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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.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
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.
The title of a game is a year, or has a year in it. Normally used for sports game and other annual titles, but also used to designate when a game takes place rather than the year released.
Certain Game Boy titles included special enhancements available only when played on an SNES using a Super Game Boy adapter.
Whenever there's a new Pixar, superhero or Harry Potter movie they have to make one of these.
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.
Games that include real photography on the game's cover.
In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
Game Over originally appeared in pinball machines, and later, arcade machines. When players lose at a game, it is game over.
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