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Game » consists of 2 releases. Released November 1992
Part ad, part game. Advergames are designed to promote a specific brand or product, usually outside the game industry.
Attitudes towards the Clown vary from person to person. Some find entertainment and humor, others feel really creeped out by their overly flamboyant nature. Ultimately, games tend to take the path of a more horrific presentation to stimulate the atmosphere of a particular setting.
When a character goes to the edge of a platform and starts to wobble. Most commonly seen in side-scrolling platformers.
Games that are designed to inspire the purchase of a specifically branded food product.
These games are based off of established licenses, such as movies, comics, or TV shows. Examples are the James Bond 007 and Spider-Man franchises.
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
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 mode in the game, often an unlockable, allowing players to listen to individual music tracks, voice clips and/or sound effects.
Video games that, for better or for worse, are based on an existing non-video game franchise. Usually drawn from movies, tie-in games have also been made about TV shows, novels, and even one-hit wonder pop bands.
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.
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