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Game » consists of 1 releases. Released 1994
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.
A female warrior from the Amazons, an all-female nation in Classical and Greek mythology.
A concept in games with multiple characters, a screen with pictures of all playable characters with the possibility of stat listings.
Digitized sprites, popularized in the early 90s, were a form of graphics that used footage of real actors, Stop-motion frames of a figure/clay model or 3D renders of characters that were then made digital and put into the game.
Fatalities are a means of ending a fighting game match by gruesomely murdering the loser. It was popularized as a finishing move performed at the end of a match in Mortal Kombat.
Finishing moves are typically moves that end a fight in a traditional fighting game.
A member of any number of tribes or ethnic groups, indigenous to regions of North America which are now part of the United States. Many of these groups continue to exist as intact legal and political entities.
Legendary, stealthy assassins from Japan's feudal era, who are well-trained in the art of the sword, and who may or may not have access to magical powers.
A designer can use a racial stereotype to make a character easier to understand, though in the process the character may come across as offensive and hurtful.
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 ability to move from one area to another instantaneously - typically through some sort of special power or device.
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