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- noun video games A special item which, when obtained, provides the player with some asset that is necessary for or makes easier the process of beating the game.
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Examples
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Also, if you happen to have small quantities of food or groceries, it is not necessary to power-up all the cooling cases, but just one or two.
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Action mode comes with power-up zybbles and just one collision before you're reset to the title screen.
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Dokki Doki and Shugo Chara Pucchi Puchi! will follow the current anime series as its power-up.
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You best judge your jumps correctly or whether or not you should use a star power-up to zoom ahead or if you think you can totally outswim those jellyfish (you can't).
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-- I'm a little surprised that Morgaine would cast Konvikt away while leaving him with his creation-energy power-up.
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In order to power-up these criminals for use in “mechanical warfare and mayhem”, they go through orientation after the weaker criminals are violently weeded out.
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On the tech side, these traditionally-shaped camcorders power-up as soon as the 3-inch LCD flap is pulled open.
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The 400-millisec limit is in place to minimize the risk of a device being unplugged during power-up and has no impact on interoperability.
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Finally, when there's smoke pouring from your engine and shards of metal hanging off your chassis, the Repair power-up patches things up nicely.
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It's not an enormous range, but each power-up has a variety of uses, adding significant tactical depth.
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