Virology
It was Umbrella's first deadly virus, unleashed on the unwitting inhabitants of Raccoon City.
What is the T-virus?
Originally sponsored by Anheuer-Busch, this 1983 arcade game saw players taking the role of a bartender serving drinks to customers. Two versions were made: one for bars, and one for arcades which replaced beer with root beer.
What is Tapper?
If you're low on HP in the original Dragon Quest/Warrior, your options are limited to this leafy item.
What is the Medicinal Herb?
This Nintendo RPG series, which started on the GBA and died on the 3DS, featured a unique gameplay mechanic where one player controlled both of the titlular brothers.
What is the Mario & Luigi series?
Rip and tear through demon hordes invading Earth (not just Mars) in this game, the most recent title in a long-running shooter series.
What is DOOM Eternal?
The characters in Asobo Studio's Plague Tale explore a rat-infested world reeling from this devastating disease.
What is the Bubonic Plague/Black Death?
A surprising amount of promotional material for this Rare N64 game involved the title character hoisting a frothy stein of beer to let us all know it's a game for adults.
What is Conker's Bad Fur Day?
In the original Tamagotchi toys, you could give your virtual pet this kind of unhealthy snack when it was hungry, but feed it too many and it'll become sick.
What is cake?
Double Fine's 2012 Kickstarter campaign for this game was, at the time, the highest-funded Kickstarter on record. It tells the story of two teenagers unwittingly working together to avert disaster.
What is Broken Age?
The video footage in this post-apocalyptic Sega CD game was directed by visual effects artist John Dykstra, who supervised the effects of Star Wars.
What is Sewer Shark?
Cordyceps, an organism in this kingdom, attacks insects and arachnids in real life, but in The Last of Us, it made the devastating jump to humans.
What is fungus/Fungi?
Dead or Alive alum Brad Wong practices zui quan, a martial art style that uses uneven, exaggerated movements to fool his opponents into thinking he's in this state of mind, and will thus be an easy mark.
What is drunk/inebriated?
Vanillaware action game Muramasa: The Demon Blade featured a few of these naturally-occurring areas where the main characters could relax alongside Japanese macaques ("snow monkeys").
What are hot springs?
This spiritual follow-up to Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons has no single-player option, tasking two players with controlling the two main characters--prisoners who break out of the joint go on the run.
What is A Way Out?
There are lots of post-apocalyptic video games out there, but this is the only one (so far) that involves hunting giant robot dinosaurs with a bow and arrow.
What is Horizon Zero Dawn?
This recent game from SIE Bend Studio concerns a biker named Deacon who tries to survive and find his wife in a Pacific Northwest overrun by "Freakers" (zombies).
What is Days Gone?
Henry, the protagonist of walking simulator Firewatch, spends much of the game carrying a bottle of this substance. While he never actually uncorks it, he can lovingly caress it.
What is whisky? (maybe it's Fireball)
If Link throws a bird egg into one of the many hot springs in Breath of the Wild, this snack will be the result.
What is a hard-boiled egg?
The tenth game in this long-running RPG series is an MMORPG (quite unusual for the Wii) and remains the only entry that was never released outside of Japan.
What is Dragon Quest?
This anticipated 2016 Xbox One game, about a young woman and her robotic companions exploring a desert planet, was directed by Marc Pacini (of the Metroid Prime series) but failed to find an audience even after its "Definitive Edition" launch the next year.
What is ReCore?
If you're one of those crazy Pokemon trainers who goes to all the effort to engage in this kind of training, you'll want your party to get infected by the Pokerus, as it makes your life considerably easier.
What is EV training?
After downing the supernatural Aglaophatis substance in this PS2 threequel, protagonist Heather Mason throws up the underdeveloped fetus of "God," which is immediately consumed by the villainous Claudia Wolf.
What is Silent Hill 3?
One of the most interesting storylines in 2010's Trauma Team was this medical role, which resembled a point-and-click adventure more than the usual hands-on Trauma Center action. Perhaps they took some inspiration from House, M.D.
What is diagnostician/diagnosis?
E-Line Media and the Cook Inlet Tribal Council collaborated on this adventure game featuring a young girl and her Arctic fox companion playing out a traditional Inupiaq story, "Kunuuksaayuka."
What is Never Alone?
What is Cadillacs and Dinosaurs?