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Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Nov 19, 1999
Divider that seperates land or structures from one another
A piece of office furniture usually used to store paper documents in file folders.
Gloves with outward finger inserts.
The First Aid Kit works exactly like bandages, except they restore health quicker
Usually used in games to light the way in dark areas.
Cable railways or elevators that move diagonally on an inclined plane. Despite being relatively rare in reality, they appear frequently in video games.
Glass is a transparent substance made from compressed sand.
A lightweight semi-automatic 9mm handgun.
A garment made for covering the hand.
Not an ordinary grapple but one of the mutant alien's finest Barnacle's used as a grappling device to get around the level
A grenade is an explosive device traditionally thrown by hand, but may also be propelled by a rifle or launcher.
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.
Often a character that needs to have their weapons at the ready has these.
Hazard symbols are easily recognizable symbols designed to warn about hazardous materials or locations.
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.
Health Stations are often a sort of vending machine, operation table, med-bot or even NPC that's in place to restore the player's health.
Helicopters are flying vehicles, typically with a single large main rotor to maintain lift with a tail rotor to counter rotation induced by this main rotor. They are useful in air to ground combat as well as for quickly inserting and recovering infantry close to the front line.
Whether it's worn for protection or style, helmets appear in various game genres.
The hazardous environment suit protects from hazards and enhances the abilities of Gordon Freeman throughout the Half-Life series.
Any projectile that incorporates some sort of guidance system, allowing it to auomatically seek out its target.
A potted plant grown indoors for decorative purposes.
A knife is a commonly seen object in video games. Usually used for close quarters combat, or as a cutting tool.
Usually worn to display position as a doctor or scientist
A ladder is used to gain access to higher or lower ground. Also used as a weapon in most wrestling games.
A laser is a focused beam of light, invisible through the air without some other medium (such as smoke) to illuminate it. Lasers are often used in video games as part of a targeting system, or as an offensive weapon in their own right.
A mine attached to a wall with a laser beam pointing outwards. When the beam is crossed, it goes BOOM.
A fully automatic rifle firing intermediate cartridges.
The M249 SAW is the US Military's primary man-portable light machine gun.
Machine guns, generally, are heavier weapons with a rapid rate of fire. To quote the Quake manual, they "eat ammo like popcorn."
Magnum is a term for a pistol or rifle cartridge packed with extra gunpowder to make it significantly more powerful than a standard round. Guns which have been designed to fire this ammunition often share the Magnum label.
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