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Episodic video game

Index Episodic video game

An episodic video game is a video game of a shorter length that is commercially released as an installment to a continuous and larger series. [1]

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Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is a non-profit organization of industry professionals, which organize the annual D.I.C.E. ("Design Innovate Communicate Entertain") Summit which includes the presentations of the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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Action role-playing game

Action role-playing video games (abbreviated action RPG or ARPG) are a subgenre of role-playing video games.

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Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving.

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Alan Wake

Alan Wake is an action-adventure video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios, released for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.

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Alternate reality game

An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.

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American McGee's Grimm

American McGee's Grimm is a 23-part episodic video game series based upon Grimm's Fairy Tales, designed by American McGee, developed by Spicy Horse and distributed online initially by GameTap starting July 31, 2008.

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ArenaNet

ArenaNet is a video game developer and subsidiary of NCSOFT, founded in 2000 by Mike O'Brien, Patrick Wyatt and Jeff Strain and located in Bellevue, Washington.

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Arush Entertainment

Arush Entertainment was a video game publisher and developer based in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States.

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Asheron's Call

Asheron's Call (AC) was a fantasy MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) for Microsoft Windows-based PCs developed and published by Turbine Entertainment Software.

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Back to the Future: The Game

Back to the Future: The Game is an episodic graphic adventure based on the ''Back to the Future'' film franchise.

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BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is an episodic expansion to the first-person shooter video game BioShock Infinite, and a prequel to the original BioShock.

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Bone: Out from Boneville

Bone: Out from Boneville is an episodic adventure game by Telltale Games.

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Clementine (The Walking Dead)

Clementine is a major character in The Walking Dead episodic adventure video game series, a spin-off of the Robert Kirkman comic of the same name by Telltale Games.

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Continuity (fiction)

In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of people, plot, objects, and places seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time.

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Cyan Worlds

Cyan Inc., also known as Cyan Worlds Inc., is an American video game developer, founded as Cyan Productions by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller in 1987, and best known as the creators of the ''Myst'' series.

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David Kushner

David Kushner is a writer who has contributed to publications including Wired, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, SPIN, IEEE Spectrum and Salon.

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Derek Smart

Derek K. Smart is an American video game designer.

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Diabolik

Diabolik is an Italian comics series created by sisters Angela Giussani (1922-1987) and Luciana Giussani (1928-2001).

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Digital distribution

Digital distribution (also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution (ESD), among others) is the delivery or distribution of media content such as audio, video, software and video games.

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Dimps

is a video game development studio situated in Osaka, Japan, with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan.

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Dragon Slayer (series)

is a series of video games developed and published by Nihon Falcom.

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Duke Nukem (character)

Duke Nukem is a fictional character and protagonist of the ''Duke Nukem'' series of video games; the character is unrelated to the character of the same name from the TV series Captain Planet and the Planeteers, which was created a year prior.

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Dunjonquest

Dunjonquest is a series of single-player, single-character fantasy computer role-playing games by Automated Simulations (later known as Epyx).

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Epyx

Epyx, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher active in the late 1970s and 1980s.

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Expansion pack

An expansion pack, expansion set, supplement, or simply expansion is an addition to an existing role-playing game, tabletop game, video game or collectible card game.

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Fahrenheit (2005 video game)

Fahrenheit (known as Indigo Prophecy in North America) is a cinematic interactive drama action-adventure video game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Atari, Inc. for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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Famicom Tantei Club: Kieta Kōkeisha

is an adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System, with the first disk released on April 27,, and the second disc released on June 14, 1988.

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Family Computer Disk System

The, sometimes shortened as the or simply the, and abbreviated as the FDS or FCD, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer home video game console, released only in Japan on February 21, 1986.

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First-person shooter

First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre centered around gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective; that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist.

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Gaiden

is a Japanese-language word meaning "side story" or "tale", used to refer to an anecdote or supplementary biography of a person.

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Gamasutra

Gamasutra is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on all aspects of video game development.

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Game engine

A game engine is a software development environment designed for people to build video games.

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GameDaily

GameDaily (GD) was a video game journalism website based in the United States.

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GameTap

GameTap was an online video game service established by Turner Broadcasting System (TBS).

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Glossary of video game terms

This is a glossary of video game terms which lists the general terms as commonly used in Wikipedia articles related to video games and its industry.

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Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is an action-adventure video game series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly; the later titles of which were created by brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut.

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Guild Wars

Guild Wars is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) series developed by ArenaNet and published by NCSOFT.

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Guild Wars Factions

Guild Wars Factions is an action RPG released in 2006 by ArenaNet, the second in the Guild Wars series.

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Guild Wars Nightfall

Guild Wars Nightfall is a fantasy action role-playing game and the third stand-alone campaign in the Guild Wars series developed by ArenaNet, a subsidiary of NCSOFT corporation.

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Guild Wars: Eye of the North

Guild Wars: Eye of the North is an expansion pack to the Action role-playing game Guild Wars by ArenaNet, a subsidiary of NCSOFT.

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Half-Life (series)

Half-Life (stylized HλLF-LIFE) is a series of first-person shooter games developed and published by Valve.

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Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 (stylized as HλLF-LIFE2) is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve Corporation.

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Half-Life 2: Episode One

Half-Life 2: Episode One (stylized as HλLF-LIFE2: EPISODE ONE) is a first-person shooter video game, the first in a series of episodes that serve as the sequel to the 2004 Half-Life 2.

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Hellfire Warrior

Hellfire Warrior is a 1980 video game published by Automated Simulations.

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Insecticide (video game)

Insecticide is a story-driven action-adventure game by Crackpot Entertainment and published by Gamecock Media Group for the Nintendo DS and Microsoft Windows.

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Jeff Smith (cartoonist)

Jeff Smith (born February 27, 1960) is an American cartoonist.

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Kroz

The Kroz series is a series of video games created by Scott Miller.

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Kuma Reality Games

Kuma Games is an American video game developer, specializing in developing free episodic and first person shooters (FPS) since 2004.

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Kuma\War

Kuma\War (stylized as KUMA\WAR) is a free tactical first and third-person shooter game created by developer Kuma Reality Games.

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Life Is Strange

Life Is Strange is an episodic graphic adventure video game developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.

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Majestic (video game)

Majestic was one of the first alternate reality games (ARGs), a type of game that blurs the line between in-game and out-of-game experiences.

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Massively multiplayer online game

A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG, or more commonly, MMO) is an online game with large numbers of players, typically from hundreds to thousands, on the same server.

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Minerva (video game)

Minerva (stylized as MINERVA) is an episodic series of single-player modifications ("mods") for Valve Corporation's Half-Life 2.

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Myst Online: Uru Live

Myst Online: Uru Live is an open source massively multiplayer online adventure game developed by Cyan Worlds.

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Nihon Falcom

Nihon Falcom Corporation is a Japanese video game developer founded in 1981.

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Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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Nonlinear gameplay

A video game with nonlinear gameplay presents players with challenges that can be completed in a number of different sequences.

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PlayStation Network

PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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Quantic Dream

Quantic Dream SA is a French video game developer based in Paris, France, founded on 3 June 1997.

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Rayman Origins

Rayman Origins is a platform video game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and published by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo 3DS and Microsoft Windows.

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Real-time strategy

Real-time strategy (RTS) is a subgenre of strategy video games where the game does not progress incrementally in turns.

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Resident Evil: Revelations

Resident Evil: Revelations is a survival horror video game developed by Capcom and originally released for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console in 2012.

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Resident Evil: Revelations 2

Resident Evil: Revelations 2, known in Japan as, is an episodic survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom.

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Ritual Entertainment

Ritual Entertainment was a video game developer established in 1996 by Robert Atkins, Mark Dochtermann, Jim Dosé, Richard 'Levelord' Gray, Michael Hadwin, Harry Miller, and Tom Mustaine.

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Sam & Max

Sam & Max is a media franchise focusing on the titular fictional characters, the Freelance Police.

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Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, originally released as Sam & Max: Season Two, is an episodic graphic adventure by Telltale Games based around the characters of the Sam & Max comic series created by Steve Purcell and follows from Sam & Max Save the World.

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Sam & Max Save the World

Sam & Max Save the World is a graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games.

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Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse is a graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games.

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Satellaview

The is a satellite modem peripheral for Nintendo's Super Famicom system that was released in Japan in 1995.

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Satellaview games from The Legend of Zelda series

Between August 6, 1995 and May 30, 1999, Nintendo, in collaboration with St.GIGA, broadcast three different The Legend of Zelda titles to fans for download via the Super Famicom's Satellaview subsystem.

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Satellite radio

Satellite radio is defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'S ITU Radio Regulations (RR) as a broadcasting-satellite service.

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Shareware

Shareware is a type of proprietary software which is initially provided free of charge to users, who are allowed and encouraged to make and share copies of the program.

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Shin Onigashima

, often simply referred to as Shin Onigashima, is an adventure video game title developed by Nintendo EAD and Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo.

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Shining Force III

is a fantasy turn-based tactics role-playing video game designed for the Sega Saturn by Camelot Software Planning.

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SiN Episodes

SiN Episodes were a planned series of episodic games for Microsoft Windows that would have expanded upon the 1998 computer game SiN.

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Single-player video game

A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.

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Sonic Team

is a Japanese video game development division of Sega.

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Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I

is a episodic platform video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

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Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II

is a episodic platform video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I. The game was developed by Dimps, with assistance from Sonic Team, and published by Sega.

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Sorcerian

is an action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom, and the fifth in the Dragon Slayer line of games.

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St.GIGA

was a satellite radio company that was formed as a subsidiary of satellite television company Wowow and later became semi-independent, forming a keiretsu with its parent.

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Star Trek Online

Star Trek Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Cryptic Studios based on the Star Trek franchise.

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Steam (software)

Steam is a digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation, which offers digital rights management (DRM), multiplayer gaming, video streaming and social networking services.

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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is an episodic graphic adventure based on the Homestar Runner web cartoon, with Strong Bad as the lead character.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (officially abbreviated the Super NES or SNES, and colloquially shortened to Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in South America.

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Tales of Monkey Island

Tales of Monkey Island is a 2009 graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games under license from LucasArts.

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Telltale Games

Telltale Incorporated, doing business as Telltale Games, is an American video game developer and publisher based in San Rafael, California.

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Temple of Apshai

Temple of Apshai is a dungeon crawl role-playing video game developed and published by Automated Simulations (later renamed to Epyx) in 1979.

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The DinoHunters

The DinoHunters is an advertisement-supported first-person shooter and machinima series created by Kuma Reality Games.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Sims

The Sims is a life simulation game series that was developed by Maxis and The Sims Studio and published by Electronic Arts.

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The Walking Dead (video game)

The Walking Dead (also known as The Walking Dead: The Game and The Walking Dead: Season One) is an episodic interactive drama graphic adventure survival horror video game developed and published by Telltale Games.

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Time Runners

Time Runners is a series of fantasy novels written by the British author Justin Richards.

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Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is an American media conglomerate that is part of AT&T's WarnerMedia, and manages the collection of cable television networks and properties initiated or acquired by Ted Turner.

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Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Montreuil.

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Valve Corporation

Valve Corporation is an American video game developer and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures is an episodic graphic adventure game based around the characters of Wallace and Gromit created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations.

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WiiWare

WiiWare is a service that allows Wii users to download games and applications specifically designed and developed for the Wii video game console made by Nintendo.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Wizardry

Wizardry is a series of role-playing video games, developed by Sir-Tech, which were highly influential in the evolution of modern role-playing video games.

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Xanadu (video game)

, also known as Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II, is an action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom and released in for the PC-8801, X1, PC-8001, PC-9801, FM-7 and MSX computers.

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Xbox Live Arcade

Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) is a digital video game download service available through the Xbox Games Store, Microsoft's digital distribution network for the Xbox 360.

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Yūyūki

, often simply titled as, is a adventure video game title developed by Nintendo EAD and Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo exclusively in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System.

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1UP.com

1UP.com was an American entertainment website that focused on video games.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodic_video_game

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