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is a Japanese raising simulation video game developed by Metro and published by Namco (later Namco Bandai Games).^[1]

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Achievement (video games)

In video gaming, an achievement (or a trophy) is a meta-goal defined outside a game's parameters, a digital reward that signifies a player's mastery of a specific task or challenge within a video game.

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ALL.Net

ALL.Net (Amusement Linkage Live Network, not to be confused with the website www.all.net) is an arcade video game network communication system and digital distribution system made by Sega Corporation.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Amusement arcade

An amusement arcade, also known as a video arcade, amusements, arcade, or penny arcade (an older term), is a venue where people play arcade games, including arcade video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers (such as claw cranes), or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables.

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Arcade game

An arcade game or coin-op game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.

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Arcade video game

An arcade video game takes player input from its controls, processes it through electrical or computerized components, and displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display.

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Asayan

Asayan, originally known as was a talent search variety show that aired on TV Tokyo from 1995 to 2002.

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, formerly, is a Japanese publisher and brand company of Kadokawa Future Publishing headquartered in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Bandai

is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo.

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Bandai Namco Entertainment

is a Japanese multinational video game publisher owned by Bandai Namco Holdings.

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Bishōjo game

A or is "a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive girls". The Idolmaster (video game) and Bishōjo game are raising sims.

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Degree of difficulty

Degree of difficulty (DD, sometimes called tariff or grade) is a concept used in several sports and other competitions to indicate the technical difficulty of a skill, performance, or course, often as a factor in scoring.

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Derby Owners Club

is a horse racing arcade game developed by Sega AM3 and published by Sega.

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Digital card

The term digital card can refer to a physical item, such as a memory card on a camera, or, increasingly since 2017, to the digital content hosted as a virtual card or cloud card, as a digital virtual representation of a physical card.

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Downloadable content

Downloadable content (DLC) is additional content created for an already released video game, distributed through the Internet by the game's publisher.

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Famitsu

, formerly, is a line of Japanese video game magazines published by Kadokawa Game Linkage (previously known as Gzbrain), a subsidiary of Kadokawa.

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Fan mail

Fan mail is mail sent to a public figure, especially a celebrity, by their admirers or "fans".

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Gameplay

Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games.

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HUD (video games)

In video gaming, the HUD (heads-up display) or status bar is the method by which information is visually relayed to the player as part of a game's user interface.

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Japanese idol

An is a type of entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese pop culture.

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Kadokawa Shoten

, formerly, is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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Life simulation game

Life simulation games form a subgenre of simulation video games in which the player lives or controls one or more virtual characters (human or otherwise).

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Mainichi Shimbun

The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by In addition to the Mainichi Shimbun, which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called The Mainichi (previously Mainichi Daily News, abbreviated MDN), and publishes a bilingual news magazine, Mainichi Weekly.

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Minigame

A minigame (also spelled mini game and mini-game, sometimes called a subgame or microgame) is a short game often contained within another video game.

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Moe (slang)

, sometimes romanized as moé, is a Japanese word that refers to feelings of strong affection mainly towards characters in anime, manga, video games, and other media directed at the otaku market.

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Morning Musume

, formerly and commonly known as and colloquially referred to as, is a Japanese girl group, holding the second highest overall single sales (of a female group) on the Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top-ten singles, having 64 of them.

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Motion capture

Motion capture (sometimes referred as mo-cap or mocap, for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people.

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Multiplayer video game

A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g.

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Music video game

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.

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Namco

was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo.

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Namco System 246

The Namco System 246 is a development of the Sony PlayStation 2 technology as a basis for an arcade system board.

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Nippon Columbia

, often pronounced Korombia, operating internationally as, is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as Nipponophone Co., Ltd.

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Non-player character

A non-player character (NPC), also called a non-playable character, is a character in a game that is not controlled by a player.

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Platinum Hits

Platinum Hits is a term used to refer to a line of select Xbox games that were considered by Microsoft to have sold considerable units on the platform in the nine months after release, and have dropped in price from their original MSRP to a newer, lower price, generally that of $19.99, although multi-game packs may sell for more.

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Porting

In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g., different CPU, operating system, or third party library).

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise (known colloquially as kayfabe), that the performers are competitive wrestlers.

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Rhythm game

Rhythm game or rhythm action is a genre of music-themed action video game that challenges a player's sense of rhythm.

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Saved game

A saved game (also called a game save, savegame, savefile, save point, or simply save) is a piece of digitally stored information about the progress of a player in a video game.

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Sega

is a Japanese multinational video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo.

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Single (music)

In music, a single is a type of release of a song recording of fewer tracks than an album or LP record, typically one or two tracks.

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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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Songwriter

A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both.

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Statistic (role-playing games)

A statistic (or stat) in role-playing games is a piece of data that represents a particular aspect of a fictional character.

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Target audience

The target audience is the intended audience or readership of a publication, advertisement, or other message catered specifically to the previously intended audience.

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The Idolmaster

is a Japanese media franchise that began in 2005 with a raising simulation and rhythm video game series created by Bandai Namco Entertainment (formerly Namco).

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Theme music

Theme music is a musical composition which is often written specifically for radio programming, television shows, video games, or films and is usually played during the title sequence, opening credits, closing credits, and in some instances at some point during the program.

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Tokimeki Memorial

is a dating simulation series by Konami.

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Toshiyuki Kubooka

is a Japanese animator, character designer, and director.

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Touchscreen

A touchscreen (or touch screen) is a type of display that can detect touch input from a user.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Video game console

A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller.

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Video game design

Video game design is the process of designing the rules and content of video games in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the production stage.

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Video game producer

A video game producer is the top person in charge off overseeing development of a video game.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) 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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Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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Xbox Games Store

Xbox Games Store (formerly Xbox Live Marketplace) was a digital distribution platform previously used by Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console and formerly by the Xbox One.

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Xbox network

The Xbox network, formerly known and commonly referred to as Xbox LIVE, is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Gaming for the Xbox brand.

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3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3-D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering digital images, usually 2D images but sometimes 3D images.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idolmaster_(video_game)

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Music management games

Raising sims

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