Famous Media Doctors
Indie Video Games
Phatic Expressions
Media Storage Devices,
Media Players, and Media Encoding Types.
Crackers
100

In this 1990 action puzzle video game, you line up groups of red, blue, and yellow colored pills to clear viruses.

Dr. Mario

100

A 2010 platform game designed by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes under the collective name of "Team Meat". 

Super Meat Boy

100

This English phrase is most commonly used to greet people around the hours of 6am-11am.

Good morning

100

Originally made of polyvinyl chloride, these disks are designed to be played on a phonograph/gramophone.

Vinyl Record

100

One of the main ingredients in S'mores, this brown cracker is made with flour of the same name.

Graham cracker

200

A British science fiction television program produced by the BBC since 1963.

Doctor Who

200

This tough-as-nails platformer was inspired by the rubber hose style of animation used in cartoons of the 1930s

Cuphead

200

This English phrase can be used in place of "You're welcome" as a response to being thanked.

No problem

200

The predecessor to the CD. This audio version of a VHS tape has a slot in most older cars.

Cassette Tape

200

This popular brand of round crackers shares it's name with a popular luxury hotel and resort chain.

Ritz

300

A supporting character from the Mega Man and Mega Man X series. He is the father and creator of Mega Man, Roll and Proto Man.

Dr. Light

300

A puzzle-platform video game developed by independent studio Playdead. You play as a nameless boy, who awakens in the middle of a forest on the "edge of hell".

Limbo

300

An informal salutation in the Italian language that is used for both "hello" and "goodbye".

Ciao

300

A brand of portable media players manufactured by Sony. Released in 1979, this device allowed people to listen to music of their choice on the move.

Sony Walkman

300

A flat, cracker-like bread commonly used in dishes as breadcrumbs and balled up in soup.

Matzo

400

A 2013 horror novel by American writer Stephen King and the sequel to his 1977 novel The Shining. The book reached the first position on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Doctor Sleep

400

A platform game in which players control a girl named Madeline as she makes her way up a mountain while avoiding various deadly obstacles. 

Celeste

400

A common greeting and phatic expression in the United Kingdom, but in America this phrase expresses genuine concern.

You alright?

400

A home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision (also known simply as “DiscoVision”) in the United States in 1978.

LaserDisc

400

A snack crackers produced by Nabisco that is famous for containing chicken fat for flavor.

Chicken in a Biskit

500

In this somewhat viral video from 2014, a man stands in front of a green screen and says the name of this website over and over again while videos of food play behind him.

Doctor Deuce (.com)

500

The player controls an unnamed adventurer. The aim of the game is to explore tunnels, gathering as much treasure as possible while avoiding traps and enemies. The adventurer can whip or jump on enemies to defeat them, pick up items that can be thrown to either attack enemies or set off traps, and use a limited supply of bombs and ropes to navigate the caves.  

Spelunky

500

In speech communication the term "phatic expression" means "small talk" (conversation for its own sake) and can also been called this.

Grooming talking (or talking to groom)

500

A color encoding system that most European countries use. One of the major analogue color television standards. Other similar formats are NTSC or SECAM.

Phase Alternating Line (PAL)

500

A saltine cracker, a thin, usually square cracker made from white flour, yeast, and baking soda, with most varieties lightly sprinkled with coarse salt, can also be referred to as this.

Soda Cracker

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