| Golden Sun | ... the Tales Series, Dark Souls, Eternal Sonata, Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, | , and the Baten Kaitos games, as well as numerous Mario Sports games |
| Fable III | ... nd The Movies; in addition, the studio may potentially have been working on | and The Dimitri Project |
| SimCopter | ... nd in the meantime Maxis produced other "Sim" games. Wright's next game was | (1996). Although none of these games were as successful as SimCity, they f ... |
| Impossible Mission | ... ndo, Paperboy and Yie Ar Kung-Fu) or other home computer systems (including | , Jet Set Willy, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Tetris, The Last Ninja, Ba ... |
| Jet Set Radio | ... ies which have been considered creative and innovative, such as Crazy Taxi, | , and Shenmue. The console itself was widely hailed as ahead of its time, ... |
| Anarchy Online | ... s the first MMORPG to begin to use a rudimentary form of this technique and | would develop it further, using instances as a key element of gameplay. Si ... |
| Yie Ar Kung-Fu | ... arcade machines (including Crystal Castles, Tempest, Commando, Paperboy and | ) or other home computer systems (including Impossible Mission, Jet Set Wi ... |
| X-Squad | ... merican game developers to break into. EA Square had also developed a game, | , which was released for the PlayStation 2 during its launch |
| Crazy Taxi | ... tation Network. The first two titles to be released are Sonic Adventure and | , followed by Sega Bass Fishing and Space Channel 5 Part 2 |
| Crazy Taxi | ... new game series which have been considered creative and innovative, such as | , Jet Set Radio, and Shenmue. The console itself was widely hailed as ahea ... |
| Amberstar | ... d Thalion Software and wrote music for them. His musical track for the game | is considered among his best works, and the game and Hippel's music acquir ... |
| Kingdom Hearts | ... video game realm, Bass voiced the Final Fantasy VII character Sephiroth in | . On August 14, 2007, Bass began a six-month stint playing Corny Collins i ... |
| Midtown Madness | ... imulator software program. It is an airport that is featured in Microsoft's | computer game (1999) and Reflections' Driver 2 video game, which are based ... |
| The Simpsons Game | ... figurines. She has appeared in each of The Simpsons video games, including | , released in 2007. Besides the television series, Marge regularly appears ... |
| The Blue Destiny | ... mobile suits built with the EXAM System and sharing a Newtype human soul in | |
| Jet Set Willy | ... e Ar Kung-Fu) or other home computer systems (including Impossible Mission, | , The Way of the Exploding Fist, Tetris, The Last Ninja, Barbarian and Sim ... |
| NetHack | ... , or enchanted, with curses and enchantments working in a manner similar to | . Although items do not break with use, they may already be broken or rust ... |
| The Movies | ... White series). Lionhead proper was working on three games: Fable, B&W2 and | ; in addition, the studio may potentially have been working on Fable III a ... |
| Driver 2 | ... atured in Microsoft's Midtown Madness computer game (1999) and Reflections' | video game, which are based in Chicago. The airport area is also the centr ... |
| Super Smash Bros. Melee | ... the Pokémon Ranger titles, Pokémon Rumble, and . Blastoise also appears in | as both a Pokémon that can be summoned from the Poké Ball item to use agai ... |
| Sonic Adventure | ... ive Arcade and PlayStation Network. The first two titles to be released are | and Crazy Taxi, followed by Sega Bass Fishing and Space Channel 5 Part 2 |
| Quake | ... techies; they detest him and frequently retaliate with pranks. He sucks at | , even once managing to die at the startup screen in Quake III Arena; in a ... |
| The Realm Online | ... amount of data that needs to be sent to and from the server, reducing lag. | was the first MMORPG to begin to use a rudimentary form of this technique ... |
| The Sims 3 | ... nd nine stuff packs have been released for the sequel. The third rendition, | , was released by EA in 2009. However, production of the game, its expansi ... |
| Quake III Arena | ... anks. He sucks at Quake, even once managing to die at the startup screen in | ; in addition, he manages to die by falling into lava in any game that con ... |
| Super Robot Wars Judgement | ... character and has actually never missed a single game. This all changed in | for the Game Boy Advance and Super Robot Wars W for the Nintendo DS. So fa ... |
| Dragonstomper | ... id (an early version of Suicide Mission) and Excalibur (an early version of | ), as well as a number of homebrew games by permission of their respective ... |
| Island of Kesmai | ... 1 (1978). 1985 saw the release of a roguelike (pseudo-graphical) MUD called | on CompuServe and Lucasfilm's graphical MUD Habitat. The first fully graph ... |
| Chrono Cross | ... ting of Dragon Quest VI is considered an influence on the later Square RPGs | and Final Fantasy X. The Dragon Quest series was recognized by Guinness Wo ... |
| SimAnt | Following the success of SimCity, Wright designed SimEarth (1990) and | (1991). He co-designed SimCity 2000 (1993) with Fred Haslam and in the mea ... |
| Tetris | ... including Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, The Way of the Exploding Fist, | , The Last Ninja, Barbarian and SimCity) |
| Dragon Quest | ... hii and Ken Narita. Following the successful North American localization of | , Nintendo of America translated Final Fantasy into English and published ... |
| Dragon Warrior | ... n Quest was first released in Japan on May 27, 1986 and in North America as | in August 1989. Dragon Quest II Akuryo no Kamigami was released in Japan i ... |
| WorldForge | ... thers feature proprietary content made with an open-source game engine. The | project has been active since 1998 and formed a community of independent d ... |
| Total Recall | ... to the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. The 1990 film | as well as its 2012 remake of the same name are both loose adaptations of ... |
| Dragon Quest | ... the graphics are awesome." 1UP also criticized the title's similarities to | , but in the end declared EarthBound a game "worth experiencing." Nintendo ... |
| Pokémon Rumble | ... mon Trozei!, the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon titles, the Pokémon Ranger titles, | , and . Blastoise also appears in Super Smash Bros. Melee as both a Pokémo ... |
| The Way of the Exploding Fist | ... r other home computer systems (including Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, | , Tetris, The Last Ninja, Barbarian and SimCity) |
| The Sims 2 | ... for the game as well as an online version (The Sims Online). Maxis released | in 2004, a sequel title that features a full 3D environment as opposed to ... |
| Final Fantasy VII | ... Handy Manny and Higglytown Heroes. In the video game realm, Bass voiced the | character Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts. On August 14, 2007, Bass began a si ... |
| Final Fantasy | ... ng an order on another upcoming Square role-playing game in a similar vein: | |
| SimCity | ... Willy, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Tetris, The Last Ninja, Barbarian and | ) |
| Super Robot Wars W | ... This all changed in Super Robot Wars Judgement for the Game Boy Advance and | for the Nintendo DS. So far, almost every single major Gundam series has m ... |
| The Sims | ... most successful series to date and the best-selling PC game of all time is | (2000). Maxis has developed seven expansion packs for the game as well as ... |
| Call of Duty | ... nt day, including first-person shooters such as Wolfenstein, Doom, Halo and | . Space Invaders also had an influence on early computer dungeon crawl gam ... |
| Second Life | ... y promote the idea of linking (and directly profiting from) an exchange. In | and Entropia Universe, the virtual economy and the real-world economy are ... |
| The Last Ninja | ... g Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Tetris, | , Barbarian and SimCity) |
| Entropia Universe | ... ea of linking (and directly profiting from) an exchange. In Second Life and | , the virtual economy and the real-world economy are directly linked. This ... |
| Wings of Death | ... g real instruments and often contained sampled speech examples of which are | and Lethal Xcess |
| Pokémon Ranger | ... n Pokémon Pinball, Pokémon Trozei!, the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon titles, the | titles, Pokémon Rumble, and . Blastoise also appears in Super Smash Bros. ... |
| The Sims Online | ... developed seven expansion packs for the game as well as an online version ( | ). Maxis released The Sims 2 in 2004, a sequel title that features a full ... |
| Shenmue | ... considered creative and innovative, such as Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, and | . The console itself was widely hailed as ahead of its time, and is still ... |
| SimCity 2000 | ... SimCity, Wright designed SimEarth (1990) and SimAnt (1991). He co-designed | (1993) with Fred Haslam and in the meantime Maxis produced other "Sim" gam ... |
| Final Fantasy | ... hilharmonic also performed the first North American concert for the popular | franchise game music, by Nobuo Uematsu. The orchestra has most recently re ... |
| Tom Clancy's EndWar | Rovaniemi appears in the video game | as a possible battlefield. In the game, Rovaniemi houses military faciliti ... |
| SimTower | ... so released games developed by other production houses, such as A-Train and | |
| Final Fantasy | ... al Fantasy Adventure, known as Mystic Quest in Europe and as in Japan, is a | spinoff and the first game in the Mana series. Published by Square in 1991 ... |
| Descent 4 | Around that time, Volition also began work on | , but development was canceled in 2000, owing mostly to disappointing sale ... |
| The Shadow of Yserbius | ... arly proprietary graphical online RPGs include three on The Sierra Network: | in 1992, The Fates of Twinion in 1993, and The Ruins of Cawdor in 1995. An ... |
| Final Fantasy | ... not as successful outside Japan, as it was eclipsed by another RPG series, | . Because of Enix's closure in the mid-1990s, Dragon Quest V and Dragon Qu ... |
| Space Raiders | ... ollector's items, though some are considered rarer. In 2002, Taito released | , a third-person shooter reminiscent of Space Invaders |
| The Yukon Trail | ... everal sequels to the game were also released, such as The Oregon Trail II, | , and The Amazon Trail. The game resurfaced in 2008 when Gameloft created ... |
| Final Fantasy | ... adio version, Kale Browne provided the voice of Biggs. Several games in the | series have a pair of minor characters named after Biggs and Wedge Antille ... |
| Rock Band 3 | The song Rainbow in the Dark appears in " | . |
| Pokémon Mystery Dungeon | ... the main series, Blastoise is seen in Pokémon Pinball, Pokémon Trozei!, the | titles, the Pokémon Ranger titles, Pokémon Rumble, and . Blastoise also ap ... |
| Red Faction | ... l to Descent, and reportedly served as a basis for the first-person shooter | . Similarities include a reference to a "humans first" strike in Descents ... |
| Saints Row 2 | In the video game | , the Ronin were a "Yakuza"-style with traits from the Bōsōzoku with the b ... |
| Super Smash Bros. Brawl | ... ditor Lucas M. Thomas listed the dog as a character he would like to see in | , calling him the most despised animal character in Nintendo history. Game ... |
| Joe Blade | ... ing in graphical flicker or visible redraw. A notable exception is Players' | series |
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| The Sims 2 | ... the best-selling computer games of all time, The Sims and its first sequel, | . These titles and their related products are the brand's most popular and ... |
| Child of Eden | A prequel, | , has been released for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, published by Ubisoft. ... |
| The Amazon Trail | ... game were also released, such as The Oregon Trail II, The Yukon Trail, and | . The game resurfaced in 2008 when Gameloft created an updated version for ... |
| Lucky Dime Caper | ... bosses in most of the DuckTales video games and in the 2000 video game . In | , she appears as the main antagonist |
| Dungeons of Daggorath | ... nvaders also had an influence on early computer dungeon crawl games such as | , which used similar heartbeat sounds to indicate player health |
| Final Fantasy VII | ... CDs for the Sony PlayStation, the games were instead made for PlayStation. | was one of these games, and it sold 9.8 million copies, making it the seco ... |
| Second Life | ... ht became a member of the Board of Directors of Linden Lab, the creators of | |
| Escape from Monkey Island | ... aracters. After Grim Fandango, a slightly improved GrimE engine was used in | , the fourth game in the Monkey Island series. So far, these are the only ... |
| SimEarth | Following the success of SimCity, Wright designed | (1990) and SimAnt (1991). He co-designed SimCity 2000 (1993) with Fred Has ... |
| Mass Effect 2 | ... , he played the role of the Illusive Man in the highly acclaimed video game | , and the sequel, Mass Effect 3 |
| The Sims | ... Maxis is the creator of one of the best-selling computer games of all time, | and its first sequel, The Sims 2. These titles and their related products ... |
| Eternal Sonata | ... ideo game composer. He is known for composing the Tales Series, Dark Souls, | , Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, Golden Sun, and the Baten Kaitos games, as ... |
| Unreal Tournament | ... together as Unreal Gold. Additionally, the games were updated to run on the | version of the game engine |
| World of Warcraft | In | , a temporary design glitch attracted the attention of psychologists and e ... |
| Grim Fandango | ... ch more sophisticated movements and actions by non-player characters. After | , a slightly improved GrimE engine was used in Escape from Monkey Island, ... |
| Total Recall | Twins (1988), a comedy with Danny DeVito also proved successful. | (1990) netted Schwarzenegger $10 million and 15% of the gross, and was a s ... |
| Freeciv.net | ... , QNX, OS/2, Cygwin, AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs. | is a version of Freeciv playable online in any modern web browser; it was ... |
| Pokémon Trozei! | ... on title. Outside of the main series, Blastoise is seen in Pokémon Pinball, | , the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon titles, the Pokémon Ranger titles, Pokémon R ... |
| Keystone Kapers | In 1983, a video game called | was released for the Atari 2600, 5200, and later Colecovision. Playing as ... |
| Super Robot Wars | The Gundam metaverse makes regular appearances in the | series by Banpresto. In fact, there has not been a single non-Banpresto Or ... |
| Cardcaptor Sakura | ... sed in anime and manga such as Magic Knight Rayearth, Please Save My Earth, | , Digimon and Sailor Moon. The tower is also frequently used in the Japane ... |
| Stratovox | ... deo game to feature speech synthesis was the 1980 shoot 'em up arcade game, | , from Sun Electronics. , GamesRadar Another early example was the arcade ... |
| Final Fantasy Mystic Quest | ... th the addition of role-playing video game statistical elements. Along with | , Final Fantasy Adventure was the first Final Fantasy game to be released ... |
| Super Smash Bros. series | EarthBound has been featured in all of the titles of the blockbuster | . Since the first title in the series, Ness has consistently appeared as a ... |
| Star Ocean | ... er. He is known for composing the Tales Series, Dark Souls, Eternal Sonata, | , Valkyrie Profile, Golden Sun, and the Baten Kaitos games, as well as num ... |
| Battlefield 3 | The first-person shooter video game, | features skid loaders in the maps Wake Island on all consoles and Gulf of ... |
| Spore | ... em with about seventy terraformed planets and moons. In the 2008 video game | , the player is able to terraform any planet by using either terraforming ... |
| SimCity Societies | ... imCity Societies) and three spin-offs (, SimCopter and Streets of SimCity). | , the fifth main release for the franchise, was not produced by Maxis, but ... |
| Wii Play | ... 00 NES Games of All Time" feature. A remake homage to Duck Hunt appeared in | in the form of its Shooting Range minigame which features ducks and clay p ... |
| SimCity | Maxis was founded in 1987 by Will Wright and Jeff Braun to help publish | on home computers. Before then, the game was only available on a limited b ... |
| Space Invaders | ... eas features several arcade-like games, including 'Invaders from Uranus' (A | parody). GTA 4 has another arcade game called 'Cub3d'. Also, while not pla ... |
| Age of Empires III | ... and its waters form the main plot device in Microsoft and Ensemble Studio's | campaign "Blood, Ice and Steel". Recently, characters in the 2006 Darren A ... |
| Grim Fandango | ... sArts using the free software scripting language Lua. It was first used for | . Partly based on the Sith engine, GrimE was the successor to SCUMM, prese ... |
| Way of the Samurai | ... ōzoku with the belief in maintaining honor and tradition. In the video game | the main character Kenji is a Ronin who wanders the village of Rokkotsu Pa ... |
| Kingdom Hearts II | ... has provided Piglet's voice since Fielder's death. He has voiced Piglet in | , Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (only for the newest material since muc ... |
| Sega Bass Fishing | ... t two titles to be released are Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi, followed by | and Space Channel 5 Part 2 |
| Valkyrie Profile | ... own for composing the Tales Series, Dark Souls, Eternal Sonata, Star Ocean, | , Golden Sun, and the Baten Kaitos games, as well as numerous Mario Sports ... |
| SimCopter | ... 2000, SimCity 3000, SimCity 4 and SimCity Societies) and three spin-offs (, | and Streets of SimCity). SimCity Societies, the fifth main release for the ... |
| Space Invaders Extreme | ... gameplay and integrate new elements into the original design. For example, | , released on the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, integrated musical ... |
| Pokémon Pinball | ... n each main Pokémon title. Outside of the main series, Blastoise is seen in | , Pokémon Trozei!, the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon titles, the Pokémon Ranger ... |
| Quake II | ... ne, and the Unreal game itself was considered to be technically superior to | , which was out on the market at the same time (between December 1997 and ... |
| Velvet Assassin | The Video game | by Replay Studios is based off of Szabo's life as an allied spy during WWI ... |
| SimCity | ... zza party." Together they formed Maxis the next year in Orinda, California. | (1989) was a hit and has been credited as one of the most influential comp ... |
| Kingdom Hearts | ... Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Saga Frontier, Romancing Saga, Vagrant Story, | (done in collaboration with Disney Interactive), and (done under the guida ... |
| Streets of SimCity | ... 3000, SimCity 4 and SimCity Societies) and three spin-offs (, SimCopter and | ). SimCity Societies, the fifth main release for the franchise, was not pr ... |
| Treasure Isle (Zynga game) | Treasure Isle re-directs here. For the game, see | |
| Quake | ... to see (though it also exists for game balance reasons). In the video game | , picking up a magic ring turns the player invisible to monsters for thirt ... |
| GTA | In many video games, including the | series, mini-games exist that are non-plot oriented, and optional to the c ... |
| Space Invaders Get Even | ... grated musical elements into the standard gameplay. A spin-off for WiiWare, | , allows players to control the aliens instead of the laser cannon. In 198 ... |
| Karous | ... published by Sega of Japan were the 2007 releases Trigger Heart Exelica and | |
| Vagrant Story | ... encer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Saga Frontier, Romancing Saga, | , Kingdom Hearts (done in collaboration with Disney Interactive), and (don ... |
| Frogger | ... wo other companies producing games for it: Parker Brothers released Popeye, | , Q* Bert and Super Cobra, while Imagic released versions of their hit gam ... |
| Bonanza Bros. | ... vision; a similar later game, whose title features similar alliteration, is | (1990). The Keystone Kops also appear in the computer game NetHack, usuall ... |
| SimCity Societies | ... ncludes five main games (SimCity, SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, SimCity 4 and | ) and three spin-offs (, SimCopter and Streets of SimCity). SimCity Societ ... |
| Descent 3 | ... and the Descent Mission Builder 2. There was also a preview of the upcoming | |
| Xenogears | Yasunori Mitsuda is a highly known composer of such games as | , Xenosaga Episode I, Chrono Cross, and Chrono Trigger |
| World of Warcraft | ... this region was later seen as a ladder map in Warcraft III and as a zone in | ). Also, one of Tomator’s monitors shows Rock 'N' Roll Racing playing |
| Radilgy | ... division of Japan in early 2006. These refurbished units were bundled with | and a phone card. The last Dreamcast games published by Sega of Japan were ... |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 | ... one for Unreal Tournament for $150,000 in cash and prizes, and another for | for one million in cash and prizes |
| MapleStory | ... at make use of this model often have originated in Korea, such as Flyff and | . This business model is alternately called "pay for perks" or "freemium", ... |
| Brave Fencer Musashi | ... as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, Xenogears, | , Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Saga Frontier, Romancing Saga, Vagrant Sto ... |
| Descent II | ... f Skinny Puppy), prerendered cinematics (using the same cinematic engine as | ), and radiosity colored lighting effects |
| Tetris | ... cused on dreaming. In one experiment, participants played the computer game | for three days and reported dreaming about falling geometric shapes. Even ... |
| Super Cobra | ... oducing games for it: Parker Brothers released Popeye, Frogger, Q* Bert and | , while Imagic released versions of their hit games Demon Attack and Atlan ... |
| Halo 3 | ... (2000), Max Payne (2001), Valhalla Knights (2006), Final Fantasy XI (2002), | (2007), and Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011). Amusement park attractions named ... |
| SimCity 4 | ... . The series includes five main games (SimCity, SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, | and SimCity Societies) and three spin-offs (, SimCopter and Streets of Sim ... |
| DuckTales 2 | In the NES game | , Scrooge and his nephews found a piece of a treasure map that apparently ... |
| Chrono Cross | ... is a highly known composer of such games as Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I, | , and Chrono Trigger |
| Flyff | ... . Games that make use of this model often have originated in Korea, such as | and MapleStory. This business model is alternately called "pay for perks" ... |
| Final Fantasy XI | ... (1995), Valkyrie Profile (2000), Max Payne (2001), Valhalla Knights (2006), | (2002), Halo 3 (2007), and Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011). Amusement park att ... |
| Tetris | His favorite video game is | . In the 1990s he submitted so many high scores for the game to that they ... |
| Tetris | ... ting keywords in program source code, and a library for playing the game of | . Each library is implemented using one or more Emacs Lisp source files |
| FarmVille | ... erives from statistic games like Mafia Wars and asset management games like | |
| SimCity | ... tually playing the game. He created a new game that would later evolve into | , but he had trouble finding a publisher. The structuralist dynamics of th ... |
| Super Smash Bros. | ... stently appeared as a playable character. In the first title of the series, | , Ness appeared as a hidden character, unlocked by beating the 1 player mo ... |
| Mafia Wars | ... Cheech & Chong's Animated Game. Gameplay derives from statistic games like | and asset management games like FarmVille |
| Chrono Trigger | ... composer of such games as Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I, Chrono Cross, and | |
| Age of Empires | ... ns Stoltenberg used as his online alias when playing computer games such as | |
| World of Warcraft | They most recently appeared as NPCs in Blizzard's MMORPG | in the dungeon Uldaman. One of the quests in Uldaman also requires the pla ... |
| Xenogears | ... games such as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, | , Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Saga Frontier, Roman ... |
| The Neverhood | ... y line, and cartoon series. In 1996, working for Dreamworks, he created for | for the PC. The sequel, entitled Skullmonkeys, followed in 1998 |
| Descent to Undermountain | In 1997, Interplay released | , an RPG that used a modified version of the Descent graphics engine, but ... |
| Final Fantasy XII | ... here the player can set the AI routines for NPCs, is seen as a precursor to | s "Gambits" system. Dragon Quest V is cited as having monster recruiting a ... |
| Propeller Arena | ... Scooter and Conflict Zone During the following years, unreleased games like | , Hellgate, and Half-Life were leaked to the Internet in essentially compl ... |
| Super Mario Bros. 2 | ... f Nintendo's NES game, , which, for Western audiences, was transformed into | . In Japan, the character is known to his Japanese name as Mamu (マム, Mamū) |
| Skullmonkeys | ... r Dreamworks, he created for The Neverhood for the PC. The sequel, entitled | , followed in 1998 |
| Zoo Tycoon 2 | ... s available in the Marine Mania expansion pack of Zoo Tycoon and its sequel | |
| Civilization II | ... ic rules, so it can be played in Freeciv (default) mode, Civilization mode, | mode, or a custom mode. One or several players act as game administrators ... |
| SimCity 3000 | ... city's economy. The series includes five main games (SimCity, SimCity 2000, | , SimCity 4 and SimCity Societies) and three spin-offs (, SimCopter and St ... |
| NetHack | ... is Bonanza Bros. (1990). The Keystone Kops also appear in the computer game | , usually when the player steals from one of the shops. They are more dang ... |
| Team Fortress 2 | Tie-in literature for the class-based multiplayer shooter video game | lists the Engineer, an amiable Texan in a hard hat and with a penchant for ... |
| Battlestar Galactica Online | ... nature where you can co-op or dogfight with up to 8 people over Xbox Live. | is a 3D browser-based MMOG released as an open beta on February 8, 2011 by ... |
| Razor Freestyle Scooter | ... teractive publishing the last batch of PAL titles such as , Cannon Spike, , | and Conflict Zone During the following years, unreleased games like Propel ... |
| SimCity 2000 | ... imulating the city's economy. The series includes five main games (SimCity, | , SimCity 3000, SimCity 4 and SimCity Societies) and three spin-offs (, Si ... |
| Earthworm Jim | In 1994, he created | , the character that would star in Shiny Entertainment's video game, toy l ... |
| Legend of Mana | ... er widely known games such as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana, | , Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Saga Fron ... |
| Zoo Tycoon | ... a Ray is one of the animals available in the Marine Mania expansion pack of | and its sequel Zoo Tycoon 2 |
| Quake II | ... ns of 3D graphics considerably. Compared to its peers in the genre, such as | , Unreal brought to life not only highly-detailed indoor environments, but ... |
| Chrono Cross | Square has also made other widely known games such as Chrono Trigger, | , Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasit ... |
| Valkyrie Profile | Valhalla is referenced in the video game titles Valhalla (1983), (1995), | (2000), Max Payne (2001), Valhalla Knights (2006), Final Fantasy XI (2002) ... |
| Jet Set Radio | ... s and missions for games such as Phantasy Star Online and Skies of Arcadia. | , a Dreamcast original, popularized cel-shaded graphics. Shenmue had intro ... |
| Mother 3 | ... eled. This project eventually resurfaced as a Game Boy Advance title called | and was released only in Japan. Like Mother, Mother 3 has only a loose con ... |
| Secret of Evermore | ... he SNES and Sony's Wild Arms 3 for the PlayStation 2. It developed the game | for the SNES. It is currently known as Square Enix, Inc. Square Soft's ori ... |
| Midtown Madness | In | released by Microsoft in 1999, the player is free to drive around a comput ... |
| Secret of Mana | ... as also made other widely known games such as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, | , Legend of Mana, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Parasite ... |
| RuneScape | ... y, , and Atlantica Online. Also, there are some free-to-play games, such as | & Tibia, where the game is free, but one would have to pay monthly to play ... |
| Valhalla | Valhalla is referenced in the video game titles | (1983), (1995), Valkyrie Profile (2000), Max Payne (2001), Valhalla Knight ... |
| SimCity | ... s and stimulating the city's economy. The series includes five main games ( | , SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, SimCity 4 and SimCity Societies) and three s ... |
| ChuChu Rocket! | ... SegaNet (Dreamarena in Europe), a precursor to services such as Xbox Live. | was Sonic Team's first online multiplayer game. Alien Front Online was the ... |
| Raid on Bungeling Bay | ... games was the way to go. Wright's first game was the helicopter action game | (1984) for the Commodore 64 |
| Dokapon | ... chanics that inspired monster-collecting RPGs such as Pokémon, Digimon, and | , and in turn the modern trend of collecting achievements. Dragon Quest V ... |
| Breath of Fire III | In the Capcom RPG | , the heroes battle a pair of anthropomorphic horses, whose names are Bali ... |
| Ultima Online | The term MMORPG was coined by Richard Garriott, the creator of | , in 1997. Previous to this and related coinages, these games were general ... |
| Dragon Quest | ... video game titled Final Fantasy, inspired by Enix's success with the genre, | (later released in North America as Dragon Warrior). With 400,000 copies s ... |
| Grand Theft Auto III | ... Kingsway Tunnel is used as the basis of a tunnel entrance in the video game | — during the 1990s, several members of the game's development team had wor ... |
| XPilot | ... the CS department at Aarhus University, three CS students, avid players of | and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, ... |
| Ōkami | ... th four other characters - K.K. Slider from Animal Crossing, Amaterasu from | , and Sam from Sam & Max. Brian Crecente of Kotaku listed him as his third ... |
| Splatterhouse | ... ft such as , Shadowman, Alone in the Dark, Chzo Mythos, , , , Dead Space, " | " "", "", and the Penumbra series. Blizzard's World of Warcraft has severa ... |
| Driver 2 | ... drive around a computer-generated version of the Meigs field, as well as in | , released in 2000 by Reflections. The airport was also featured in the 20 ... |
| 3D Pinball for Windows | ... ome non-simulation titles, such as 1991's RoboSport and the well-known 1995 | , which has been included as one of the standard system games in many Wind ... |
| Chrono Trigger | Square has also made other widely known games such as | , Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Mu ... |
| Final Fantasy | ... is Nobuo Uematsu. Even Uematsu's earlier compositions for the game series, | , on Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System in America) are being arranged ... |
| Alpine Racer 2 | ... pants. Similar results were found in another study utilizing the video game | . Participants reported dreaming about |
| SimCity | | was Maxis' first release and innovated the conception of gaming as there w ... |
| Discworld MUD | The Wombles are popular in the MUD world, particularly on | |
| Atlantica Online | ... ay model is particularly common in Korean MMORPGs such as MapleStory, , and | . Also, there are some free-to-play games, such as RuneScape & Tibia, wher ... |
| Super Paper Mario | ... mentioned very briefly in Mario Superstar Baseballin a Shy Guy's bio and in | a "Cyborg Wart" appears in a character's comic book |
| Strike Witch | In 2007, O'Hare became the inspiration for | Katherine O'Hare |
| Valhalla Knights | ... titles Valhalla (1983), (1995), Valkyrie Profile (2000), Max Payne (2001), | (2006), Final Fantasy XI (2002), Halo 3 (2007), and Final Fantasy XIII-2 ( ... |
| Play65 | ... 11, the WBA has announced collaborating with the online backgammon provider | for the 2011 season of the European Backgammon Tour. The season has eight ... |
| Mario Superstar Baseball | ... el's last level, Mario must fight him. He is also mentioned very briefly in | in a Shy Guy's bio and in Super Paper Mario a "Cyborg Wart" appears in a c ... |
| Rush Rush Rally Racing | ... n CD-ROM instead of GD-ROM and without official Sega license), most notably | and Last Hope |
| achievements | ... s Pokémon, Digimon, and Dokapon, and in turn the modern trend of collecting | . Dragon Quest V also introduced the concept of a playable pregnancy. The ... |
| EarthBound 64 | A sequel to EarthBound for the Nintendo 64DD, titled | , was in development for many years before finally being canceled. This pr ... |
| Demon Attack | ... Q* Bert and Super Cobra, while Imagic released versions of their hit games | and Atlantis. Finally, in 1983 the two Imagic games were brought to the US |
| MUD1 | ... n to have roots in the earliest multi-user games such as Mazewar (1974) and | (1978). 1985 saw the release of a roguelike (pseudo-graphical) MUD called ... |
| Ceremony of Innocence | In 1997, he provided voice talent for the video game | . In 1998, he was the head of the jury at the 48th Berlin International Fi ... |
| Animal Crossing | ... for first in the reader poll with four other characters - K.K. Slider from | , Amaterasu from Ōkami, and Sam from Sam & Max. Brian Crecente of Kotaku l ... |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator X | ... iday Harbor is featured as the default starting point in the computer game, | |
| Dead Space | ... ily by Lovecraft such as , Shadowman, Alone in the Dark, Chzo Mythos, , , , | , "Splatterhouse" "", "", and the Penumbra series. Blizzard's World of War ... |
| Civilization II | ... Sid Meier's Civilization series. The game's default settings are closest to | , in both gameplay and graphics (including the units and the isometric gri ... |
| The Legend of Zelda | ... soft in April 1998. Its gameplay is roughly similar to that of the original | game, but with the addition of role-playing video game statistical element ... |
| Last Hope | Independent commercial games such as Feet of Fury, | and DUX have also been released. On June 10, 2010, at E3 Sega announced th ... |
| Thexder | ... re entered the Nintendo Famicom market in December 1985 with the porting of | . In September 1986, Square spun off from Den-Yu-Sha and became an indepen ... |
| ChuChu Rocket! | ... , and mouse support. Dreamarena came with games such as Sonic Adventure and | |
| Chase H.Q. | ... . Examples are the title screens or other non-playable scenes of games like | , Meltdown, and RoboCop |
| video game | The film was also adapted into a | |
| Mass Effect | ... all Street (1987), The Departed (2006), his role as The Illusive Man in the | trilogy and President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Win ... |
| Penumbra | ... in the Dark, Chzo Mythos, , , , Dead Space, "Splatterhouse" "", "", and the | series. Blizzard's World of Warcraft has several references to Lovecraft, ... |
| Taito Legends | ... Invaders, Space Invaders Part II and Return of the Invaders are included in | , a compilation of Taito's classic arcade games released in 2005 on the Pl ... |
| Ripper | ... sadistic gangster. That year, he played a prominent role in the video game | , portraying Detective Vince Magnotta. Ripper made extensive use of real-t ... |
| Fable III | ... was to be purchased by Microsoft. Their most recent game to be released is | which was released on the 26 October 2010 |
| FreeCell | A version of | was created by Microsoft for release with the Windows operating system |
| The House of the Dead 2 | ... ul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, Power Stone, Hydro Thunder, Marvel vs. Capcom, | , and NFL 2K helped Dreamcast succeed in the first year. Sega Sports title ... |
| The Sims Online | ... other games. He designed a massively multiplayer version of the game called | , which was not as popular as the original. By November 2006, The Sims fra ... |
| Quake III Arena | There are six games that can still be played online. | and Maximum Pool are still accessible via various servers. 4x4 Evolution a ... |
| FlatOut | ... DMark), Remedy (Death Rally, Max Payne, Alan Wake), Bugbear Entertainment ( | , Glimmerati, Rally Trophy), Bitboys (a graphics hardware company) and Rec ... |
| NFL 2K | ... Power Stone, Hydro Thunder, Marvel vs. Capcom, The House of the Dead 2, and | helped Dreamcast succeed in the first year. Sega Sports titles helped fill ... |
| Civ II | ... e in Civ I), which many players found rather crude; isometric mode (like in | ) and optionally hexagonal tiling (like in Civ V) were added later. In bot ... |
| Yoshi's Cookie | He helped design the puzzles in the Super NES versions of | and designed the game Pandora's Box, which incorporates more traditional j ... |
| MapleStory | ... s. This free-to-play model is particularly common in Korean MMORPGs such as | , , and Atlantica Online. Also, there are some free-to-play games, such as ... |
| Silent Hunter | However, the reception was not enthusiastic among the fans of | . Silent Hunter II was criticised for a crude AI, the lack of a replayable ... |
| computer game | ... le had already sold over 100,000 Apple IIs. Its popularity bootstrapped the | and educational software markets and began the boom in the word processor ... |
| Brütal Legend | ... released in 1989. The song "Cremation" appears in the 2009 video game game | |
| Myst | ... ry 2000 and it became Wright's biggest success yet. It eventually surpassed | as the best-selling computer game of all time and spawned numerous expansi ... |
| Black & White 2 | ... satellite developer Big Blue Box. In 2005, Lionhead released The Movies and | . On 6 April 2006, it was announced that Lionhead Studios was to be purcha ... |
| 4x4 Evolution | ... Quake III Arena and Maximum Pool are still accessible via various servers. | and Starlancer are still online through Gamespy. Sega Swirl can be also be ... |
| Breath of Fire | ... e to video games and set the genre standards. Several games such as Mother, | and Lufia and the Fortress of Doom were inspired by various Dragon Quest t ... |
| Taito Legends 2 | ... pace Invaders '91, Space Invaders DX and Space Invaders 95 were included in | , a sequel compilation released in 2006 |
| Starlancer | ... nd Maximum Pool are still accessible via various servers. 4x4 Evolution and | are still online through Gamespy. Sega Swirl can be also be played online ... |
| Quake | ... f these bosses in Warcraft are labeled "Old Gods". The first-person shooter | also references Lovecraft - even having a boss called the Shub-Niggurath. ... |
| The Death Trap | ... writers working together on common projects. Square's first two titles were | and its sequel , both designed by part-time employee Hironobu Sakaguchi an ... |
| The Movies | ... ar Fable, from satellite developer Big Blue Box. In 2005, Lionhead released | and Black & White 2. On 6 April 2006, it was announced that Lionhead Studi ... |
| Civ V | ... e; isometric mode (like in Civ II) and optionally hexagonal tiling (like in | ) were added later. In both modes, look can be further customized by switc ... |
| Final Fantasy | ... Japan by Square (now Square Enix) in 1987. It is the first game in Square's | series. Originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Final F ... |
| Mother | ... xperience to video games and set the genre standards. Several games such as | , Breath of Fire and Lufia and the Fortress of Doom were inspired by vario ... |
| Power Stone | Launch titles such as Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, | , Hydro Thunder, Marvel vs. Capcom, The House of the Dead 2, and NFL 2K he ... |
| World of Warcraft | ... 2008, Western consumer spending on subscription MMOGs grew to $1.4 billion. | , a popular MMORPG, has more than 10 million subscribers as of February 20 ... |
| SimEarth | ... he game's theme of computer simulation with numerous other titles including | and SimAnt |
| Dragon Quest Wars | ... nto English. There is also a downloadable DSiWare turn-based strategy game, | and other titles have been released in Japan for cellphones |
| Dragon Quest | ... , one of the most important games in the history of the video game music is | . Koichi Sugiyama, a composer who was known for his music for various anim ... |
| Welltris | Pajitnov also created the lesser known sequel to Tetris, entitled | , which has the same principle but in a three dimensional environment wher ... |
| Sudeki | ... : Defender of the Future (2000) (2003),Cold Winter (2005), , , (2007) and " | " (2004 |
| Sega Swirl | ... ous servers. 4x4 Evolution and Starlancer are still online through Gamespy. | can be also be played online with its play by e-mail game. Phantasy Star O ... |
| The Sims | EA published | in February 2000 and it became Wright's biggest success yet. It eventually ... |
| Final Fantasy | ... ited as the first console RPG, although many Western critics often consider | "more important". GameSpot called the original Dragon Quest one of the fif ... |
| Wild Arms 3 | ... on-Square titles, including Capcom's Breath of Fire for the SNES and Sony's | for the PlayStation 2. It developed the game Secret of Evermore for the SN ... |
| The Sims 2 | ... ng Sony's Crash Bandicoot series, the Jak and Daxter series, and EA Games's | . This work is often performed with Mutato Muzika, the music production co ... |
| Raid on Bungeling Bay | The first computer game Wright designed was | in 1984, but it was SimCity that brought him to prominence. The game was r ... |
| Phantasy Star Online | ... pay-to-play MMORPG, alongside earlier such titles like Final Fantasy XI and | , though an additional market exists for free-to-play MMORPGs, which are s ... |
| Diablo III | In the yet-to-be released | , a travelling scholar named "Abd al-Hazir" functions as the fictional nar ... |
| Guitar Hero World Tour | ... edish Grammy Awards. "VinterNoll2" is an unlockable track in Career Mode on | . Kent recently got their own Singstar called SingStar Kent released on Pl ... |
| Phantasy Star Online | ... espy. Sega Swirl can be also be played online with its play by e-mail game. | has private servers |
| Cold Winter | ... as also featured in Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (2000) (2003), | (2005), , , (2007) and "Sudeki" (2004 |
| Mother 3 | ... e Mother series), appears in Brawl as well. In addition to Ness, Lucas from | is a playable character in Brawl, Pokey/Porky appeared as a boss, and trop ... |
| Unreal Tournament | ... in a review of the 3dfx Voodoo 5, where it outperformed every other card in | (same engine as Unreal), due to its native Glide support. Even video cards ... |
| Hydro Thunder | Launch titles such as Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, Power Stone, | , Marvel vs. Capcom, The House of the Dead 2, and NFL 2K helped Dreamcast ... |
| The Sims 2 | ... nic Arts and Maxis on the front and back of box covers. With the release of | in 2004, Maxis' logo was only displayed at the back of the box as well as ... |
| SimCity | ... computer game Wright designed was Raid on Bungeling Bay in 1984, but it was | that brought him to prominence. The game was released by Maxis, a company ... |
| Xevious | ... uce increased dramatically. The first game to take credit for its music was | , also noteworthy for its deeply (at that time) constructed stories. Thoug ... |
| Destiny of the Doctors | Baker also returned to star as the Fourth Doctor in the video game | in 1997. His voice has also featured in Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the ... |
| World of Warcraft | ... ality gameplay. The current market for MMORPGs has Blizzard Entertainment's | dominating as the largest pay-to-play MMORPG, alongside earlier such title ... |
| Every Extend Extra Extreme | ... included on the Qubed compilation for Xbox 360 along with Lumines Live! and | |
| Descent | ... ey first loaded, by smoothly fading out the text screen to black. (The game | , from 1995, is an example. |
| Star Trek Online | ... everal licenses from television have been optioned for MMORPGs, for example | and Stargate Worlds (which was canceled) |
| Progress Quest | ... ly referred to as the level treadmill, or 'grinding'. The role-playing game | was created as a parody of this trend. Eve Online (which broke almost ever ... |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 | ... The Boy Who Destroyed The World from the All Hallows EP was featured in the | video game. All Hallow's also featured a cover of the Misfits song "Hallow ... |
| non-linear | ... ly non-linear way, they usually allow players to explore an open world in a | manner following an early linear section of the game. Early character leve ... |
| Secret Weapons Over Normandy | ... The Heroes of Telemark, and also in a level of the PlayStation 2/Xbox game, | . |
| The Sims | ... the game on its own time; following this, Wright's efforts were thrown into | , at the time seen as a major gamble for the company, as the dollhouse gam ... |
| Final Fantasy II | ... was remade for several video game consoles and is frequently packaged with | in video game collections. The story follows four youths called the Light ... |
| Stargate Worlds | ... television have been optioned for MMORPGs, for example Star Trek Online and | (which was canceled) |
| Sudeki | ... also voiced both the narrator and the god "Tetsu" in the role-playing game | , but was uncredited |
| Mother 3 | ... arenas in the Melee, while only Onett appears in Brawl. New Pork City, from | (the sequel to Earthbound and the third game in the Mother series), appear ... |
| Descent 3 | ... stances would appear to mix together when overlapping. This was overcome in | with the use of opaque wall brushes and lighting closely matching that fou ... |
| Phantasy Star Online | The first console-based MMORPG was | for the Sega Dreamcast. The first console-based open-world MMORPG was Fina ... |
| SimAnt | ... me of computer simulation with numerous other titles including SimEarth and | |
| Kingdom Hearts II | ... Station and for the PlayStation 2. Stitch is also a summonable character in | , and appears along with his homeworld in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep fo ... |
| Paperboy | ... lectron from arcade machines (including Crystal Castles, Tempest, Commando, | and Yie Ar Kung-Fu) or other home computer systems (including Impossible M ... |
| Civilization II | ... Christopher Marlowe. Even today, Dido appears in Sid Meier's strategy games | and Civilization V, as the female leader of the Carthaginian tribe |
| Cannon Spike | ... , with BigBen Interactive publishing the last batch of PAL titles such as , | , , Razor Freestyle Scooter and Conflict Zone During the following years, ... |
| Eve Online | ... The role-playing game Progress Quest was created as a parody of this trend. | (which broke almost every MMORPG tradition) trains skills in real time rat ... |
| The Sims | Wright's greatest success to date came as the original designer for | games series. The game spawned multiple sequels and expansions and Wright ... |
| Eight Off | One of the oldest ancestors of FreeCell is | . In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, Martin Gardner describe ... |
| Star Trek Online | ... appear as villains in the video games and . They also make an appearance in | , in which they are referred to as the Undine |
| Pac-Man | ... n-operated attraction of all time." Game Informer considered it, along with | , one of the most popular arcade games that tapped into popular culture an ... |
| Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep | ... ble character in Kingdom Hearts II, and appears along with his homeworld in | for the PlayStation Portable |
| Tetris | ... ter engineer, residing in the United States, who developed the popular game | while working for the Computing Center of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, ... |
| Super Smash Bros. Brawl | IGN editor Lucas M. Thomas thought Wart deserved a spot as a character in | , despite admitting he was least likely to be included amongst the other c ... |
| Black and White 2 | Several products such as | and Fable had features changed or lacking in the final product |
| Civilization V | ... Even today, Dido appears in Sid Meier's strategy games Civilization II and | , as the female leader of the Carthaginian tribe |
| Final Fantasy XI | ... ating as the largest pay-to-play MMORPG, alongside earlier such titles like | and Phantasy Star Online, though an additional market exists for free-to-p ... |
| Descent 3 | ... ered several expansion packs. It spawned two direct sequels: Descent II and | |
| Crystal Castles | ... games officially converted to the Electron from arcade machines (including | , Tempest, Commando, Paperboy and Yie Ar Kung-Fu) or other home computer s ... |
| Cold Winter | ... g (also known as Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition), Hostile Waters (2001), | (2005), Medievil: Resurrection (2005), (2003), and (2000). He provided the ... |
| ABC Wide World of Sports Boxing | ... sed on Don King, including personality and his speech patterns. In the game | the top manager is reminiscent of King. Also, Don King helped create a vid ... |
| The Sims 2 | ... n interview with a Maxis employee on a bonus disc released with advertising | and also in early packaging of SimCity 2000 Special Edition |
| Final Fantasy II | ... c composition. The soundtrack album was released together with the score of | in 1989. Some of the game's tracks became mainstays to the Final Fantasy s ... |
| Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles | ... ho develop for GameCube. Game Designers Studio only released a single game, | . Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles was de facto developed by Square Enix's ... |
| Final Fantasy XI | ... nline for the Sega Dreamcast. The first console-based open-world MMORPG was | for the Sony PlayStation 2 |
| Half-Life | ... g the following years, unreleased games like Propeller Arena, Hellgate, and | were leaked to the Internet in essentially completed, playable forms |
| Super Smash Bros. Brawl | ... s is playable from the start. Ness is once again an unlockable character in | , and can be unlocked in several different ways. Onett and Fourside appear ... |
| SimCopter | ... different genres. However, their new games, including The Crystal Skull and | , were commercial failures. They also acquired Cinematronics to create a g ... |
| EverQuest | ... y be required to be purchased to allow access to certain areas of the game. | and Guild Wars are two examples of games that use such a format. Players g ... |
| Last Hope | ... and without official Sega license), most notably Rush Rush Rally Racing and | |
| Perfect Dark | ... Resurrection (2005), (2003), and (2000). He provided the voiceover for the | (2000) TV commercials. He also voiced both the narrator and the god "Tetsu ... |
| Pac-Man | On May 21, 2010, the 30th anniversary of | , the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button was replaced with a button reading the wo ... |
| Fable 2 | ... lnerable to a takeover bid. They have since finished the highly anticipated | and an unknown game, for which only subtle hints have been dropped, which ... |
| Destroyer Command | ... her U-boats, but also against destroyers that were controlled by players of | , a title also released by Ubisoft |
| Descent II | ... meplay and garnered several expansion packs. It spawned two direct sequels: | and Descent 3 |
| Super Smash Bros. Melee | ... r fewer, not using any continues, and finally defeating Ness in a match. In | , Ness is playable from the start. Ness is once again an unlockable charac ... |
| simulate | ... " stating that, in contrast to earlier arcade games which "were attempts to | already-existing things," Space Invaders was "the first video game as a vi ... |
| Dark Age of Camelot | ... ominently featured in modern fiction, although the online role-playing game | features enemies in the form of Askefruer/Askafroa |
| Final Fantasy II | ... everal times for different platforms, and has frequently been packaged with | in various collections. While all of these remakes retain the same basic s ... |
| EverQuest Online Adventures | ... le-based open-world MMORPG was Final Fantasy XI for the Sony PlayStation 2. | , also on the PlayStation 2, was the first console MMORPG in North America |
| Silent Hunter | ... ginally being developed by Aeon Electronic Entertainment, the developers of | , but they had to leave the project unfinished, and Ultimation Inc. finish ... |
| B&W2 | ... e Black & White series). Lionhead proper was working on three games: Fable, | and The Movies; in addition, the studio may potentially have been working ... |
| Sword of Mana | ... enture was the first Final Fantasy game to be released in Europe. A remake, | , was released in 2003 |
| Second Life | ... designed as an alternative to physical schools. In 2005, the virtual world | started to be used for foreign language tuition, sometimes with entire bus ... |
| SimHealth | ... of these attempts include SimAnt, SimFarm, SimEarth, SimLife, SimTower, and | . Maxis was also approached by companies to design business aids; SimRefin ... |
| Sid Meier's Colonization | ... -years-old to 43-years-old throughout the series. In the 1994 computer game | , finding a Fountain of Youth in a Lost City rumor would bring several peo ... |
| Donkey Kong 64 | ... e.g. a Wii in Pokémon Black and White versions. The Nintendo 64 video game | also had this system, at one part of the game when playing as Donkey Kong, ... |
| Voxel | ... ew. When the CT slice thickness is also factored in, the unit is known as a | , which is a three-dimensional unit. The phenomenon that one part of the d ... |
| Jade Empire | In the Xbox video game | , a character named Qui The Promoter is based on Don King, including perso ... |
| Panzer Dragoon | ... mbers of the disbanded Team Andromeda, the Sega development team behind the | series. It was conceptualized and produced by Tetsuya Mizuguchi. His compa ... |
| Holy Diver | ... (Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System) in 1989 was titled | . The gothic and medieval theme of the game is very similar to Dio's music ... |
| RoboSport | Maxis also released some non-simulation titles, such as 1991's | and the well-known 1995 3D Pinball for Windows, which has been included as ... |
| EverQuest | ... larizing the genre, though more mainstream attention was garnered by 1999's | in the West and 1996's in Asia |
| Kingdom of Loathing | In the game | the player must go through a series of sub-quests to obtain the "Holy MacG ... |
| The Matrix Online | ... e, based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Other licensed MMORPGs include | , based on the Matrix trilogy of films, , based on Games Workshop's table ... |
| Quake | ... gh the Dust Puppy is very innocent and unworldly, he plays a superb game of | |
| computer game | ... as arose when drawing bitmaps, such as when drawing the next frame during a | or demo. An image that moves smoothly across the screen might give rise to ... |
| Unreal Tournament | ... andon and Michiel van den Bos were also responsible for the soundtracks for | and Deus Ex, which also use the Unreal Engine; Michiel van den Bos also pr ... |
| Dragon Warrior | ... ising it for setting up the basics of console role-playing games along with | , and citing examples such as epic stories, leveling up, random battles, a ... |
| SimRefinery | ... d SimHealth. Maxis was also approached by companies to design business aids | ;is one example. The success of these franchises varies, but none matched ... |
| Final Fantasy Tactics | ... re, where they worked on several titles for the Sony PlayStation, including | and Vagrant Story. In June 2002, Quest was purchased by Square |
| Fable | ... the release of an expansion pack named . Lionhead then released the popular | , from satellite developer Big Blue Box. In 2005, Lionhead released The Mo ... |
| Neverwinter Nights | ... sfilm's graphical MUD Habitat. The first fully graphical multi-user RPG was | , which was delivered through America Online in 1991 and was personally ch ... |
| Vagrant Story | ... everal titles for the Sony PlayStation, including Final Fantasy Tactics and | . In June 2002, Quest was purchased by Square |
| Grand Theft Auto III | ... ve contained drum and bass tracks. The MSX/ radio station by DJ Timecode in | and , played drum and bass exclusively |
| Star Wars Galaxies | ... on the Matrix trilogy of films, , based on Games Workshop's table top game, | , Star Wars The Old Republic, Champions Online and Age of Conan |
| The Realm Online | ... innovative both in its scope and in offering first-person 3D graphics, with | appearing nearly simultaneously. Ultima Online, released in 1997, is often ... |
| Platoon | ... -1 is seen in many films about the Vietnam War, including The Green Berets, | , Hamburger Hill, Apocalypse Now, Casualties of War, and Born on the Fourt ... |
| Spore | ... Game Developers Conference on March 11, 2005, he announced his latest game | . He used the current work on this game to demonstrate methods that can be ... |
| Quake | ... nt renders enemies in full 3D using polygon meshes, a technique employed by | three years later. (However, Descent does use sprites for power-ups and th ... |
| SimLife | ... ther Sim- titles. Some of these attempts include SimAnt, SimFarm, SimEarth, | , SimTower, and SimHealth. Maxis was also approached by companies to desig ... |
| Breath of Fire | ... esponsible for localizing a number of non-Square titles, including Capcom's | for the SNES and Sony's Wild Arms 3 for the PlayStation 2. It developed th ... |
| Ataxx | ... for storing records of board games. Games currently supported are Amazons, | , Backgammon, Byte, Chase, Chess, DVONN, Exxit, Focus, Gess, GIPF, Go, Gob ... |
| Star Trek Online | ... re rendered by animation from Foundation Imaging, Inc. The multiplayer game | gives their proper name as Undine |
| Ultima Online | ... -person 3D graphics, with The Realm Online appearing nearly simultaneously. | , released in 1997, is often credited with first popularizing the genre, t ... |
| Chzo Mythos | ... are influenced heavily by Lovecraft such as , Shadowman, Alone in the Dark, | , , , , Dead Space, "Splatterhouse" "", "", and the Penumbra series. Blizz ... |
| Champions Online | ... Workshop's table top game, Star Wars Galaxies, Star Wars The Old Republic, | and Age of Conan |
| Airport Tycoon | ... simulation games put the player in charge of an airport. These include the | series |
| 1984 computer game | ... and 1992, a sixth novel penned by Eoin Colfer in 2009, a 1981 TV series, a | , and three series of three-part comic book adaptations of the first three ... |
| Shenmue | In the | series of games there are several instances of games within the main game. ... |
| Black & White | ... per Bullfrog, which was also founded by Molyneux. Lionhead's first game was | , a god game with elements of artificial life, strategy, and beat 'em up g ... |
| Quake 4 | ... air in the computer game Icewind Dale 2, and the voice of Johann Strauss in | . In February 2006, he starred as Wolfgang in Volkswagen's VDub series of ... |
| SimTower | ... titles. Some of these attempts include SimAnt, SimFarm, SimEarth, SimLife, | , and SimHealth. Maxis was also approached by companies to design business ... |
| World of Warcraft | ... en involve instance dungeons. Examples of games which feature instances are | , Everquest2, Aion, Guild Wars, RuneScape', "Star Trek Online", and DC Uni ... |
| Itadaki Street | ... to have none of its titles released outside Japan. The Mystery Dungeon and | series use characters and other elements from Dragon Quest games, and the ... |
| Spore Creature Creator | ... l is for them to eventually gain the intelligence to create spaceships. The | allows users to create species for later use in the game. This is one of f ... |
| Unreal Tournament | ... llowed the Unreal Singleplayer game content to be run as a modification for | . The online retailer at one point sold a box set including the Linux vers ... |
| SimAnt | ... ries, Maxis tried various other Sim- titles. Some of these attempts include | , SimFarm, SimEarth, SimLife, SimTower, and SimHealth. Maxis was also appr ... |
| Barker Bill's Trick Shooting | ... to shoot the dog. The nameless dog makes a cameo appearance in the NES game | (another Zapper game) and he can be shot |
| Defender | ... velopment of arcade games, such as Atari's Asteroids, Williams Electronics' | , and Namco's Galaxian and Galaga, which were modeled after Space Invaders ... |
| Galaga | ... Atari's Asteroids, Williams Electronics' Defender, and Namco's Galaxian and | , which were modeled after Space Invaderss gameplay and design. This influ ... |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 | ... blications. Steve was also a character in four of the Tony Hawk games, from | to Tony Hawk's Underground |
| Mr. T | Wright will appear as a character in the video game | , where he will team up with Mr. T to fight Nazis |
| Tech Romancer | ... cularly popular in Japan, with releases of network compatible games such as | and Project Justice. Web browsers were developed by independent companies ... |
| Super Mario Bros. | ... ame would later be a pack-in game, being a dual game pak with this game and | , and later a triple game with the same two games plus |
| Final Fantasy VII | In | there are several video-games that can be played in an arcade in the Gold ... |
| Meridian 59 | ... uly "massively"-scoped titles. Finally, MMORPGs as defined today began with | in 1996, innovative both in its scope and in offering first-person 3D grap ... |
| Tony Hawk's Underground | ... character in four of the Tony Hawk games, from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 to | |
| SimEarth | ... various other Sim- titles. Some of these attempts include SimAnt, SimFarm, | , SimLife, SimTower, and SimHealth. Maxis was also approached by companies ... |
| Laser Clay Shooting System | ... ion. Prior to the NES version, Nintendo also made a Duck Hunt game based on | released in 1976. The game would later be a pack-in game, being a dual gam ... |
| Lethal Xcess | ... and often contained sampled speech examples of which are Wings of Death and | |
| RuneScape | ... hich feature instances are World of Warcraft, Everquest2, Aion, Guild Wars, | ', "Star Trek Online", and DC Universe Online |
| Sonic Adventure | Launch titles such as Soul Calibur, | , Power Stone, Hydro Thunder, Marvel vs. Capcom, The House of the Dead 2, ... |
| World of Warcraft | ... , , Dead Space, "Splatterhouse" "", "", and the Penumbra series. Blizzard's | has several references to Lovecraft, such as the boss C'thun, the boss Yog ... |
| Project Justice | ... Japan, with releases of network compatible games such as Tech Romancer and | . Web browsers were developed by independent companies such as Planetweb t ... |
| Tibia | ... antica Online. Also, there are some free-to-play games, such as RuneScape & | , where the game is free, but one would have to pay monthly to play the ga ... |
| SimFarm | ... xis tried various other Sim- titles. Some of these attempts include SimAnt, | , SimEarth, SimLife, SimTower, and SimHealth. Maxis was also approached by ... |
| Destiny of the Doctors | ... r for the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time and audio for the PC game | . In 1996 he appraised his time on the show as the highlight of his life, ... |
| Sword of Mana | ... le screen. The game later received a remake for the Game Boy Advance called | in 2003. Finally, revealed during Square Enix's E3 2006 press conference, ... |
| Doom | ... l version released three months later, just over a year after id Software's | (December 1993). Like most games of its era, Descent uses a software rende ... |
| Star Trek Online | ... nstances are World of Warcraft, Everquest2, Aion, Guild Wars, RuneScape', " | ", and DC Universe Online |
| Age of Wonders | ... use the Unreal Engine; Michiel van den Bos also produced the soundtrack for | |
| computer game | ... sfer. A typical use for a blitter is the movement of a large bitmap in a 2D | or demo |
| Final Fantasy VII | ... anese role-playing video games, and would remain this way until titles like | took the genre into the mainstream. Years later, many American critics hav ... |
| Marathon Infinity | ... Marathon, has an AI who tries to escape the end of the universe. The end of | takes place at the universe's final moments |
| Fallout | The | series of video games feature a beverage called Nuka-Cola, which is based ... |
| RuneScape | On June 2, 2009, the MMORPG | released a quest titled "The Hunt For Red Raktuber", which is loosely base ... |
| Final Fantasy | ... st franchise. The fourth game in the series, , included characters from the | franchise, and later versions would include characters from Mario. |
| Final Fantasy | ... cated to Ueno, Tokyo in 1987 and developed a role-playing video game titled | , inspired by Enix's success with the genre, Dragon Quest (later released ... |
| The Simpsons Game | ... ghnuts (1963) and . In video games, the doughnut has appeared in games like | and Donut Dilemma. In the cartoon Mucha Lucha, there are four things that ... |
| The Ruins of Cawdor | ... Network: The Shadow of Yserbius in 1992, The Fates of Twinion in 1993, and | in 1995. Another milestone came in 1995 as NSFNET restrictions were lifted ... |
| Europa Universalis III | In the strategy game | , the player can select 'Ecumenism' as a National Idea. This increases tol ... |
| Power Pad | ... f a NES. A Power Set was also available, which included the Action Set, the | and a 3-in-1 cartridge that included Duck Hunt, World Class Track Meet and ... |
| Fallout 3 | ... at their essence, references to his work are common in other games such as | , , and Blood |
| Super Mario Bros. | ... Set configuration of the NES in the late 1980s, Duck Hunt was included with | . This particular cartridge is found very often in the United States, due ... |
| DC Universe Online | ... Warcraft, Everquest2, Aion, Guild Wars, RuneScape', "Star Trek Online", and | |
| Itadaki Street | When Enix took over the Monopoly video game clone | , the Dragon Quest franchise became an integral part of the game in its se ... |
| Galaxian | ... mes, such as Atari's Asteroids, Williams Electronics' Defender, and Namco's | and Galaga, which were modeled after Space Invaderss gameplay and design. ... |
| Dragon Quest | ... l Fantasys storyline had a deeper and more engaging story than the original | (known as Dragon Warrior in North America). Many modern critics have point ... |
| Sonic Adventure | ... ava, uploads, movies, and mouse support. Dreamarena came with games such as | and ChuChu Rocket! |
| Mother 3 | ... quel was announced in 1996 for the Nintendo 64DD, entitled EarthBound 64 or | . However, the game became plagued by problems as release date pushbacks o ... |
| Hexic | ... MSN Mind Aerobics and MSN Games groups. Pajitnov's new, enhanced version of | , Hexic HD, was included with every new Xbox 360 Premium package. He left ... |
| Driving Emotion Type-S | Escape, Inc. was established in 1998. They developed the racing game | |
| Guild Wars | ... s of games which feature instances are World of Warcraft, Everquest2, Aion, | , RuneScape', "Star Trek Online", and DC Universe Online |
| Stuntman | In the best-selling PlayStation 2 game | the first 'film' the player takes part in is entitled 'Toothless in Wappin ... |
| Fable III | ... ngsley has worked voicing a character named Sabine in Lionhead Studios game | , and starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island, directed by M ... |
| SimCity 2000 | ... s has spawned multiple sequels and spinoffs. Following the broad success of | , Maxis moved from Orinda, California to Walnut Creek in 1994 |
| SimEarth | ... ed around them or books that describe them (SimAnt: E.O. Wilson’s The Ants, | : James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory, SimCity: Jay Forrester’s Urban Dynamics an ... |