Words and phrases you first learned from video games...
Recently someone in a facebook group mentioned that Final Fantasy 6 was their first RPG, and how his mother first warmed him that he may not enjoy the game because there was "a lot of reading in it". He then jokingly thanked FF6 for improving his reading skills. He was kidding (I think) but it got me wondering. What are some words and phrases that you remember being introduced to in video games? I'm focusing more on general terms, and excluding the names of mythical creatures and the like.
A few I recall learning from video games are:
Ammonite - Phantasy Star
Citadel* - Space Harrier (SMS version)
Epilogue and Prologue - Space Harrier (SMS version)
Gauntlet - Gauntlet (arcade) As in running the gauntlet, I knew about the 'glove'.
Outskirts - Phantasy Star
Paramecium - Forgotten Worlds
Plateau - Phantasy Star
Thwart - Several games, I don't recall the first
Xenophobe - Xenophobe (arcade)
*Citadel is easily my least favorite word in the English language. I've just always REALLY hated the way it sounds. :^/
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