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flip-screen

flip-screen adjective: not scrolling, but composed of linked screens between which the player can travel.

Adjective

flip-screen (not comparable)

  1. Not scrolling, but composed of linked screens between which the player can travel.
    • Learic and Leanoric concoct their spells by travelling round the flip-screen landscape, collecting rare herbs and roots from the countryside.1987, Feud (review in Crash magazine issue 38)
    • Yes, that's right, you've correctly deduced from the plot that what we're talking about here is a flip-screen adventure, each screen presenting you with a few baddies to beat up and one or two problems to solve before you can progress onto the next one.1990, Hammerfist (review in Your Sinclair magazine issue 54)
    Synonyms:
    flick-screen

Synonyms of flip-screen

Questions about flip-screen

What does flip-screen mean?
Flip-screen means not scrolling, but composed of linked screens between which the player can travel.
What part of speech is flip-screen?
Flip-screen is an adjective.

Words near flip-screen in the dictionary

  1. flip-ins
  2. flip-out
  3. flip-outs
  4. flip-phone
  5. flip-phones
  6. flip-screen
  7. flip-top
  8. flip-up
  9. flip-ups
  10. flipboard
  11. flipboards

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