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  2. List of video game genres - Wikipedia

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    Light gun shooters are controlled with a gun-shaped controller. Light guns function via a light sensor, hence the name "light gun". The technology has been used as early as the 1920s for shooter games, although electronic video gaming did not exist at that time. This picture shows gameplay of a shoot 'em up.

  3. Atari 2600 - Wikipedia

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    The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.

  4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Wikipedia

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    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006), and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011.

  5. Armour - Wikipedia

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    Armour (Commonwealth English) or armor (American English; see spelling differences) is a covering used to protect an object, individual, or vehicle from physical injury or damage, especially direct contact weapons or projectiles during combat, or from a potentially dangerous environment or activity (e.g. cycling, construction sites, etc.).

  6. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    A means of control over the console or computer on which the game is played. Specialized game controllers include the joystick, light gun, paddle, and trackball. conversation tree See dialog tree. conversion kit Special equipment that can be installed into an arcade machine that changes the current game it plays into another one.

  7. Body armor - Wikipedia

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    As gunpowder weapons greatly improved from the 16th century onward, it became cheaper and more effective to have groups of unarmored infantry with early guns than to have expensive knights mounted on horseback, which was the primary cause for armor to be largely discarded. Most light cavalry units discarded their armor, though some heavy ...

  8. Steel Battalion - Wikipedia

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    Steel Battalion [a] is a video game created by Capcom for the Xbox console where the player controls a "Vertical Tank"—a bipedal, heavily armed mecha. To control the tank and play the game requires the use of a large controller made specially for Steel Battalion. The controller consists of 44 input points, mainly buttons, but also uses two ...

  9. Vehicle armour - Wikipedia

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    The design and purpose of the vehicle determines the amount of armour plating carried, as the plating is often very heavy and excessive amounts of armour restrict mobility. In order to decrease this problem, some new materials ( nanomaterials ) and material compositions are being researched which include buckypaper , [ 2 ] and aluminium foam ...