locked. In any game where the player has an inventory, it's a safe bet that a key will appear at some point.
A keycard is a plastic card with a magnetic strip, chip, or other circuitry, programmed to allow passage through locked doors. May also require a passcode or password of some kind.
Lava is molten rock, usually from the interior of a planet, and in games is often used as a hazard to players, or as a visible gameplay-area boundary.
Machine guns, generally, are heavier weapons with a rapid rate of fire. To quote the Quake manual, they "eat ammo like popcorn."
A spring loaded box which holds ammunition for a firearm. Often referred to as a "clip" although this is not technically correct.
These glowing silver balls are a godsend in the later missions in the Doom series. Pick one up and your health and armor both immediately shoot up to 200 percent.
A corpse (excluding undead) that has been maimed in a grizzly manner. A common decorative in castle dungeons.
A rope with a loop at the end of it. Used for hanging people.
From an item container in Final Fight, to Roper's favorite weapon in Double Dragon, and even an obstacle in Street Fighter II's elusive bonus round, the barrel is one multi-faceted game object.
A pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn using five straight lines. Though pentagrams have a variety of meanings, in video games they are most often seen upside-down, as symbols of the occult and evil.
A pistol is a very basic hand-held side arm, usually used in case of low ammo or tricky situations. They have appeared in many types of games.
The Plasma Gun launches plasma by using controlled magnetic fields. Plasma weaponry is used throughout the Imperium despite the possibility of the weapon overheating and killing the plasma gunner.
A radiation suit is often used to shield a player's health from the deadly effects of various hazards.
An explosive ordinance propelled by a chemical reaction that causes a controlled explosion resulting in thrust. Rockets are usually "dumb" weapons, meaning that they are not guided. Rockets are the most powerful projectile in many games.
A weapon that launches rockets.
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