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Key facts & relationships
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Topics to explore
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Overview
- Video game
- Player Player character
- Flip-screen
- Golden age of arcade games Golden age of video arcade games
- 3D graphics 3D computer graphics
- Fifth generation Fifth generation of video game consoles
- Arcade video games Arcade video game
- 8-bit 8-bit computing
- Atari 8-bit computers
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- 16-bit 16-bit computing
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- Sega Genesis Sega Mega Drive
- Parallax scrolling
- Hong Kong cinema Hong Kong action cinema
- Kung-Fu Master Kung-Fu Master (video game)
- Beat 'em ups Beat 'em up
- Technōs Japan
- Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun Renegade (video game)
- Horizontally and vertically Belt scroll
- Double Dragon Double Dragon (video game)
- Technos Japan
- Golden Axe
- Final Fight Final Fight (video game)
- Capcom's Capcom
- Street Fighter
- Hack and slash
- Pac-Land
- Wonder Boy
- Super Mario Bros.
History
- Shooter video game
- Shoot 'em ups
- Defender Defender (video game)
- Williams Electronics
- Mini-map
- Scramble Scramble (video game)
- Levels Level (video games)
- Platform game
- Jump Bug
- Taito
- Jungle King Jungle Hunt
- Tarzan
- Irem
- Moon Patrol
- Activision
- Racing games
- Atari VCS
- Barnstorming Barnstorming (video game)
- Grand Prix Grand Prix (video game)
- Nintendo
- Excitebike
- SNK
- Mystic Marathon
- Gradius
- Shoot 'em up
- Action games Action game
- Platform games
- Sprites Sprite (computer graphics)
- Ninjutsu
- Martial arts
Sources
- Steven L. Kent
- The Ultimate History of Video Games
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
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Map overview Semantic statistics
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How this topic connects Entity context
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| punches | instance of | using attacks/weapons | 0.80 | text |
| kicks | instance of | using attacks/weapons | 0.80 | text |
| guns | instance of | using attacks/weapons | 0.80 | text |
| swords | instance of | using attacks/weapons | 0.80 | text |
| ninjutsu or magic.The most notable early example was Irem's Kung-Fu Master | instance of | using attacks/weapons | 0.80 | text |
| end-of-level boss battles as well as health meters for the player character | instance of | and had elements | 0.80 | text |
| bosses.The side-scrolling character action game format was popular from the mid-1980s to the 1990s | instance of | and had elements | 0.80 | text |
| Taito's The Legend of Kage | instance of | Popular examples included ninja action games | 0.80 | text |
| Golden Axe | instance of | where acclaimed titles | 0.80 | text |
| Final Fight | instance of | where acclaimed titles | 0.80 | text |
| Konami's Green Beret | instance of | with titles | 0.80 | text |
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