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Video Game Almanac
The Game Shelf
Scripted
100

These objects are used to hold literature in place on a shelf.

Bookend

100

You'll never be lost in a maze when you have this woman's golden thread.

Ariadne

100

The name of Nintendo's first home console, as an acronym.

NES

100

Standard practice for game covers is to include three pieces of information: Number of players, average playtime, and this.

Age range

100
"Here's lookin' at you, kid" is the closing line of this famous movie from 1942.

Casablanca

200

The same actor who played Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (2012) played this character sorted into Slytherin House.

Bellatrix Lestrange

200

This little creature from Latin American folklore is best known for killing livestock.

Chupacabra

200
This colloquial phrase describes the process by which an Xbox 360 notifies users that there is a problem with its internal hardware.

The Red Ring of Death

200

This game designer is known for his use of puzzle piece-like tile laying game structure.

Uwe Rosenberg

200

This movie is the source of the line "Can you dig it?" as well as a threat to use a baseball bat to turn a man into a popsicle. 

The Warriors (1979)

300

This fortress in Mordor was destroyed when the One Ring was cast into the fire.

Barad-Dur

300

Perhaps this woman in Delphi forsaw the game we are playing right now.

Pythia

300

This video game console released in 1998 was the successor to the Sega Saturn, and is the final home console produced by Sega in its original line.

Dreamcast

300

Another name for "Point Salad" games. There's war games, and then there's this.

Euro

300

This line in Dirty Dancing (1987) has been colloquialized to mean "No one with talent can be stopped from using it."

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

400

The writing of Rhand al'Thor's story was taken over by this author in 2005.

Brandon Sanderson

400

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, this type of bird on a string around one's neck represents a previous misdeed that weighs you down.

Albatross

400

This former CEO of Nintendo America was sued by Nintendo, and settled the suit for $10 Million dollars.

Greg Bowser

400

On boardgamegeek.com, this value indicates the complexity of a game.

Weight

400

A scene heading in a script is also known by this name.

Slugline

500

This 1947 children's book by Mary Norton was adapted into a Disney movie in 1971 titled Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Bonfires and Broomsticks

500

The four directional symbols of Chinese Cosmology are the Azure Dragon of the East, the Black Tortoise of the North, the the Vermillion Bird of the South, and this.

White Tiger of the West

500

The term for a lighting algorithm in graphics where light is sent away from the camera, rather than toward it, and is mapped toward light sources for efficiency.

Ray Tracing

500

This German award festival is known as the highest achievement for board games to receive.

Spiel des Jahres
500

In Charlotte's Web (1973), Goose uses this adjective to describe the County Fair Smorgasbord, to say that it is, in fact, the real deal. Oh, what a ratly feast!

Veritable