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* [[AI Breaker]] <br />Using a particular aspect of the computer's AI to "cheat" at a game.
* [[After Action Report]] <br />A type of [[Fan Fiction]] for strategy games that involves a blow-by-blow description of a campaign.
* [[Allegedly Free Game]] <br />Although advertised as "free", the game actually has restrictions that you need to pay to override.
* [[Alt-Itis]] <br />A malady that causes a player to compulsively create alternate accounts for a game.
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]] <br />When a Japanese game gets to America, the packaging and ads have to look [[Darker and Edgier]] or just '''angrier'''.
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* [[Complacent Gaming Syndrome]] <br />The phenomenon where players stick to the settings or characters they are used to no matter what.
** [[Abridged Arena Array]] <br />Competitions take place only on select maps, as if the others do not exist.
* [[Console Wars]] <br />The competition between electronics companies to increase their video game market share.
* [[Copy Protection]] <br />Ways of ensuring you own the game you're playing.
* [[Country Switch]] <br />Where the same game is released in different locations, and programmed to act differently depending on where it's being played.
* [[Cross Player]] <br />A person whose online avatar is of the opposite gender.
* [[Daddy System]] <br />A situation in which both a "next-gen" console and its predecessor are both still being made, sold, and developed for concurrently.
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]] <br />Where you're used to playing with a particular control scheme, then start another game that uses one that's ''almost'' the same, and you keep getting killed because you're pressing the wrong button.
* [[Default Setting Syndrome]] <br />The game offers a wide variety of modes, options, and characters, but none of that matters because everyone's too lazy to use anything other than the defaults.
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* [[Fan Remake]] <br />A (generally freeware) game created by fans of the original game, which attempts to recreate the original game experience.
* [[Fan Sequel]] <br />Where the fan community creates a sequel to a work when the original creators won't.
* [[Fan Translation]] <br />The translation of games that only appeared in other languages (almost always Japanese) into the player's native language (almost always English).
* [[Fanon]] <br />The set of theories based on that material which, while they generally seem to be the "obvious" or "only" interpretation of canonical fact, are not actually part of the [[Canon]].
* [[Feelies]] <br />Replicas of video game items or other relevant props that come packaged with a game.
* [[Freemium]] <br />You can pay to upgrade your Free account to a Premium account with more perks.
* [[Four Point Scale]] <br />A derisive term for the (supposed) inability of professional game reviewers to give any game a score under 6.0, even if they're nominally using a ten-point scale.
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* [[Game Breaking Bug]] <br />A bug that seriously cripples or destroys the ability to continue with a game.
* [[Game Cola]] <br />A [http://www.gamecola.net/ website] devoted to observing video games in a clever and humorous light.
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* [[Game Genie]]<br />A cheating peripheral most prominent in the 1980s and 1990s.
* [[Game Mod]] <br />Alterations to a game that were not made by the game's license holder.
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* [[It's Short, So It Sucks]] <br />Any game less than 100 hours can't be worth the money I paid for it!
* [[It Gets Better]] <br />Games that start out very slow, with lots of [[Exposition]].
* [[Just One More Level]] <br />The game is quite addictive. Really, really addictive.
* [[Killer App]] <br />A game that's so good it's a reason to buy the system it's on.
* [[Lady Not-Appearing-In-This-Game]]<br />Shoehorning a sexy woman in a commercial to trick players into buying the game ie assuming most gamers are sexually frustrated.
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* [[Machinima]] <br />Movies made with images from game engines.
* [[Machinomics]] <br />Like [[Machinima]], above, but of static images instead of movies, in a [[Web Comic]] format.
* [[Macrogame]] <br />Some part of a game that carries over between multiple playthroughs or multiple players.
* [[Madden Curse]] <br />Whoever appears on the cover of the latest edition of the ''Madden NFL'' series will either not be up to snuff in the upcoming NFL season, or will suffer a major injury and be sidelined for a year.
* [[Manual Misprint]] <br />The game manual is wrong. Hilarity ensues.
* [[Marth Debuted in Smash Bros]] <br />Where a character's crossover appearance in a game will be exported before the character's ''actual'' original appearance, confusing people as to where he/she actually originated.
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* [[Replay Value]] <br />A measure of how fun a game is after you've beaten it.
* [[Retro Gaming]] <br />An interest in playing older video games.
* [[Revenue Enhancing Devices]] <br />Design features that seem solely designed to ensure increased profit for the manufacturer without adding any value for the consumer.
** [[Compilation Rerelease]] <br />Where publishers bundle several previously released games on one disc and sell it as a compilation.
** [[Limited Special Collectors Ultimate Edition]] <br />A better, souped-up edition of the original, with added bonuses.
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* [[Scrub]] <br />A player of a competitive videogame who adamantly believes that his or her "house rules" should apply to everyone to promote his or her view of "fair play". Most of the said "house rules" are things he or she makes up on the spot and his or her view of "fair play" is "as long as I win 95% of the time".
* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]] <br />A playthrough of a game wherein the player plays under an restriction not required by the game itself in an attempt to increase the difficulty and replay value.
** [[Double Play]] <br />One player controls both characters in a two-player mode.
** [[Hundred-Percent Completion]] <br />Completing the game after finding every single possible thing there is to find.
** [[Low-Level Run]] <br />Completing the game with your [[Character Level]] as low as possible.
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** [[Stealth Run]] <br />Completing a [[Stealth Based Game]] without being discovered.
* [[Sequel Displacement]] <br />Where one sequel ends up being considered where a series "begins" and earlier games tend to be ignored or forgotten.
* [[Sequelphobic]] <br />A subculture that is so jaded by [[Sequelitis]] and [[Capcom Sequel Stagnation]] that its members are predisposed to dislike any product that is a sequel, regardless of its actual value.
* [[Sequence Breaking]] <br />Where you can do things in a different order than intended, skipping past "required" events or items.
* [[Shovelware]] <br />Software that's so low-quality, you'll wonder how (and why) it was released at all.
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* [[That One Player]] <br />Someone who's so skilled at a game that whenever anyone plays with or against him it's no longer any fun.
* [[That One Sidequest]] <br />Yeah, there's that great sword... but seriously, '''[[Final Fantasy X|less than zero seconds on a Chocobo race?]]'''
* [[The Tetris Effect]] <br />The game draws you in so much, you begin see its elements in [[Real Life]].
* [[Tournament Play]] <br />Professional video game players in national or international competitions for real money.
* [[Translation Style Choices]] <br />The various ways that companies can choose to approach the finicky business of localization.
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* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]] <br />A video game rumor that seems ''almost'' plausible and just won't die.
* [[Vaporware]] <br />Computer or video game software or hardware that's constantly hyped but never seems to actually be released.
* [[Video Game 3D Leap]] <br />When a [[Video Game]] series makes the leap from [[Bitmaps Sprites and Textures|sprite graphics]] to [[Polygonal Graphics]].
* [[Video Game Caring Potential]] <br />The game presents characters in such a way to make you care about them past their utility in the gameplay.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] <br />The potential a video game has for the player to do [[Kick the Dog|awful]], [[Moral Event Horizon|horrible]] things to enemies or even friendly and neutral [[NPC|NPCs]].
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