Gameplay mechanics will seep into the real world, and not just on one-off occasions, like the Hide & Seek events, but as an expected part of life, on many different input devices, at any time of the day or night.
The game's arsenal of silly gadgets are often used well on one-off occasions, but mostly they just amplify how ancient the cover-shooter formula now feels.
Or that his own relentlessness, an asset in the everyday grind, drains and distracts his players on these one-off occasions, prevents them from playing cold when the situation is already hot.
"But having said that, on these one-off occasions there's always going to be a hero and it could be anyone.
Being known as a "Cup team" is a mixed compliment, implying the ability to raise your game for one-off occasions, but never to sustain it.
Phillips kept his trumpeter busy, with radio broadcasts and road tours, plus one-off occasions such as the Christmas staff party at Windsor Castle.
State proclamations are generally one-off occasions -- a day, week or month -- that honor a person, cause or raise awareness for a significant issue or event.
It has taken away their consistency, but made them more dangerous on the one-off occasion.
"They play to a consistently high standard every week and a team that is less consistent over the course of the season can rise above them on the one-off occasion," Moody says.
When Rangers and Celtic are reunited at Hampden Park on Sunday, it will be a one-off occasion and probably not particularly pleasant.
"But because of the earthquake, and the sentiment it has generated, all those barriers and hurdles have been able to be overcome for this special one-off occasion".
