Small Reference Pools / Video Games

• To most people, Pong was the first video game ever made. Never mind that the nebulous origins of video games date back even farther, or that there was a console before the Atari 2600.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • Super Mario Bros., often merged with Donkey Kong. It's wholly possible to meet people who think they're the same game. And good luck finding anyone who knows that there was a Mario Bros. arcade game before there was SUPER Mario Bros., or that Donkey Kong arcade had not one, but two sequels.
  • Mario Kart is the only kart-racing game. Non-gamers also tend to refer to the entire franchise as "Mario Kart" as if the series only consists of the Kart series, specifically Mario Kart Wii.
  • The Mario Party series are the only party games ever made.
• Any action-adventure game is almost automatically deemed a clone of The Legend of Zelda (usually Ocarina of Time).
  • Modern open-world fantasy game that features lush grasslands and lets you climb things? It's clearly a Breath of the Wild clone.
• Halo is the only Xbox franchise. Gears of War, Fable, and Forza Motorsport might get a mention.
  • On the topic of Halo; all weapons are from the first game, except for the Battle Rifle and Energy Sword (which are from the second game), and the Gravity Hammer (from the third game). Same thing goes for all the vehicles.
• Rhythm Games:
  • DanceDanceRevolution and Just Dance are the only dancing games.
  • Mobile Phone Rhythm Games? The only ones people ever play are gacha-based idol-themed ones like Love Live! School idol festival, THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage, and Project SEKAI.
  • Similarly, DDR is the only BEMANI game in the West, due to being the only BEMANI game to see more than a small handful of Western releases, unlike other games such as jubeat and SOUND VOLTEX which are arcade success stories but have only seen very limited releases outside of Asia (an under-the-radar tablet version for the former, limited export runs to specific arcades in the case of the latter).
    • And there's those who see DDR as the only property Naoki has ever had a major hand in, ignoring Dance Masters and his departure from Konami to work on CROSS×BEATS and later SEVEN's CODE. It gets worse on Facebook where he regularly posts about the latter game and people still demand BEMANI-related things to him in the comments anyway as if he's in any position to do so.
    • Pick any longtime BEMANI composer, particularly ones who left Konami at some point to make songs for other rhythm games such as SLAKE, NAOKI, or Tatsh. Only their BEMANI works will be referenced.
  • Rhythm games with plots are usually not on the radar, however if they are referenced it's probably Parappa The Rapper considering how it is.
  • Do not expect any Americans to be acquainted with any rhythm games that aren't BEMANI, Friday Night Funkin', a dance game, or a band game. Even if the game in question is not a victim of No Export for You.
  • Guitar Hero and Rock Band were the only rhythm games that featured fake instruments to control the game.
• The only JRPGs to exist are Pokémon, Final Fantasy and Persona, with Persona 5 specifically being as ubiquitous among non-JRPG fans as Breath of the Wild is among people who don't play open world games. In Japan, however, Dragon Quest is the undisputed kind of the genre. As for the rest of the genre, the likeliest franchises to be mentioned otherwise are Kingdom Hearts, Fire Emblem, Monster Hunter, and Xenoblade Chronicles, while specific games include Chrono Trigger and NieR: Automata''.
• The only IPs Konami had going into The New '10s were Silent Hill and Metal Gear, and now Konami has no games left. While justified in that a lot of their other modern, still-active IPs are Asia-only arcade games, it can still be jarring to be a fan of the aforementioned BEMANI series, Quiz Magical Academy, or the like and hear your American and PAL-region friends complain about how "Konami doesn't make games anymore". Sometimes, even other big franchises that had a following in American/PAL regions like Castlevania and Contra are often less remembered than those two (even if the 2015/2016 controversies also affected them).
• Any arcade game that was wildly popular in the 1980s. Specifically, the ones you see the most often are Pac-Man, Space Invaders (which was actually introduced in 1976), and Frogger, and maybe Donkey Kong, but mainly because that's how Nintendo got its start (it actually began as a hanafuda card company in 1889, almost a century before they started making video games, and even then they made the Game & Watch system a year before Donkey Kong).
• To most gamers, especially in the West, arcade gaming is seen as a subset of retro gaming; any arcade games after the 90's don't exist.
• If the subject is censorship, expect Grand Theft Auto and Mortal Kombat to show up.
• Sonic the Hedgehog, known among non-gamers only for the classic Mega Drive/Genesis titles, and maybe the Dreamcast games, and chances are if a classic Sega game is brought up, you can always expect Sonic the Hedgehog to be mentioned, and a few other significant Sega classics like Golden Axe or Columns if they're really, really on the ball.
  • What video game series does Sega produce these days? A lot of people don't know besides Sonic. Some people will answer Like a Dragon, Puyo Puyo, Persona or Super Monkey Ball. The rest is an enigma.
• SimCity, The Sims, and their spinoffs are the only simulation games. Occasionally Animal Crossing gets referenced.
• Tomb Raider. The only thing that non-gamers know about the game series is that it features a certain very busty heroine.
• The entire Beat 'em Up genre consists of Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, River City Ransom, and a couple of Capcom games that all kind of blend together because they pretty much all play the same. Do 3D Beat 'em Ups even exist? Oh yeah, God Hand.
• Doom; in fact, people used to call the First-Person Shooter genre "Doom clones". Mostly because there was a short period after its release where almost every FPS was a Doom clone.^note And this is despite the fact that Wolfenstein 3-D actually predated the original Doom.
• Pokémon:
  • Anything after Gen 1 will rarely be featured. Since the anime's characters are better known than those from the games, parodies are MUCH more likely to have Ash than Red (with his Pikachu by his side, of course), contain Pokémon Speak, and be blatantly Merchandise-Driven. If not to the anime or to some nonexistent hybrid of the anime and games (Super Smash Bros. says hi), then references will inevitably be to "Pokémon cards" or Pokémon GO, which brought the series back into the mainstream after several years of being a more low-profile subculture.
  • Despite the vast majority of supporting characters in both the games and the anime, the only ones that are well-known among the general public are mostly just characters who first debuted in the games - such as Misty, Brock, Gary Oak, Red, Leaf, and Professor Oak. Past Gen 1, the only characters that seem to get any recognition outside of the fanbase are Serena, Lillie, Mallow, Lana, and Dawn. Despite first appearing in the games, their anime counterparts are usually far better known than their game counterparts.
  • Besides Ash Ketchum and The Team Rocket Trio (Jessie, James and Meowth), the only anime characters that are fairly well-known outside of the fanbase are Paul, Alain, Nurse Joy, Officer Jenny. Delia Ketchum might get mentioned if you're lucky, and a select few may remember Todd Snap, Cassidy, and Butch (or was his name Botch?), but the other original series characters - such as Ritchie, Tracey Sketchit, and Casey - are almost completely forgotten.
  • Even though there are at least 150 basic Pokémon species, the great majority of non-game/anime fans have only heard of Pikachu, most likely because of its mascot status. Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Charizard, Jigglypuff, or Eevee might also be mentioned. Pokémon introduced after Gen 1 mentioned would be the Pokémon that were in Super Smash Bros. like Lucario, Greninja, and Incineroar. It's also not widely known that Pokémon evolve and that Pikachu's "upgraded" form is Raichu, who is orange instead of yellow.
  • Some people think that Pikachu is actually called "Pokémon".
  • Some 'mons are based on mythical beasts that would be well-known to those in parts of Asia, but are totally unknown in, say, the United States. For example, Pokémon "God" Arceus is possibly based on a hoofed chimera called a Qilin, but Westerners have memetically compared it to a llama or a goat. Same with Animate Inanimate Object Pokémon; in Japan, their Yōkai origins are well-known, but in the west they are believed to be a product of Game Freak running out of ideas.
• Call of Duty and Modern Warfare. Remember the aforementioned "Doom clones" example? If you're a first-person shooter, let alone a 'modern' or 'near future' shooter, expect to be called out as a Call of Duty clone.
  • On the topic of Call of Duty itself, there weren't any installments before the fourth game.
• Dungeons & Dragons or a Brand X version thereof—Sometimes this is assumed to be the title of a video game, by people who have heard the name and have no idea that tabletop roleplaying games exist.
• World of Warcraft—The preceding Real-Time Strategy games do not exist.
  • Real-time strategy games in general probably don't exist, but if one does, it is almost certain to be Warcraft, especially since its MMO spinoff became such a huge success.
  • Blizzard Entertainment has only created three franchises, Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo. As of 2016, Overwatch can join that list.
• Pitfall!. Few non-gamers might know the game's name, but the basic image of a stick figure-like man swinging on vines over lakes and pits seems to be rather familiar to people in general.
• If you're lucky enough to find a work that references a fighting game, it's Street Fighter or Tekken. Otherwise it's a generic anime-styled combo-fest. Mortal Kombat, too, if people remember that it's a fighting game and not a gore simulator.
  • As for Street Fighter, all characters from Street Fighter II. Ryu, Ken, and Chun-li are practically Household Names. Guile, and Zangief are well-known too, though not to the same extent. Blanka, Dhalsim, and E. Honda aren't so lucky. While all the original bosses are well-known, only Cammy of The New Challengers is widely recognized. And last but not least, Akuma of Turbo. Of the Alpha sub-series, only Sakura and Dan are known by all.
  • As for Tekken, it's a little better since Tekken 3 is widely considered to be the best of the series and introduced a plethora of new characters including series protagonist Jin Kazama, so there's more characters that can be referenced. Also, the Updated Re-release of Tekken 5 introduced Lili, who quickly became one of the most popular characters in the series. Other than that, expect possible references to Heihachi, Kazuya, Yoshimitsu, Nina, King, Paul, Law, Xiaoyu, and Hwoarang, but anything else however will go over most people's heads.
  • Fighting games with fanservice? Obviously Dead or Alive. That is, assuming people remember that it is indeed a fighting game and not a Jiggle Physics simulator. Also, there are no males characters in the series (except for Ryu Hayabusa, by virtue of being the star of the well-known Ninja Gaiden series). The Soul Series is also starting to head in this direction for its increasingly infamous fanservice. Other than that, it's best known for its many guest characters.
• If you're lucky enough to spot a JRPG reference, it's going to be either Dragon Quest^note in the east or Final Fantasy^note in the west. Any reference to the latter will almost invariably be to the seventh game. Pokémon pops up on both sides but more rarely because many remember the anime first.
• In the West, if you're lucky, you might find people who can name Shin Megami Tensei games that aren't Persona 3, 4, or especially 5 after Joker joined Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, or their spinoff works.
• Square Enix has only ever produced Role-Playing Games. Einhänder? The Bouncer? Ehrgeiz? Never heard of 'em.
• Hero Shooters? It's gotta be Overwatch. Then there's the bunch of games that tried to copy it and failed (probably). Team Fortress 2 might count even though it was made before the term was widely used, but both of them fill the reference pools for "non-realistic and gritty FPS games".
• For landmark puzzle video games, Tetris will always be the go-to reference point, and sometimes Dr. Mario or Puzzle League will be mentioned, plus Puyo Puyo in Japan.
• Within the Tetris series, only the Game Boy version or current versions will be known.
• The Elder Scrolls series has become the go-to reference for Western RPGs by non-gamers. In increasing order of reference pool size:
  • Morrowind was the first Multi-Platform (XBox and PC) release in the series, and at the time, was one of the very few Western RPGs to receive a console release in many years. It introduced a massive Newbie Boom to the series in addition to being the Breakthrough Hit for the series.
  • Oblivion built onto Morrowind's success, being one of the first major RPG titles of the the 7th generation of consoles, making full use of the Xbox 360's and Playstation 3's technical capabilities.
  • Skyrim's massive popularity brought the series into a place among video game royalty, just behind legendary series including Mario and The Legend of Zelda. Skyrim also arguably put the rest of its own series into this category, especially among younger audiences. It's not uncommon for someone to have heard of Skyrim without having heard of any other game in the series.
• To the majority of people, Bethesda has two franchises: The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Even fewer realize that Fallout didn't originate with Bethesda.
• As aforementioned, the common connotation of video games is that of eight-bit Atari/NES games or gory M-rated shooters.
• When you ask a random gamer to name one of the worst games ever made, people will usually think about E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, Custer's Revenge, Superman 64, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, the Nintendo-licensed CD-i games, the two infamous Sonic disasters ('06 and Rise of Lyric) and occasionally Pac-Man for the Atari 2600, but do not expect them to know about any other terrible video game ever made... unless, of course, they're a fan of The Angry Video Game Nerd. (Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, anyone?)
• When Grand Theft Auto III launched and became a success, any non-GTA open-world game released afterwards was instantly labeled a "GTA Clone" until about the late 2000s.
• The only two video game glitches are Missingno and The Minus World.
• Civilization is the definition of a 4X game. The rest are just Civilization clones.
• Super Smash Bros.:
  • While it did kickstart the genre, as far as most people are concerned, Smash is the only Platform Fighter series ever made. And even if they acknowledge other Platform Fighters such as DreamMix TV World Fighters, Rivals of Aether, Brawlout, Brawlhalla, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up and the like, they will inevitably be compared to Smash.
  • Because of the female Wii Fit trainer's memorable reveal for Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U, many people forget that the game also had a male trainer. Despite the fact that he was an alternate costume for her in the series, it has still yet to fully reverse these perceptions.
• Video games with female protagonists? Tomb Raider, Metroid or Bayonetta.
  • But they're not progressive because they're too sexualized. Now if you want a real Strong Female Protagonist, you can't go wrong with Ellie from The Last of Us Part 2. Add Senua to the list if you're real savvy.
• Simulation racers? Gran Turismo. Forza Motorsport might get a mention, due to being on the rival platform.
• When it comes to Real-Time Strategy games, Warcraft, Starcraft, and the Age of Empires series are the most remembered, plus Command & Conquer for the older fans. After the genre went on a decline in the mid-2000s, many people are not aware of any new RTS games that have come out after those series' latest entries. The only "modern" RTS game most people know is Starcraft 2.
• Nintendo's only franchises as far as most gamers are concerned are Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Kirby, Pokémon, Animal Crossing, and Splatoon. Any other franchise is just padding for the Super Smash Bros. roster, though this has gotten better as of the Nintendo Switch era, where Metroid, Fire Emblem, Pikmin, and Xenoblade Chronicles have all gradually become more recognizable among the public.
  • When pointing out IPs of theirs that haven't gotten games in years, it'll usually be focused on ones that nonetheless still have major representation in Smash Bros. as a player fighter, such as F-Zero, Kid Icarus, and Punch-Out!! and not any of their other IPs that don't have such representation in that series like Rhythm Heaven, The Legendary Starfy, Endless Ocean, Famicom Detective Club, Custom Robo, Sin and Punishment, StarTropics...
  • Mainstream fan works seem to be tailor-made for kids who grew up in The '90s, often treating dead franchises who didn't even make it halfway through the 2000s as if they're still relevant while excluding new franchises made after the '90s regardless of how big they are. For instance, F-Zero and EarthBound (1994) are front and center while Splatoon is nowhere to be found. Animal Crossing is the sole exception.
  • To non-gamers, the only Nintendo games that exist are Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii, and the Just Dance (which isn't owned by Nintendo) series. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has become mainstream, mostly because it was used as a way to bust boredom during the COVID-19 Pandemic as it released around the time lockdown began.
  • To non-gamers growing up in The '80s, the Nintendo Entertainment System is the only Nintendo console and the only games for it are Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and Punch-Out!!, specifically the Mike Tyson release despite his contract with Nintendo ending and the game being rereleased with a recolored Head Swap. Maybe Donkey Kong, but the arcade version is much more remembered than the NES version.
• Similarly, Sony's only franchises are Gran Turismo, Ratchet & Clank, God of War, Uncharted, and The Last of Us. Strangely, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon will often get a mention, despite being third-party and having long abandoned exclusivity.
• The Sega Dreamcast is widely seen as one of the greatest consoles of all time, despite having failed and ultimately killed Sega as a console manufacturer. Despite this, the only games people are likely to name are Sonic Adventure (and its sequel) and Shenmue. Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Space Channel 5 and Soulcalibur might get a mention if the person in question is trying to be different.
• Games with extreme graphics? Crysis.
• Licensed games that are good? GoldenEye (1997), numerous Star Wars games, the LEGO Adaptation Game series, or the Batman: Arkham Series. Maybe you'll get The Simpsons Hit & Run, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure or one of the many Disney games. Micro Machines may get a rare mention as well.
• There weren't any Grand Theft Auto games before Grand Theft Auto III.
• Ace Attorney. Phoenix Wright is the only protagonist of the series, in fact they're often called the "Phoenix Wright games". Also, don't expect a non-fan to be able to tell you anything else about the series besides the Objection! meme. If another character will be referenced, it'll be Edgeworth and nobody else.
• World of Warcraft and RuneScape are seemingly the only MMORPGs in existence, although Guild Wars and EverQuest are referenced on occasion.
• Darkstalkers. The only thing people can remember about that game is the Morrigan Aensland, the Ms. Fanservice succubus who has appeared in more Capcom vs. games than her own. The only other characters people might remember are Lilith (by virtue of being Morrigan's moe sister) and Felicia (who is a near-naked cute monster cat girl). Good luck finding a non-fan who can name another character, or can remember that the actual protagonist of the series is Demitri Maximoff. As you can tell, Darkstalkers is Best Known for the Fanservice, and almost nothing else.
• "All video games are violent/inappropriate and are therefore a bad influence. Therefore, they must be subject to more regulation than movies/TV/music/books/the internet." And remember kids, if a game promotes religion it should get an immediate E-rating. Violent video games promoting Judaism/Christianity/Islam/Buddhism... don't exist.
• The one Roguelike everyone knows is Rogue since it's in the name of the genre... Not that they've played it...
  • All modern roguelikes have wacky synergy interactions like The Binding of Isaac or have a grindy Macrogame like Rogue Legacy. Also, all Deckbuilding Games play like Slay the Spire.
• Space Invaders, Galaga, Raiden, Ikaruga, and Touhou are the only Vertical Scrolling Shooters. Gradius and R-Type are the only Horizontal Scrolling Shooters. Touhou is additionally the only Bullet Hell game series (and for many within the fandom, the only shoot-em-up period) and even then it's described as "Space Invaders (or Raiden) on steroids." If you're lucky, you might find someone who knows CAVE, most likely because they played the mobile versions of their games or saw it in some "Top 10 Hardest Bosses Ever" video. In fact, due to the popularity and visual appeal of bullet hell games, the term "bullet hell" is much more popular than "shmup" and variants thereof. Even if you want to talk about a non-danmaku shmup (such as most Toaplan games), you may need to incorrectly refer to them as "bullet hell" to get the attention of most gamers under 30 years old.
  • Darius Twin is the only Darius game in existence. Though with the worldwide Multi-Platform release of Dariusburst Chronicle Saviours, this might get a little bit better.
  • There are only four Gradius games in existence: Gradius (NES), Life Force (SNES), Gradius III (SNES), and Gradius V (PS2). Note that the first three examples are ports of arcade games.
  • Outside of the shmup community, Space Invaders is the only game Taito has ever made. The NewZealand Story may get a mention if you were part of the home computer gaming scene in the UK in the late-80s/early-90s.
• Touhou Project:
  • The only Touhou characters are Reimu, Marisa, Cirno, Flandre and Remilia Scarlet, and Sakyua. Most people know their theme songs more than the actual characters attributed to them, especially Flandre's theme ("UN Owen was Her?") because of a certain meme of a certain clown.
  • If a character from the PC-98 games is ever acknowledged, it will invariably be Mima.
  • On the topic of Touhou arranges, the only arranges that exist are IOSYS arranges, "Bad Apple!! feat. nomico", and "Night of Knights". This is particularly evident on arcade music games, where any time a game gets Touhou arranges for the first time it will almost always be those songs that appear before any other arranges.
• Shooters that don't scroll: Defender.
• The only reputable PC game distribution platform is Steam. DLsite? Playism? GOG.com? What are those? If a PC game has been released, but it's not on Steam (yet), as far as the general public is concerned it doesn't have a release at all. Or worse, it's an Epic Games Store exclusive.
• Minecraft was the only game Mojang ever made.
  • If you want a Survival Sandbox game, it's either Minecraft, Rust, or Terraria. If you want a creative sandbox mode too, then it's just Minecraft.
• The Plants vs. Zombies series is the only thing PopCap Games has ever done, unless you're an early 2000s kid, in which case you might know about Bejeweled, Zuma, Peggle, and a few other games.
• Looking for a modern Nintendo Hard game? Dark Souls is the go-to example, as well as the Soulslike RPG genre as a whole, to the point where many players will call other challenging games "The Dark Souls of <series or genre>".
• Any time Harvest Moon gets referenced it'll always be a Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town or Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life reference. The protagonist is always male and is always Pete.
• Newgrounds is the only website that hosts online flash games. If not then it's Y8 games, which is more well known is Asia. You also might have heard of Kongregate from all the ads running at GameStop.
• 3D platformers rarely get referenced compared to 2D sidescrollers (and even then most references are of the original Super Mario Bros. or Green Hill Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog). When they do it's almost always Super Mario 64. Crash Bandicoot (1996) or Banjo-Kazooie might get referenced if you're lucky.
• jRPGs with ridiculously high stats and level caps? The only thing that will likely come to mind is Disgaea.
• Mega Man is only ever portrayed as the 8-bit incarnation, most notably in Super Smash Bros., where he's in-line with his 8-bit proportions, but every other character from the franchise (Including Protoman and Bass from the Classic series) is shown with standard proportions.
  • In a strange twist, the mid-2000s had fan works mostly use Mega Man X as "Mega Man" despite them being separate characters.
• While Kirby has gained relative popularity and cult status in the West during the late 2010s after the release of Kirby Star Allies and "Something About Kirby Super Star", this was not the case in the past, when the series nor character were not as popular in the West as they are now. Most references to the Kirby series in Western fan works prior to 2018 were limited to whatever is represented in Super Smash Bros. or maybe Kirby Super Star. Recently, as the generation who grew up on it got older, references to Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, most notably Kirby's "poyo" language, has been referenced more.
  • "Gourmet Race" from Super Star is the only well-known song in the series. "Green Greens" from the first game may appear too.
  • The only Kirby characters are the ones who appear in Super Smash Bros. and possibly Bandanna Waddle Dee since he's a popular fighter request. All others, especially the characters from games that Sakurai didn't direct, are rarely mentioned outside Kirby fan communities.
  • Speaking of which, Masahiro Sakurai is the only Kirby director, and still thought of as such despite the fact he hasn't been involved with the series since 2004.
• When it comes to speedrunning, the first Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario 64 are the games most people outside of the community associate with it, with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time at a close second, and possibly Super Metroid at a third. Other games from those series, and more importantly non-Nintendo games in general (Sony and Microsoft IPs, PC games, indies, and everything in between), don't come up nearly as much.
• The Immersive Sim genre is a somewhat loosely defined term for a certain type of game. Most people don't know what qualifies a game as an immersive sim besides it being first-person (doesn't necessarily have to be) and they emphasize stealth. As for immersive sims games, they can name System Shock, Deus Ex, and... that's about it.
• Indie Games? Shantae, Shovel Knight, A Hat in Time, Hades, Five Nights at Freddy's, and Cuphead. Minecraft also used to count prior to its purchase by Microsoft.
  • A common joke on Twitter is that most indies are EarthBound (1994)-inspired RPGs about depression, specifically Undertale and OMORI.
• Skylanders and games compatible with amiibo are the only "toys-to-life" gameplay style. What do you mean Disney invested in it? As did LEGO?
• If you wanna play a Card Battle Game online against other people, your options are limited to Hearthstone, Shadowverse, and more recently, Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel and MARVEL SNAP.
• Tales of Symphonia is the only Tales Series game. Some people may remember its sequel, though that isn't common.
• "All Mobile Games are just lootbox, microtransaction, pay-to-win driven gambling machine in disguise, with blatantly false advertising", usually the battle cry of those who dislikes modern mobile games. While it's true to certain games, it paints the false picture that all mobile games are just the likes of Raid: Shadow Legends, Gardenscapes, Mafia City or things that often gets a Very False Advertising, or highly controversial ones like Diablo Immortal. High-profile mobile games such as Genshin Impact, Fate/Grand Order or Fire Emblem Heroes have no such features to promote themselves, and even when some of their in-game features encourage meta-building and thus more gacha (PVP for Fire Emblem Heroes or hard challenge quests for Fate/Grand Order), the games have been designed in such way that even 'Free-To-Play' players with less concern of collecting things can go through their main story without any problems as long as they have patience, therefore shedding the expectation that you absolutely need to spend money to even finish the game at all. There are more within mobile gamings beyond what's given in the Very False Advertising shown in the likes of Youtube.
• Early video game consoles? The Atari 2600, Magnavox Odyssey, Intellivision and ColecoVision. The Odyssey² may get a mention as well, along with far rarer mentions of the Fairchild Channel F or Atari 5200.

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