10 born · 4 peaked · 2 died
Born in 1992 10
- ▲Blast ProcessingSega's 1992 marketing term for a feature of the Genesis that made it, according to the ad…
- ☠Dial-up HandshakeThe shriek two modems made agreeing to talk. The only sound in this dictionary that every…
- ●GOAT'Greatest of all time' — from a boxer's company name to a rapper's album to the argument …
- ↺Mortal KombatDigitised actors, a spine-ripping fatality and a moral panic. The 1992 arcade game's home…
- ●Muphry's LawAny criticism of someone's spelling will itself contain a spelling error. Named with the …
- ◐Post-TruthDescribing a public sphere in which feeling outweighs fact — post-truth — coined by Steve…
- ☠Surfing the WebMoving from page to page for the pleasure of it. Died as a phrase when there stopped bein…
- ●Technical DebtThe cost of doing something quickly now that must be repaid slowly later — technical debt…
- ●TrollSomeone posting to provoke a response. Started as a fishing metaphor for a specific joke …
- ▲Wolfenstein 3DA first-person run through a Nazi castle, released as shareware in May 1992, that made th…
Peaked in 1992 4
- ▲LemmingsGreen-haired creatures walk mindlessly towards cliffs and the player assigns them jobs to…
- ▲Prince of PersiaA one-hour dungeon escape whose running, jumping prince moved like a real person because …
- ↺Sonic the HedgehogSega's answer to Mario: a blue hedgehog with attitude, speed instead of precision, and a …
- ▲Street Fighter IIThe fighting game that filled arcades with queues of coins on the cabinet glass. Capcom's…