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Game » consists of 25 releases. Released Oct 02, 1994
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
Porting is a term used when a game designed to run on one platform is converted to run on a different platform. Quality varies, though some titles are packaged with extras.
Depending on the country, a song enters public domain after a certain number of years after release or after the death of the writer. In the United States, it is 95 years after release.
Some games have one kind of mini-game or bonus stage that recurs between each of the main levels. It is an extra chance to get extra points, lives or other goodies that is clearly set apart from the main action of the game.
Red Book is a set of specifications for audio CDs. For games it refers to early CD-ROM titles with background music recorded and played back as audio tracks, instead of being generated by the hardware. Its called Redbook Audio because the book that lays out all the specifications has a red cover.
Retroachievements is a community created and curated site that adds Achievements and Online Leaderboards for supported emulators and platforms like Raspberry Pi
The first subscription based video game serviced offered through your cable company.
Genesis/Mega Drive classics made available to subscribers of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack.
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.
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.
The inability to walk in any direction whilst shooting a weapon of any sort. The player usually still has the ability to pivot.
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.
Metroid, Mega Man, Earthworm Jim, Metal Gear, Halo, Crysis, Iron Man, and many more. Ordinary men and women who become extra-ordinary with the right suit on.
When the humor is caused by the lack of logic.
The act of traversing space while attached to a piece game geometry. Sometimes via a rope, or other grapple like object.
Animals that have the ability of speech and in some cases are anthropomorphic.
When a certain amount of time is given to the player to reach a goal or finish an objective.
Games whose main character is so egotistical that the whole game just HAS to be named after them.
Games that are controlled partially or entirely with a touch screen.
Three games that are individually complete but are closely related in theme or sequence
tUME (the Universal Map Editor), is a development/map-making tool used in over 11 games. It was used to make SNES, Amiga, and Genesis. It runs of of MS-DOS and AmigaOS.
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.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's online gaming service.
Xbox 360 and original Xbox games that have been approved to run on the Xbox One's backwards compatibility feature.
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