Top 100 words/terms so delightfully synonomous with video games

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1. Autofire

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)

2. Special moves

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)

3. Extra lives

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)

4. HI SCORE

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)

5 all your base

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)

1UP

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)

End of level guardian

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Power Up

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Lives

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Continue

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Beat-Em-Up

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago)

boss, not guardian.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago)

12. Shoot 'em up

13. Fist person shooter

14. RPG (was it initials only before the 80s?)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago)

oops, someone said "extra lives" already.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago)

It's fucking "GUARDIAN" where are you from the Gorbals?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago)

piece of shit ::throwing control at television::

― kephm, Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago)

i used boss and guardian

15. SHO RYU-KEN! (or whatever it was)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

end of level grauniad

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Ya-Ta!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

guardian means you're gay, sorry.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Gayme Over

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

(xpost to stevem with "Ya-Ta")

Can people in Japan really all do Hadokens?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago)

MINIBOSS

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fucking prole, RJG.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago)

18. Parallax

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

damn! I liked the gay you

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Top 100 words/terms so delightfully synonomous with warren beatty

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

19. Mode 7

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Anyone remember the Bollistick? What a badly named piece of kit!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

20. 8-bit

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago)

21. directional pad
22. cheats

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Mode 7! OMIGOD!

21. SFX Chip

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

KONAMI CODE

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23. Colour Clash

24. Vertical Scrolling

25. Coin-op

― robster (robster), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago)

24. Virtuality

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago)

28. platformer

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago)

27. the long lost cousin of the Beat-Em-Up - the "Beat-Em-All"

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago)

30. Ladders'n'Levels

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago)

30. godsim

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago)

25. Player 1/2/etc

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago)

32. Pick up book. I don't see a 'book'.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago)

34. hidden room

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago)

35. cutesy

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago)

36. arcade conversion

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

skip levels

that would be a pseudonym

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

37. button masher

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

39. toggle

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago)

40. http://www.rebelstar.co.uk/images/smash_new.gif

― robster (robster), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago)

41. Playability

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago)

42. "Oh no! The truck have started to move!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago)

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nowadays it's just wiping the goddam CD and inserting it repeatedly

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)

72. secret level

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago)

75. health meter

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago)

76. strafing

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago)

You know what is awesome? That thing where you blow into the cartridge chamber on the NES and into the mouth of the game cartridge and then gently place the game just so and then slam it down into the thing like fifty times before your 20 year old copy of Bomberman will come on.

i saw someone doing that on the subway with a gameboy advance cartridge and started laughing

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago)

77. medipack

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago)

"nowadays it's just wiping the goddam CD and inserting it repeatedly "

Just like my cock.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago)

78 inverted aim.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)

75/. respawn

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)

princess

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)

77. WALKTHROUGH

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

80. WALKTHROUGH

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

79. left right left right up up down down B A B A B A select-start

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

81. RADAR

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

82. HUD

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

83. speed-up

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Ken, is that the code for CONTRA when you get all the weapons?

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

as a noun?

85. stealth mode

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

i thought it was the one for Street Fighter II Turbo where you get the extra fast 7 star turbo mode!

but the contra one was similar!!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

86. King Hippo, Don Flamenco, Soda Popinski

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago)

87. Z-targeting

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago)

88a hadoken; b shoryuken; c tiger uppercut; d tiger knee, tiger knee!; e the hurricane kick one (YOU transcribe it.)

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

89. NPGs

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

90. AI

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

90. (The laugh for each of the bosses in Kung Fu, which was just the same laugh sped up or slowed down to be higher or lower in pitch.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

92. Player 2

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago)

93. (The fact that you could hit pause and the laugh would continue, so you could actually get it to laugh about 15 times instead of 3 if you kept hitting pause.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago)

94. TELEFRAG

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

89. NPGs

i meant NPCs

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

95. engine.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago)

96. "Mein Leben!"

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

97. FMVs

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

contra's code was up up down down left right left right b a b a select start.

recognize this: 007 373 5763??

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

TYSON CODE. i was looking for that.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

i used to be so fucking quick at entering that code to keep trying to beat tyson

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)

98. insert coin

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)

UBBL RIBL

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago)

it's pretty freaky that I still remember the Tyson code. I never did beat him.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago)

70: the concept of things getting red and moving faster the more they get hurtt

This happens in real life too, by the way.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago)

As does telefragging.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Camping

― Laura E (laurae55), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

^99.

― Laura E (laurae55), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago)

JUSTIN BAILEY

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Unplugging the controller

― Picard Maneuver (Leee), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago)

ICARUS FIGHTS MEDUSA ANGELS

― Laura E (laurae55), Thursday, 1 July 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I wish we had to jump everywhere in real life

― xexxee, Thursday, 1 July 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago)

"make gretzky's head bleed"

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 1 July 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago)

This controller doesn't work.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Thursday, 1 July 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 July 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago)

RETRY

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 July 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago)

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