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x Platform game A simple platform sequence from the game Wonder Boy Rainbow Islands
Platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre characterized by jumping to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles. It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps. The most common unifying element to...
Super Mario Bros.
Prince of Persia
Lode Runner
Another World
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x Adventure Mystery House for the Apple II was the first adventure game to use graphics in the early home computer era Maniac Mansion
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story that is driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenges such as combat. The term originates from the 1970s game...
Day of the Tentacle
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Escape from Monkey Island
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x Action-adventure The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a popular action-adventure game D/Generation
An action-adventure game can be defined as a game with a mix of elements from an action game and an adventure game, especially crucial elements like puzzles.  Action-adventures require many of the same physical skills as action games, but also offer...
The Staff of Karnath
Primal
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure
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x Turn-based strategy The Battle for Wesnoth, an example of a turn-based "tactics" game Civilization
A turn-based strategy (TBS) game is a strategy game (usually some type of wargame, especially a strategic-level wargame) that is turn-based. The phrase turn-based is used to distinguish such games from real-time strategy games, and as such the...
Fritz
Heroes Chronicles
Total Chaos
L'Empereur
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x Life simulation   The Sims
Life simulation games (or Artificial life games) are simulation games in which the player lives or controls one or more artificial lifeforms. A life simulation game can revolve around "individuals and relationships, or it could be a simulation of an...
Little Computer People
The Sims 2: Nightlife
Alter Ego
Animal Forest
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x God game Screenshot from Populous for the Amiga The Sims
A god game is a construction and management simulation that casts the player in the position of controlling the game on a large scale, as an entity with divine/supernatural powers, as a great leader, or with no specified character (as in The Sims...
Populous
The Sims 2: Nightlife
Dungeon Keeper 2
The Sims Life Stories
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x Stealth-based game Screenshot of Metal Gear Solid. The life bar (upper left) is almost depleted Castle Wolfenstein
A stealth game is a video game in which the player needs to avoid detection. The genre dates back to 1981 with the release of 005 and Castle Wolfenstein, and attained some early success with Metal Gear (1987) and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990)....
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein
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x MMORPG WoW Flying Gnomes Final Fantasy XI
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (commonly abbreviated MMORPG) is a genre of computer role-playing games in which a large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world. The term MMORPG was coined by Richard...
World of Warcraft
Star Trek Online
The Shadows of Luclin
Materia Magica
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x Role-playing game Final Fantasy
A role-playing game (RPG; often roleplaying game) is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants often determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or...
Betrayal at Krondor
The Secret
Rune Factory
Digimon Story: Sunburst/Moonlight
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x First-person Shooter Doom ingame 2 Frontlines: Fuel of War
First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre which centers the gameplay around gun- or projectile weapon-based combat through the first person perspective; i.e., the action is seen through the eyes of a protagonist, and thus the player....
JFK: Reloaded
Alien Breed 3D II: The Killing Grounds
VBS1
Natural Selection
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x Real-time strategy Dune II (1992) - The game that defined the real-time strategy genre Magnant
Real-time strategy (RTS) games are a genre of computer wargames which do not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II. In an RTS, as in other wargames, the participants position and maneuver...
Allegiance
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Total Annihilation
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
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x Interactive fiction Zork can run on modern Z-machine interpreters, as well as the older models it was made for originally Border Zone
Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video...
Deadline
Will
Advanced Xoru
Journey
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x Science fiction Science-fiction books, magazines, film, TV, gaming and fandom material Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science. such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, and time travel, often...
CyberRace
RF Online
The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: The Secret of the Living Volcano
Commander Blood
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x Simulation Simsvr Princess Maker
A simulation video game describes a diverse super-category of computer and video games. Some simulation video games are intended to simulate the real world; others are intended to simulate a fictional world; still others (The Sims 2 for example) are...
Battlezone
Gunship
Shufflepuck Cafe
Monster Rancher EVO
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x Shootem-Up   Llamatron  
Revenge of the Mutant Camels
Ibara
Pink Sweets - Ibara Sorekara
ESP Ra.De.
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x Third-person Shooter Leon S. Kennedy in Salazar's Castle in Resident Evil 4 Extermination
Third-person shooter (TPS) is a genre of 3D action games in which the player character is visible on-screen, and the gameplay consists primarily of shooting. A "third person shooter" is a game structured around shooting, and in which the player can...
The Getaway 3
Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico
Armored Core
25 To Life
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x Educational    
An educational film is a film or movie whose primary purpose is to educate. Educational films have been used in classrooms as an alternative to other teaching methods. Many educational films shown in schools are part of long series - for example,...
x First-person Adventure   RHEM
First-person adventures are one of the oldest computer and video game genres. First-person adventures tend to focus on puzzle, exploration and character-interaction with no shooting or action elements, though some also feature elements from other...
3D Monster Maze
Lost in Time
Skyborg: Into the Vortex
Raven Blade
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x Maze Public hedge maze in the "English Garden" at Schönbusch Park, Aschaffenburg, Germany Pac-Man Vs.
A maze is a complex tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route. In everyday speech, both maze and labyrinth denote a complex and confusing series of pathways, but technically the maze is...
The Sacred Armour of Antiriad
Nonterraqueous
Gotcha
Nodes of Yesod
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x Racing Racing GP Rider
A sport race is a competition of speed, against an objective criterion, usually a clock or to a specific point. The competitors in a race try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of time. Typically this involves traversing some distance,...
Rallisport Challenge 2
R.C. Pro-Am II
Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride
Monster Truck Madness
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x Social Simulation      
x Kart racing Kart KF1 2007 02 Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing
Kart racing or karting is a variant of open-wheel motor sport with simple, small four-wheeled vehicles called karts, go-karts, or gearbox/shifter karts depending on the design. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits. Karting is commonly...
Super Mario Kart
x Massively multiplayer online first-person shooter Screenshot from World War II Online (2001) Neocron
Massively multiplayer online first-person shooter (MMOFPS) is a sub-category of the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) video game genre, which combines first-person shooter-style gameplay with the game design elements that typify the MMOG...
Huxley
PlanetSide
Parabellum
Soldier Front
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x Mecha The Land Walker is a 3.4 metre tall mechanised walker, capable of speeds up to 1.5 km/h MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf
Mecha, also known as meka or mechs, are walking vehicles controlled by a pilot, often appearing in anime, science fiction, or other genres involving a fantastic or futuristic element. Mecha are generally, though not necessarily, bipedal, with arms,...
Chousouju Mecha MG
G-Nome
Cyberbots
x Table tennis 240px-Pingpong equip.jpg Tennis for Two
Table tennis, also known as ping pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth with rackets (also known as "bats" or "paddles"). The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Players must allow...
x Dating sim Cover Feel the Magic: XY/XX
Dating sims (or dating simulations) are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements. They are also sometimes put under the category of neoromance. The most common objective of dating sims is to date, usually...
School Rumble: Nesan Jiken Desu
Crescendo
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 2
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x Racing game Gran Trak 10 (1974) F-Zero GX
A racing game is a genre of computer and video games. Racing games are either in the first or third person perspective. They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings, and feature any type of land, air,...
Rally Bike / Dash Yarou
Chase H.Q.
V-Rally 3
Rally Speedway
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x Fighting game Screenshot of The King of Fighters XI (2005, SNK Playmore). Variable Geo
In versus, or competitive fighting games, two players (sometimes more) each choose a character, and then fight against each other, generally over several rounds. The winner of a round either knocks out his opponent (usually by depleting an energy...
Robo Pit
Digimon Tamers: Battle Spirit Ver. 1.5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
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x Sandbox GTA: San Andreas is a "sandbox-style" game with a huge free-roaming map Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
A sandbox game (or a video game with an optional sandbox mode) is a video game with an open-ended and non-linear style of gameplay, or a reduced emphasis on structure. The sandbox analogy is used to describe this style of gaming because, as with a...
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
Steambot Chronicles
Destroy All Humans! 3
Prototype
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x Tactical shooter rainbow-six-vegas.jpg Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
A tactical shooter is a subgenre of shooter game that includes both first-person shooters and third-person shooters. These games typically simulate realistic combat, thus making tactics and caution more important than quick reflexes in other action...
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm
Vietcong
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
Deadly Dozen
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x Extreme sport Windsurf-wipeout Freekstyle
Extreme sports (also called action sport and adventure sport) is a media term for certain activities perceived as having a high level of inherent danger. These activities often involve speed, height, high level of physical exertion, highly...
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
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x Hack and slash The arcade version of Golden Axe Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II
Hack and slash or hack and slay refers to a type of gameplay that emphasizes close combat with short-range weapons. "Hack and slash" was originally used to describe an aspect of pen and paper role-playing games (RPGs). Hack and slash has its roots...
Diablo
Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus
Rune
Gauntlet Legends
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x Rail shooter Area 51, an example of an on-rails light gun shooter Star Wars Trilogy Arcade
Rail Shooter is a genre of shoot 'em up video games, deriving from the 'on-rails' movement featured in such games. In Shoot 'em up that the term is applicable to, control over movement is generally possible to the extent of allowing the player to...
Yoshi's Safari
The House of the Dead 2
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
World Combat
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x Scrolling shooter R-Type II, a horizontally-scrolling shooter Gradius Neo
Scrolling shooters are a type of video game, a subgenre of shoot 'em up. Such games feature backgrounds that appear to 'scroll' as the protagonist moves through them. Scrolling shooters feature 'top-down' or 'side-on' perspectives. A scrolling...
Alpha Mission
Strikers 1945 III
Star Fox
Thunder Force AC
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x Transport puzzle   Atomix
Transport puzzles are logistical puzzles, which often represent real-life transport problems. In transport puzzles you move yourself and/or tokens through a given landscape. As in rearrangement puzzles, no piece is ever lost or added to the board....
Rocks'n'Diamonds
x Tactical wargame Steel Panthers
Tactical wargames are a type of wargame that models military conflict at a tactical level, i.e. units range from individual vehicles and squads to platoons or companies. These units are rated based on types and ranges of individual weaponry. The...
Computer Ambush
Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles
Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command
Steel Panthers: World at War
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x Music video game   Guitar Hero II
A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs. Music video games may take a...
Dance Dance Revolution Konamix
EyeToy: Groove
Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 4
Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 2
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x Arcade game Recent 20th anniversary arcade machine, combining two or more classic video games. Hammer Heads
An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, public houses, video arcades, and Family Entertainment Centers. Most arcade games are redemption games, merchandisers (such as Claw crane...
Cyclone
Konami Arcade Classics
Duck Hunt
The Office Games
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x Space simulation   Star Trek: Klingon Academy
A space simulator is a system that tries to replicate or simulate outer space and/or the experience of space flight in a spacecraft as closely and realistically as possible. This includes full-size cockpit replicas mounted on hydraulic rams,...
O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base
Wing Commander: Armada
Galactic Empire
Star Wars: Starfighter
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x 4X Civilization II is a prototypical example of a 4X strategy game. Star Wars: Rebellion
4X games are a genre of strategy video game in which players control an empire and "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate". The term was first coined by Alan Emrich in his September 1993 preview of Master of Orion for Computer Gaming World....
The Tone Rebellion
Ascendancy
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire
Imperium Galactica II: Alliances
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x Add-on   San Andreas Multiplayer
Add-on may refer to:
Multi Theft Auto
GTA: Online
x Virtual world   Rise: The Vieneo Province
The computer accesses a computer-simulated world and presents perceptual stimuli to the user, who in turn can manipulate elements of the modeled world and thus experiences telepresence to a certain degree. Such modeled worlds may appear similar to...
Second Life
World of Warcraft
There
Active Worlds
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x MUD A MUD logon screen Materia Magica
In online gaming, a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon), pronounced /mĘŚd/, is a multi-user real-time virtual world described entirely in text. It combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, interactive fiction, and online chat. Players can read...
Dragon's Gate
The Inquisition
Lusternia, Age of Ascension
Astaria
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x Action game Image du jeu vidéo Abuse. Frontlines: Fuel of War
Action game refers to a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand-eye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes diverse subgenres such as fighting games, first-person shooters, and platform games. In an action...
Kao Challengers
Spawn: In the Demon's Hand
Dirty Harry: The War Against Drugs
Machi Kuru Domino
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x Training Christer Fuglesang underwater EVA simulation for STS-116 VBS1
The term training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. It forms the core of apprenticeships and...
VBS2
x Shoot 'em up galaga.png Silhouette Mirage
Shoot 'em up (also known as shmups) is a subgenre of shooter video games. In a shoot 'em up, the player controls a lone character, often a spacecraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses...
Lethal Xcess
Centipede
Triplane Turmoil 2
Bangai-O
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x Rugby league NRL Rugby League Field Australian Rugby League
Rugby league is a full-contact team sport, played with a prolate spheroid ball by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. Rugby league is one of the two codes of rugby football (the other being rugby union) and is arguably the...
x Side-scrolling NES Super Mario Bros Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor
A side-scrolling game or side-scroller is a video game in which the gameplay action is viewed from a side-view camera angle, and the onscreen characters generally move from the left side of the screen to the right. These games make use of scrolling...
Bible Adventures
The Lost Vikings
Secret Agent
Duke Nukem
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x Physical fitness A U.S. Marine sporting a high and tight, crew cut hairstyle Yourself!Fitness
Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness (a state of health and well-being) and specific fitness (a task-oriented definition based on the ability to perform specific aspects of sports or occupations). In previous years,...
x Computer Mahjong Mahjong Taikai Mahjong Taikai
A Mahjong video game is a video game that is based on the classical Chinese game mahjong. However, many mahjong video games, especially among those released in Western territories, do not depict the actual game of mahjong but rather mahjong...
x Computer role-playing game Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (2001), an example of a computer role-playing game Mount&Blade
A computer role-playing game (CRPG) is a broad video game genre originally developed for personal computers and other home computers. While technically not a separate genre, and sharing the same defining characteristics as console RPGs (also...
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Primal
Naruto RPG: Uketsugareshi Hi no Ishi
Descent to Undermountain
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x City-building game The SimCity series, a well known example of the city-building game type. (Screenshot from SimCity 3000) SimCity 3000
City-building games are a genre of computer game where players act as the overall planner and leader of a city, looking down on it from above, and being responsible for its growth and management. Players choose building placement and city management...
SimCity 4
SimCity
Utopia
Master of Olympus - Zeus
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x Console role-playing game Final Fantasy IV
A console role-playing game is a video game genre that has its origin rooted in video game consoles and includes game mechanics and, frequently, settings derived from those of traditional role-playing games. The term also applies to role-playing...
Persona
Guardian Heroes
Baten Kaitos Origins
Namco x Capcom
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x Pinball Picture of a pinball machine. The backglass can be seen to the right Metroid Prime Pinball
Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass-covered case called a pinball machine. The primary objective of the game is to...
Kirby's Pinball Land
Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire
Pro Pinball: The Web
Pinball
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x Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction Slim-pickens riding-the-bomb enh-lores Fallout
Post-Apocalyptic directly constitutes an occurrence that is after an apocaplyptic event. Post-Apocalpytic - After-Apocalypse Post-Apolcalyptic movies deal with many different scenarios often dealing with the end of man kind, the destruction of...
Fallout 2
Darkwind: War on Wheels
Fallout 3
Van Buren
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x Gambling Blackjack game example Golden Nugget 64
Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods. Typically, the outcome of the wager is evident within a short period....
x Point-and-click Chuck the plant as a cactus in Day of the Tentacle Diaspora
Point-and-click is the action of a computer user moving a cursor to a certain location on a screen (point) and then pressing a mouse button, usually the left button(click), or other pointing device. An example of point-and-click is in hypermedia,...
Tiny Toon Adventures: Toonenstein
Eerievale
Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster and the Beanstalk
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x Alternate reality game   Majestic
An alternate reality game (ARG), is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants' ideas or actions. The form is defined by...
Evidence: The Last Ritual
x Steampunk A rocket lands on the moon in Le Voyage dans la Lune, the film adaptation of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon Wild Arms 3
Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian...
Wild Arms 2
Wachenröder
Edge of Twilight
SteamBand
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x Dungeon crawl   Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja
A dungeon crawl is a type of role-playing game in which heroes navigate a labyrinthine environment, battling various monsters and looting any treasure they may find. Because of its simplicity, a dungeon crawl can be easier for a gamemaster to run...
Temple of Apshai
The Dungeon Revealed
Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon Toki/Yami no Tankentai
Dandy
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