- The Tingle universe: A non-canon, tonally opposite spin-off of The Legend of Zelda featuring the questionable misadventures of a greedy, perverted 35-year-old man known simply and unwillingly as "Tingle" in a variety of rather bizarre and twisted situations where he learns corrupt moral lessons from a selection of unnerving and manipulative yet still whimsical supporting characters. These titles all take gameplay elements from lesser known earlier Nintendo titles, specifically Marvelous and Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru.
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- The Drill Dozer universe: A puzzle-action platformer made by Pokémon studio Game Freak, following a schoolgirl named Jill who pilots a powerful drill tank while leading a gang of thieves, all the while fighting a rival gang and a corrupt police force affiliated with them. It featured a rumble feature on its cartridge.
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- The Game Boy Camera universe: A black and white portable camera released by Nintendo for the Game Boy platform that allowed users to make, edit, and print photographs. It was a former holder of the title of "world's smallest digital camera", but is remembered even after losing the record thanks to a variety of bizarre easter eggs and references to earlier Nintendo titles - most notably being the first appearance of Pokémon characters in a game outside of Japan.
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- The Play It Loud! universe: A controversial marketing campaign enacted by Nintendo in the twilight years of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, aiming to recoup the teenage audience that they had lost with their censorship of Midway's Mortal Kombat, known for featuring adult humor, overwhelming imagery, and intense gross-out gags, despite still primarily advertising family-friendly Nintendo titles such as Yoshi's Island and Donkey Kong Country 3.
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- The ChuChu Rocket! universe: A duology of party puzzle games created by Sonic Team in which the player is tasked with placing down arrow tiles to escort mice known as ChuChus into a rocket, all the while making sure they don't get eaten by cat known as the Kapu Kapu. The first installment of this series, released on the Dreamcast in 1999, is notable for being the online supported title for the platform.
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- The Super Monkey Ball universe: A series of platforming titles released by Sega starting in the 2000s in which the player must tilt an abstract stage to navigate a ball containing a cartoon primate into a goal, known for its multiplayer side modes and the earlier titles' intense difficulty, which has made them popular for speedrunning. These titles have often been used to show off new hardware, such as motion and touch controls.
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- The Angry Birds universe: A Finnish multimedia franchise centering on a line of addictive physics-puzzle mobile games where the player must fling birds with different abilities from a slingshot into structures inhabited by pigs to help them regain their prized eggs. The series helped popularize mobile gaming in the early 2010s, and the characters have undergone many different designs and gameplay styles.
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- The Microsoft Windows universe: A ubiquitous line of proprietary graphical operating systems and related software developed by Microsoft from 1985 up to the present day, possible to find in almost every corner of daily life. Each iteration has become so wide spread as to be synonymous with its time period and the generation that grew up on it, gaining many fans who enjoy the platforms for their vintage aesthetics as opposed to any actual practical usage.
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- The PaRappa the Rapper universe: Sony's pioneering rhythm game series, dating back to the first PlayStation, about a young rapping dog named PaRappa, who will do absolutely anything to impress the love of his life, Sunny Funny the talking flower - ranging from mundane tasks like learning to drive and baking a cake, to more ridiculous scenarios such as saving the culinary world from noodle domination and waiting in line for a public toilet, all by singing songs of - despite the series' title - various genres and styles.
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- The Adventure universe: A hugely influential primitive open world RPG released on the Atari 2600, notable for too many firsts to name and a forerunner to the likes of Dragon Quest and The Legend of Zelda, in which the player must find a chalice and return it to a palace, all the while dealing with bats and seahorse-esque dragons.
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- The Bubsy universe: An infamous series of comedic platformers starring a wisecracking, narcissistic bobcat as he attempts to save the world, and himself, from a variety of oafish threats - chief among them the Woolies, a race of yarn-snatching aliens - the games, created by Accolade but currently property of Atari, are widely said to be of a low quality, but to the point where that has given them an iconic status of their own.
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- The Pajama Sam universe: A set of children’s point-and-click adventure games by Humongous Entertainment, branded in a wider franchise known as It's a Junior Adventure!, chronicling the adventures of a young boy named Sam as he learns moral lessons and meets wacky friends in fantastic, ambiguously imaginary worlds hiding within his house, ranging from healthy eating to overcoming the fear of the dark.
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- The Monty Mole universe: One of the first franchises created by legendary British microcomputer development house Gremlin Graphics. It depicts the serialized adventures of Monty Mole, a miner mole caught in the middle of a fictionalized version of the 1984 miners' strike, and his safebreaker ally Sam Stoat. They are notable for being among the first video games to tackle political issues, albeit in a tongue-in-cheek and apolitical manner.
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- The Pizza Tower universe: An indie platformer, inspired by the Wario Land franchise with a humorous artstyle similar to 90s cartoons such as Rocko's Modern Life or The Ren & Stimpy Show, where the player controls Peppino Spaghetti, a desperate pizza chef capable of undergoing surreal transformations and enacting brutal slapstick violence, who has to ascend and destroy the Pizza Tower room-by-room to prevent his pizzeria from being blown up with a laser, all the while dealing with a variety of strange, culinary-themed creatures.
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- The Anton universe: A series of indie platformers starring a red-skinned drunkard named Anton and a variety of demented, multi-colored characters. Originating as a set of Breakout-platformer hybrids known as "Antonball", it eventually spun off into a full-fledged platformer titled "Antonblast".
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- The Sims universe: Maxis' highly influential, best-selling series of sandbox life simulators spun off from SimCity where the player overlooks and controls various human families - both customized and pre-made - in their usually mundane but occasionally fantastical daily life, identifiable by the characters' nonsense "Simlish" language and the green plumbob that floats over their head.
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- The EA Sports universe: A division of Electronic Arts formerly known as Electronic Arts Sports Network, devoted to realistic annual sports simulation games, the most popular of which being the EA Sports FC soccer series, formerly known as FIFA, which has proven popular enough to outsell series such as Sonic the Hedgehog and Dragon Quest.
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- The Flappy Bird universe: A notoriously difficult mobile game released in 2013 where the player must tap to escort a bird named Faby across Mario-esque green pipes of varying lengths. Infamously, the game's viral popularity and unexpectedly high difficulty led to its creator voluntarily pulling the original from all digital storefronts, though its sequel, Flappy Birds Family, remains online.
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