State Your Terms
Games of this type are usually available gratis, but sometimes tend to have payment systems built-in.
What is "Free to play"? (or F2P)
Starting around the 1980s, most video games, notably the Metroid series and the Legend of Zelda series, started incorporating this feature into their games, originally as a password, so that players did not have to start a particular level from the beginning.
What is a Save Point?
The place you can go to on the MNSU Campus if you have something on your heart and mind, and you want someone to talk to.
The Counseling Center
In the context of tabletop games, this term refers to things you collect or acquire that help you buy stuff or accomplish your in-game goals.
What is a Resource?
This recent Amazon Prime Video series portrayed animated short stories of various famous games such as Mega Man and Unreal Tournament.
What is Secret Level?
A term usually heard in the realm of gacha games and shares the same name with this large mammal.
What is a Whale?
A feature of some games that let you restart a new game with everything you have obtained in the first playthrough after completing the game the first time.
What is New Game Plus?
You do this whenever you feel very anxious and out of breath: Pause and _________
What is Breathe deeply? (or any answer similar to this that involves breathing)
This term may apply to squad-based games such as tactical role-playing games (a term made famous due to the Fire Emblem game series for example) where the death of the character eliminates that character from the game completely but the game may continue on with other characters.
What is Permadeath?
This horror game, which has a different name in Japan and a different name in the United States, popularized the famous "Game Over" screen which tends to be utilized in various memes.
What is "Resident Evil"? (or BioHazard)
A genre of exploration-focused games, usually featuring a large, interconnected world. These games are usually side-scrolling platformers or viewed from the top-down, although they can be found in 3D as well. Many borrow features from Roguelike games and are generally named with an amalgamation of two famous game series.
What is Metroidvania?
A feature of certain games, such as Pokémon and Digimon, where the characters you control can transform into stronger and matured versions of themselves.
What is Evolving? (or Evolution)
You do this whenever you feel angry or upset after losing a particular (online or offline) game that you played with others.
What is Taking a pause and walking away? (or any answer similar to stopping and walking away from the game for some time)
Dating back as early as 5870 BC, this board game used to be played with seeds, beans, or stones that are placed in and transferred about the holes on a lengthy board during play, where the objective is to get these seeds etc. into one side board while capturing your opponent's seeds etc. along the way.
What is Mancala?
This game-themed book series which included two books (and was also adapted into a movie of the same name of the first book) included a variety of easter eggs from numerous games and media.
What is "Ready Player One"?
This term is used in board and card games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Magic The Gathering to refer to this type of six sided dice.
What is a D6?
This is an optional feature found in various games where you could pay a certain price amount for a set period of time (usually about two to three months at a time) for a chance to level up and unlock certain rewards.
What is a Season Pass? (or Battle Pass)
One of the services offered by the Counseling Center that is not Individual Therapy.
Any one from "What are Group Therapy Sessions; Workshops; Skill Building Sessions; Outside Referrals"?
A descriptor for hardware or software that arose during the fifth generation of video game consoles. A famous early Nintendo Console also has this particular number in its name and logo.
What is 64-bit?
This term is a fixed series of controller button presses used across numerous games to unlock special cheats. There are variations on this sequence since its original creation by a certain gaming company. But nearly all begin with "up up down down left right left right B A."
What is the Konami Code?
Popular titles like Final Fantasy, Bravely Default, Octopath Traveler, and Chrono Trigger usually fall in this particular category of game genre.
What are JRPGs?
A character-development gaming mechanic typically seen in role-playing games such as Skyrim and Assassin's Creed. Usually tends to be tiered where one must meet certain requirements before being able to obtain higher tier branches.
What is a Skill Tree?
The maximum number of Individual therapy sessions students may receive over the academic year.
What is 10 (or ten)?
This particular game company was the first to introduce the directional pad" (or "cross-key" in Japan) for the controller on their console named ____________ , and it has been used on nearly every console controller since.
What is the Nintendo Entertainment System (or NES)?
This easter egg ("Created by…Warren Robinett…") is recognized as being the first one to appear in a video game and is from this particular video game on the Atari 2600.
What is Adventure?