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Games whose titles consist of a single word.
Point and click is an interface featured in a specific kind of adventure game, where players click on objects and characters to interact with them.
An often used plot device where the main character wakes up and has lost all their memories. The game usually centers around getting your memory back or uncovering the events that lead to your confusion.
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!
FMVs are pre-rendered videos used in place of real-time graphics. Using FMV was an attempt to make videogames look "more like movies", sometimes with CGI animation and others with live-action actors speaking directly to players. The downside is that FMV requires a lot of disk space, and live-action FMV in particular can look terrible by comparison.
Players can design a base or dungeon for their characters to inhabit.
A person serving time in prison or an escaped criminal on the run from the law.
A proprietary video codec (.bik/bk2 extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and used in a very large number of video games.
A parallel projection technique used in 2D sprite-based games to fake the appearance of 3D depth.
In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
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