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A game with no sound or music of any kind.
Early game consoles were unable to produce complex objects nor different colors. To make the games more enjoyable, the developers included a translucent overlay that players could physically place on the television screen.
Games devoid of or mostly without music, including games with title screen music, but with little to no gameplay music.
Games whose titles consist of a single word.
Games released coinciding with new hardware.
A Light Gun controller is used on some arcade games and very few console games. You point it at the screen, pull the trigger, and people die.
Handball is a team sport in which players try to throw a ball into the opposing team's goal. It is most popular in Europe and is played at the summer Olympics.
A professional and amateur sport, played world-wide, in which two teams advance a ball up and down a court in order to score "field goals," by throwing the ball through a basket or hoop. The team with the highest score at the end of timed play wins.
Games which have nothing to do with each other, but have the same title.
Codenamed "Canada's Game", Hockey is a game played by two opposing teams on a sheet of ice with the objective of scoring the most goals with a rubber puck. Players use wood or composite hockey sticks to put the puck in the net.
Turn-based games divide game actions into distinct parts, called turns. This gives the player time to strategically choose actions as the battle or events unfold.
Bet a little or bet the house. How much you win depends on how much you wager.
Someone who investigates unsolved crimes and other mysterious happenings, either for a living, as a hobby, or simply by chance.
Games about, or with math in them.
Tennis, but on a table. Also known as Ping Pong or Pong.
Tennis is a sport that involves making a ball hit your opponent's side of the court by hitting it with a racket.
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.
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