media terms chap 13
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- Adventure game
- Travel through a fantasy world solving puzzles to reach a goal.
- Arcade game
- Those played on stand-alone units that take coins. They are designed for only one game.
- Avatar
- The character you assume in a fantasy game.
- Cross-over game
- Game that attracts people who don’t otherwise play video games.
- First person shooter
- Blast at enemies who keep popping up.
- Game console
- An early marketing package containing a playing device that connected to a television set, plus several games and such ancillary equipment as playing cards.
- MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game)
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The classification of most online video games today.
- Platform game
- Those played on dedicated equipment, like Playstation.
- Role-playing game
- Take an identity as you wander through a fantasy world.
- Simulation game (or “God†game)
- Manage a community, an industry, or a war.