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 |
Risk | ... s has been done on contemporary board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and | . Much research has been carried out on chess, in part because many tourna ... |
Match Game | ... s from Tomlin, a new cast was brought in. This final season featured future | panelist Patti Deutsch, folksy singer-comedian Jud Strunk, and ventriloqui ... |
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 ... |
Fable III | ... nd The Movies; in addition, the studio may potentially have been working on | and The Dimitri Project |
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 ... |
Canada Summer Games | ... mes in 1975, and again in 1987, as well as being the host city for the 2005 | |
1996 Summer Olympics | ... mnast to earn an Olympic gold medal. The Group competition was added to the | in Atlanta. The Spanish group won the first gold medal of the new competit ... |
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, ... |
2004 Summer Olympics | ... ic stadium also hosted the Games in 1906 and was used to host events at the | |
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 ... |
Jeopardy! | ... en Globe-nominated Aaron Eckhart '94, animator and filmmaker Don Bluth '54, | all-time champion Ken Jennings '00, and Richard Dutcher, the "Father of Mo ... |
1972 Summer Olympics | At the | , Stecher repeated that performance. She won the 100 m in time of 11.07, w ... |
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 |
Sith engine | ... ting language Lua. It was first used for Grim Fandango. Partly based on the | , GrimE was the successor to SCUMM, preserving some of that engine's featu ... |
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 |
Lines of Action | ... IPF, Go, Gobblet, Gomoku+Renju, Hex, Hive, Hnefatafl, Jungle, Kropki, Kuba, | , Neutron, Nine Men's Morris, Octi, Philosopher's Football, Plateau, PÜNCT ... |
Ouija board | ... r any form of 'just knowing.'" Reliance on revelation is like reliance on a | ; it bypasses the need to show how it connects its results to reality. Fai ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Asian Games | Incheon has also won the bid to host the | in 2014 |
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 ... |
1936 Summer Olympics | Born in Delft, Osendarp won two bronze medals at the | in the 100 and 200 m sprint events. The games were held in Nazi Germany an ... |
1998 Winter Olympics | ... hewan, of Scottish ancestry, Le May Doan won the Olympic 500 m title at the | in Nagano, Japan and she repeated this feat at the 2002 Winter Olympics in ... |
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 ... |
first Olympiad in 1896 | ... 's competition has been a part of the modern Summer Olympic Games since the | . Images of discus throwers figured prominently in advertising for early m ... |
Monopoly | ... chess, go, mancala), less has been done on contemporary board games such as | , Scrabble, and Risk. Much research has been carried out on chess, in part ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Nine Men's Morris | ... enju, Hex, Hive, Hnefatafl, Jungle, Kropki, Kuba, Lines of Action, Neutron, | , Octi, Philosopher's Football, Plateau, PÜNCT, Quadrature, Reversi (Othel ... |
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 ... |
Pro Bowl | He returned to the NFL in 1998 with the Buffalo Bills, where he earned | and NFL Comeback Player of the Year honors. He played for the San Diego Ch ... |
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 ... |
Battlestar Galactica Collectable Card Game | Wiz Kids, Inc. (a collectible game manufacturer) produced the | based on the 2003 mini-series and 2004 TV show. The premier set of this ga ... |
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 ... |
1976 Summer Olympics | At the | , Stecher again competed in the three sprint events, winning medals in all ... |
2004 Games | ... 8 sports and 302 events (a total of one event more than the schedule of the | ). China became the 22nd nation to host the Olympic Games and the 18th to ... |
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 ... |
Whose Line Is It Anyway? | ... the attention of the producers of the British improvisational comedy show, | . Stiles was a regular on the show until 1998, and the show's short produc ... |
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 ... |
2002 Winter Olympics | ... the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and she repeated this feat at the | in Salt Lake City, Utah, giving rise to the title "the fastest woman on ic ... |
Island Games | ... and the Pan American Sports Organisation, and also compete in the biannual | |
All-Stars | ... rasquel and Cuban-born (and black) Minnie Miñoso, became the first Hispanic | |
1998 Games | During the | in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, three cities initially expressed interest in ho ... |
Southeast Asian Games | ... Asian Games and the 1934 Far Eastern Games. Whenever the country hosts the | , most of the events are held at the complex, but on the 2005 Games, most ... |
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) |
Ludus duodecim scriptorum | ... e ancient Romans played a number of games remarkably similar to backgammon. | ("Game of twelve lines") used a board with three rows of 12 points each, a ... |
Xbox Live Arcade | ... 2010, at E3 Sega announced that Dreamcast titles would soon be available on | and PlayStation Network. The first two titles to be released are Sonic Adv ... |
Dragon Quest | ... hii and Ken Narita. Following the successful North American localization of | , Nintendo of America translated Final Fantasy into English and published ... |
1934 Far Eastern Games | ... had hosted several multi-sport events, such as the 1954 Asian Games and the | . Whenever the country hosts the Southeast Asian Games, most of the events ... |
1972 | ... ducated at the University of Ghent. Rogge competed in yachting in the 1968, | and 1976 Summer Olympics, and played on the Belgian national rugby union t ... |
Sun Electronics | ... ure speech synthesis was the 1980 shoot 'em up arcade game, Stratovox, from | . , GamesRadar Another early example was the arcade version of Bezerk, rel ... |
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 ... |
Zooloretto | ... the 2007 award were released on 20 May 2007. The five games nominated were: | was announced as winner on 25 June 2007 |
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) |
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 ... |
PÜNCT | ... Action, Neutron, Nine Men's Morris, Octi, Philosopher's Football, Plateau, | , Quadrature, Reversi (Othello), Sahara, Shogi, TAMSK, Tantrix, Trax, Trip ... |
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 ... |
Tabula | ... to the roll of dice. Little specific text about the gameplay has survived. | , meaning "table" or "board", was a game mentioned in an epigram of Byzant ... |
Final Fantasy | ... ng an order on another upcoming Square role-playing game in a similar vein: | |
The Movies | ... as finally released in 2001. A similar problem occurred with the release of | which was intended for a 2004 release date but was eventually delayed to 2 ... |
Keltis | ... the 2008 award were released on 25 May 2008. The five games nominated were: | was announced as winner on 30 June 2008 |
Commonwealth Games | The 1938 British Empire Games was the third British Empire Games, the | being the modern-day equivalent. Held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australi ... |
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 ... |
Pro Bowl | ... s best assets—the players. As a result, Bell mandated an all-star game, the | , be played at the end of each season. But in the early 1950s, play someti ... |
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 ... |
Jeopardy! | ... zine. In 2011. Jaffee reflected, "The thing that I got a kick out of was... | showed a Fold-in and the contestants all came up with the word they were l ... |
Melbourne's 1956 Olympic Games | ... sing ceremonies was the Melbourne Cricket Ground which was also used during | . The mascot for the games was Karak, a Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (a threa ... |
Royal Game of Ur | ... excavated, along with illustrations, from ancient Egyptian royal tombs. The | , played in ancient Mesopotamia, may also be an ancestor of modern-day tab ... |
Microsoft Flight Simulator | ... ll known as the default takeoff field in many early versions of the popular | software program. It is an airport that is featured in Microsoft's Midtown ... |
Jeopardy! | ... ce 1985, WABC has been the New York area home of the long running game show | , having acquired rights to it partway through its first season from rival ... |
1994 Winter Olympics | ... o go before she started fighting for Olympic Gold and World Records. In the | , she fell on the 500 m and placed 17th on the 1,500 m as her best result. ... |
2000 Summer Olympics | After the | in Sydney, the International Table Tennis Federation instituted several ru ... |
The Last Ninja | ... g Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Tetris, | , Barbarian and SimCity) |
Reversi | ... ine Men's Morris, Octi, Philosopher's Football, Plateau, PÜNCT, Quadrature, | (Othello), Sahara, Shogi, TAMSK, Tantrix, Trax, Tripples, Tumbling Down, T ... |
HeroClix | On February 28, 2008, a DC Comics | set entitled "Crisis" was released |
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 ... |
Pokémon Ranger | ... n Pokémon Pinball, Pokémon Trozei!, the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon titles, the | titles, Pokémon Rumble, and . Blastoise also appears in Super Smash Bros. ... |
Wings of Death | ... g real instruments and often contained sampled speech examples of which are | and Lethal Xcess |
Tipperary | ... hurling champions, however, they lost the delayed Munster hurling final to | |
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 ... |
Duke Nukem Forever | Many Slashdotters have long talked about the supposed release of | , which was promised in 1997 but was delayed indefinitely (the game was ev ... |
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 ... |
Tom Clancy's EndWar | Rovaniemi appears in the video game | as a possible battlefield. In the game, Rovaniemi houses military faciliti ... |
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 ... |
Dungeons & Dragons | ... sition by TSR, Inc.. TSR continued publishing the line as an alternative to | (D&D) until 1987. On July 23, 2002, Square Enix registered the Dragon Ques ... |
1936 Summer Olympics | ... artoons about the Austrian Civil War, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the | , the Spanish Civil War, and other events of the interwar period. He also ... |
SimTower | ... so released games developed by other production houses, such as A-Train and | |
Ancient Olympic Games | ... ces are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the | featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of ... |
Call of Cthulhu | Similarly, an article (written from an in-universe perspective) in the | tabletop role-playing game speculates that it may be a corruption of Abd A ... |
Gaelic Athletic Association | He continued to be honoured by, among others, the | and various other organisations. In 1999 the Jack Lynch Tunnel under the r ... |
arcades | ... ths following its release in Japan, the game became very popular. Specialty | opened with nothing but Space Invaders cabinets, and by the end of 1978, T ... |
Descent 4 | Around that time, Volition also began work on | , but development was canceled in 2000, owing mostly to disappointing sale ... |
1976 Summer Olympics | ... Mark Spitz set seven World Records and win a record seven gold medals. The | were held in Montreal, Canada. Brazil won the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexic ... |
Risk | ... their token, as in Monopoly, to how their forces fare in battle, such as in | , or which resources a player gains, such as in The Settlers of Catan. Oth ... |
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 ... |
Space Raiders | ... ollector's items, though some are considered rarer. In 2002, Taito released | , a third-person shooter reminiscent of Space Invaders |
Ancient Olympic Games | ... s of increasing stature, and many preferred to go barefoot. Athletes in the | participated barefoot – and naked. Even the Gods and heroes were primarily ... |
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 ... |
Rock Band 3 | The song Rainbow in the Dark appears in " | . |
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 ... |
ZÈRTZ | ... (for example, in chess only player 1 can move the white pieces). Games like | and Chameleon are also not impartial, since although they are played with ... |
Gess | ... ed are Amazons, Ataxx, Backgammon, Byte, Chase, Chess, DVONN, Exxit, Focus, | , GIPF, Go, Gobblet, Gomoku+Renju, Hex, Hive, Hnefatafl, Jungle, Kropki, K ... |
SCUMM | ... Grim Fandango. Partly based on the Sith engine, GrimE was the successor to | , preserving some of that engine's features. Like SCUMM it is based on cha ... |
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. ... |
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 |
Lucky Dime Caper | ... bosses in most of the DuckTales video games and in the 2000 video game . In | , she appears as the main antagonist |
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 ... |
2006 Winter Olympics | ... on a bronze medal in boxing. Bermuda also competed in Men's Skeleton at the | in Turin, Italy. Patrick Singleton placed 19th, with a final time of 1:59. ... |
2018 Winter Olympics | ... Universiade host. The city was exploring possible future bids, such as the | , but did not actually submit a bid |
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 ... |
2002 Commonwealth Games | ... ents were not without precedent: 27 athletes similarly disappeared from the | in Manchester, England (21 from Sierra Leone, 5 from Bangladesh and one fr ... |
SimEarth | Following the success of SimCity, Wright designed | (1990) and SimAnt (1991). He co-designed SimCity 2000 (1993) with Fred Has ... |
Risk | ... , is convincing people to trade with you rather than with other players. In | , two or more players may team up against others. Easy diplomacy involves ... |
Pan American Games | ... ympic sport played during the Summer Olympics. It is also played during the | , All-Africa Games, and Asian Games.. It is also played on Mediterranean g ... |
Mass Effect 2 | ... , he played the role of the Illusive Man in the highly acclaimed video game | , and the sequel, Mass Effect 3 |
2000 Summer Olympics | The sport of triathlon was added as an Olympic sport at the | in Sydney as a shorter distance race ( swim, cycle, run) |
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 |
Exidy | ... the early home computer systems, released in 1978 by the videogame company, | . It was comparatively advanced when released, especially when compared to ... |
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, ... |
olympic | Handball is an | sport played during the Summer Olympics. It is also played during the Pan ... |
1932 Winter Olympics | ... therlands, and Yugoslavia all returned to the Games after having missed the | |
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 ... |
Gomoku | ... ckgammon, Byte, Chase, Chess, DVONN, Exxit, Focus, Gess, GIPF, Go, Gobblet, | +Renju, Hex, Hive, Hnefatafl, Jungle, Kropki, Kuba, Lines of Action, Neutr ... |
Keystone Kapers | In 1983, a video game called | was released for the Atari 2600, 5200, and later Colecovision. Playing as ... |
2002 Winter Olympics | ... major force in the economy. In 1995, Salt Lake City won the bid to host the | . The 2002 Olympics boosted tourism and the economy, and helped to dramati ... |
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 ... |
Reversi | The board game | is also referred to as Othello |
1998 Winter Olympics | Wickenheiser was a member of Team Canada at the | , when women's hockey was introduced as a medal event. She also played 21 ... |
Battlefield 3 | The first-person shooter video game, | features skid loaders in the maps Wake Island on all consoles and Gulf of ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dungeons & Dragons | ... t game released was Quest for the Rings!, with gameplay somewhat similar to | , and a storyline reminiscent of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Match Game | ... game shows: Battlestars, Body Language, Super Password, the ABC version of | , the syndicated version of Hollywood Squares, Win, Lose or Draw and Nicke ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Renju | ... , Byte, Chase, Chess, DVONN, Exxit, Focus, Gess, GIPF, Go, Gobblet, Gomoku+ | , Hex, Hive, Hnefatafl, Jungle, Kropki, Kuba, Lines of Action, Neutron, Ni ... |
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 ... |
Buck Rogers | ... recognizes that it needs good publicity for funding, and with "no bucks, no | ". Cooper's wife, Trudy (Pamela Reed), and other wives are afraid of becom ... |
1994 Winter Olympics | The 10 countries making their Summer Olympic debut (after competing at the | in Lillehammer) were: Armenia, Belarus, Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhsta ... |
1996 Atlanta Olympics | ... n was never ratified as a world record. Bailey repeated the "double" at the | , setting a world record of 9.84s +0.7 m/s wind in the 100 m (the previous ... |
Sorry! | ... urces a player gains, such as in The Settlers of Catan. Other games such as | use a deck of special cards that, when shuffled, create randomness. Scrabb ... |
Sega Bass Fishing | ... t two titles to be released are Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi, followed by | and Space Channel 5 Part 2 |
Pan American Games | ... f numerous important events within the sports community, including the 1979 | , 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games, 2006 and 2009 World Baseball ... |
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 ... |
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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 ... |
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 ... |
Space Invaders Extreme | ... gameplay and integrate new elements into the original design. For example, | , released on the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, integrated musical ... |
1987 Pan American Games | ... major revitalization of the central business district. The city hosted the | |
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 ... |
Namco Museum | The | soundtracks use the TR-808 extensively as the main rhythm generator. Other ... |
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 ... |
Xbox Live Arcade | ... company, Q Entertainment released a high definition version, Rez HD to the | in 2008 |
Velvet Assassin | The Video game | by Replay Studios is based off of Szabo's life as an allied spy during WWI ... |
Gaelic games | ... ames during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, on television advertisements for RTÉ's | coverage in Ireland, and on an advertisement for Oxfam. It was also used i ... |
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 ... |
Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game | In the | published by Chaosium, the King In Yellow is an avatar of Hastur who uses ... |
How Many Miles to Babylon? | ... uickly while it burns, which he explains by referencing the nursery rhyme " | " |
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 | |
Epic Games | ... l complete modification program called UnrealEd also came with the package. | has encouraged its community to contribute to creating modifications throu ... |
Vagrant Story | ... encer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Saga Frontier, Romancing Saga, | , Kingdom Hearts (done in collaboration with Disney Interactive), and (don ... |
2000 Summer Olympics | ... ayer. On June 24, 2000, she was named to the Canadian softball team for the | . This was the culmination of a long ball career. In 1994, she participate ... |
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 | |
Mythos | ... y of its campaign and adventure supplements. Two collectible card games are | and Call of Cthulhu, the Living Card Game. In the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card G ... |
YINSH | ... hara, Shogi, TAMSK, Tantrix, Trax, Tripples, Tumbling Down, TwixT, Xiangqi, | and ZÈRTZ |
Super Bowl XXXI | ... including the first two AFL-NFL Championship games (Super Bowls I and II), | and Super Bowl XLV. The state's support of the team is evidenced by the 81 ... |
Xenogears | Yasunori Mitsuda is a highly known composer of such games as | , Xenosaga Episode I, Chrono Cross, and Chrono Trigger |
Gaelic games | ... his career, Lynch had come to be regarded as one of the all-time greats of | . His contribution to the game of hurling was first recognised when he was ... |
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 |
Music City Miracle | ... ntual AFC Champion Tennessee Titans in a game that has become known for the | , where the Titans scored on the penultimate play of the game — a kickoff ... |
Bigpoint Games | ... is a 3D browser-based MMOG released as an open beta on February 8, 2011 by | |
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 |
2010 Winter Olympics | ... n contingent when Vancouver, British Columbia was chosen as the site of the | |
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", ... |
2014 Winter Olympics | ... ittee gathered in Guatemala City and voted Sochi to become the host for the | and Paralympics. In April 2010, it hosted the XIVth Pan-American Mountain ... |
1994 Winter Olympics | ... t at the World Championships, also placing second in the 15 km race. At the | in Lillehammer, Norway, she improved this performance, and won both indivi ... |
Shannon switching game | The | involves two players coloring the edges of an arbitrary graph, each attemp ... |
DragonQuest | ... merica to avoid trademark conflict with the pen-and-paper role-playing game | . Square Enix did not register the Dragon Quest trademark for use in the U ... |
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 |
What's My Line? | ... g him or her questions, in much the same manner as the American game shows, | and To Tell the Truth. Each round of the game started with news footage th ... |
Tetris | ... cused on dreaming. In one experiment, participants played the computer game | for three days and reported dreaming about falling geometric shapes. Even ... |
Amiga 1200 | ... and the AmigaOne-4000. It was to have connectors for an optionally attached | or an Amiga 4000 respectively, in order to use the old custom chips of an ... |
1988 Winter Olympics | ... c variations have also been performed: During the opening ceremonies of the | in Calgary, "O Canada" was sung in the southern Tutchone language by Yukon ... |
Pro Bowl | ... as the leading receiver on the team with 48 receptions for 870 yards, while | tight end Billy Joe Dupree recorded 28 receptions for 347 yards and provid ... |
Commonwealth Games | ... f what functions a Welsh capital should have". Although the city hosted the | in 1958, Cardiff only became a centre of national administration with the ... |
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 ... |
2014 | ... he largest multi-sport event ever held in India. Delhi lost bidding for the | Asian Games, and considered making a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics. How ... |
Xbox Live Arcade | Rez HD was announced for release on | by Microsoft during their pre-Tokyo Game Show press conference held in Sep ... |
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 |
Montreal Olympics | ... member of Puerto Rico's national basketball team. Morales didn't go to the | because, as a minor in 1976, he still couldn't join the national team, the ... |
Amiga games | ... ers many times faster than those UAE was initially expected to run on. Many | and applications can run smoothly on a Pentium II-era system. The realizat ... |
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 |
Los Angeles Olympic Games | ... ic committee decided to join the United States in the boycott, and the 1984 | because the national team didn't qualify for those. However, when he did g ... |
Olympic Games | ... is also documented in relation to religious or sports festivals such as the | . Since the 1950s, the tourism sector saw an uprecedented boost as arrival ... |
I | ... mpionships, including the first two AFL-NFL Championship games (Super Bowls | and II), Super Bowl XXXI and Super Bowl XLV. The state's support of the te ... |
Wheel of Fortune | ... l machines; four IGT games Austin Powers, Fortune Cookie, Leopard Spots and | and one game manufactured by WMS; Reel 'em In. Without revealing the propr ... |
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 ... |
1972 Summer Olympics | The | in Munich, Germany saw swimmer Mark Spitz set seven World Records and win ... |
Mafia Wars | ... Cheech & Chong's Animated Game. Gameplay derives from statistic games like | and asset management games like FarmVille |
1984 Summer Olympics | ... level in 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rhythmic gymnastics was added to the | in Los Angeles, with an Individual All-Around competition. However, many f ... |
Chrono Trigger | ... composer of such games as Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I, Chrono Cross, and | |
1998 Winter Olympics | ... gers signed Karen Koch.Women's ice hockey was added as a medal sport at the | in Nagano, Japan. The United States won gold, Canada won silver and Finlan ... |
2006 Winter Olympics | ... ided colour commentary for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the | for Speed Skating, and was present to see her former teammates Cindy Klass ... |
To Tell the Truth | ... ns, in much the same manner as the American game shows, What's My Line? and | . Each round of the game started with news footage that introduced the new ... |
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 ... |
1996 Summer Olympics | ... His frequent false starting eventually led to his disqualification from the | 100 m final in Atlanta, Georgia, USA due to a second false start by Christ ... |
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 ... |
Trivial Pursuit | ... rassed) Oh ... oh, sure." DeForest Kelley himself parodied the phrase for a | commercial ("How should I know? I'm an actor, not a doctor"). The phrase a ... |
1936 Winter Olympics | ... of 10 gold medals, 10 silver and 6 bronze. It was the first time since the | that Germany competed with a unified team after the reunification |
ZÈRTZ | ... i, TAMSK, Tantrix, Trax, Tripples, Tumbling Down, TwixT, Xiangqi, YINSH and | |
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 ... |
Call of Cthulhu | ... as a publisher of games based on Lovecraft's Mythos. The role-playing game | has been in print for 30 years (currently in its sixth major edition) and ... |
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 |
1980 Olympics | ... because, as a minor in 1976, he still couldn't join the national team, the | in Moscow, because Puerto Rico's Olympic committee decided to join the Uni ... |
2002 Winter Olympic Games | | Figure skating. All events were held at the Delta Center, although for pur ... |
2028 Summer Olympics | ... Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, he has expressed support to bid for the | |
Tamerlane chess | ... ce structure. There is also a larger 10x11 board derivate; the 14th century | , or shatranj kamil (perfect chess), with a slighly different piece struct ... |
Gaelic Athletic Association | ... named as the "Hurling Captain of the Forties". In the centenary year of the | in 1984 Lynch was named on the "Hurling Team of the Century". At the speci ... |
1956 Summer Olympics | ... It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the | in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events ... |
SimCity series | ... ically, one of the most popular and successful video games of all time. The | has spawned multiple sequels and spinoffs. Following the broad success of ... |
Zoo Tycoon 2 | ... s available in the Marine Mania expansion pack of Zoo Tycoon and its sequel | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Middle-earth Collectible Card Game | In the | produced by Iron Crown Enterprises, most of the Nazgûl have invented names ... |
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 ... |
Funcom | An NPC is named Ninus in the MMORPG from | , Age of Conan |
Games in Sydney in 2000 | ... ics ever" at each closing ceremony, a practice he resumed at the subsequent | |
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 ... |
2000 Olympic Games | ... c titles were Pérec's last international titles. She did not compete in the | in Sydney. She claimed to have been harassed by the Australian press since ... |
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 |
II | ... hips, including the first two AFL-NFL Championship games (Super Bowls I and | ), Super Bowl XXXI and Super Bowl XLV. The state's support of the team is ... |
Titus Software | The Dick Tracy video game was developed by | in 1990. It was ported to many platforms including Amiga, Commodore and MS ... |
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) ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Summer Olympic Games | ... as appointed by President McKinley as the USA's Commissioner at that year's | . In 1905, after Henry Chadwick wrote an article saying that baseball grew ... |
Commonwealth Games | ... tarting with the 2000 games in Sydney. In 2010, Taekwondo was accepted as a | sport |
first Summer Games in Greece in 1896 | ... nt, the fact that these Olympic Games would be the 100th Anniversary of the | |
Match Game | ... shows to actually win its timeslot, leading to the demise of NBC's original | and Art Linkletter's long-running House Party on CBS, both in 1969. Even t ... |
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 ... |
1960 Winter Olympics | ... the similar name, it is not the location of Squaw Valley Ski Resort or the | . Squaw Valley is located north-northeast of Orange Cove and east of Fresn ... |
TAMSK | ... r's Football, Plateau, PÜNCT, Quadrature, Reversi (Othello), Sahara, Shogi, | , Tantrix, Trax, Tripples, Tumbling Down, TwixT, Xiangqi, YINSH and ZÈRTZ |
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 ... |
Match Game | ... atings of both of CBS' popular afternoon game shows, The Price Is Right and | . NBC, pleased by the success that the expansion of Another World has brou ... |
Valhalla | Valhalla is referenced in the video game titles | (1983), (1995), Valkyrie Profile (2000), Max Payne (2001), Valhalla Knight ... |
Ancient Olympic Games | ... oxing (pygme, pyx), Wrestling (pale) and Pankration were represented in the | . The Romans produced gladiatorial combat as a public spectacle. During th ... |
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 ... |
Raid on Bungeling Bay | ... games was the way to go. Wright's first game was the helicopter action game | (1984) for the Commodore 64 |
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 ... |
Dokapon | ... chanics that inspired monster-collecting RPGs such as Pokémon, Digimon, and | , and in turn the modern trend of collecting achievements. Dragon Quest V ... |
1992 Winter Olympics | ... a biathlon World Cup event, and she formed part of the Canadian team at the | , in Albertville, France – the first time women competed in biathlon at th ... |
Breath of Fire III | In the Capcom RPG | , the heroes battle a pair of anthropomorphic horses, whose names are Bali ... |
Whose Line Is It Anyway? | In 1988, Cook appeared as a contestant on the improvisation comedy show, | . Cook was declared winner, his prize being to read the credits in the sty ... |
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 ... |
Commonwealth Games | The 2006 | were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March ... |
Gaelic Athletic Association | ... scheduled to play the Tipperary team later the same day in Croke Park, the | 's major football ground. Despite the general unease in Dublin as news bro ... |
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 ... |
Tantrix | ... tball, Plateau, PÜNCT, Quadrature, Reversi (Othello), Sahara, Shogi, TAMSK, | , Trax, Tripples, Tumbling Down, TwixT, Xiangqi, YINSH and ZÈRTZ |
Have I Got News for You | ... s, most notably as a team captain on the BBC current affairs satirical quiz | |
Festival of Empire | In 1911, the | was held at the building to mark the coronation of George V and Queen Mary |
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 ... |
1954 Asian Games | The Rizal complex had hosted several multi-sport events, such as the | and the 1934 Far Eastern Games. Whenever the country hosts the Southeast A ... |
Chrono Trigger | Square has also made other widely known games such as | , Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Mu ... |
Commonwealth Games | ... n international competition, including the Olympic Games since 1988 and the | since 2002. In 2005, the ITTF announced that doubles table tennis only was ... |
SimCity | | was Maxis' first release and innovated the conception of gaming as there w ... |
Alpine Racer 2 | ... pants. Similar results were found in another study utilizing the video game | . Participants reported dreaming about |
Discworld MUD | The Wombles are popular in the MUD world, particularly on | |
1938 British Empire Games | ... am met and married Margaret Elaine Dovey, who had swum for Australia in the | and was the daughter of barrister and future New South Wales Supreme Court ... |
TwixT | ... si (Othello), Sahara, Shogi, TAMSK, Tantrix, Trax, Tripples, Tumbling Down, | , Xiangqi, YINSH and ZÈRTZ |
Wheel of Fortune | ... heel of Fortune" reel machine (created on the basis of the famous TV show “ | ” created by Merv Griffin), the player must play 3 coins per spin to be el ... |
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 |
1964 Summer Olympics | ... t served as part of the athletics 50 km walk and marathon course during the | |
Match Game | ... ing role on the sitcom Hogan's Heroes, went on to success on the game shows | and Family Feud. Larry Hovis, also a regular on Hogan's Heroes, appeared o ... |
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 ... |
2002 games | ... 2006 Commonwealth Games. The only difference between the 2006 games and the | was the absence of Zimbabwe, which withdrew from the |
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 |
Jeopardy! | ... eton's captain, Steve Chernicoff, went on to become a five-time champion on | in its 1994-95 season and won over $83,000. He made it to the quarterfinal ... |
EarthBound 64 | A sequel to EarthBound for the Nintendo 64DD, titled | , was in development for many years before finally being canceled. This pr ... |
1984 Olympic Games | The Atlanta Olympics followed the financial model established by the | in Los Angeles. The cost to stage the Games was US$1.8 billion. Government ... |
Whose Line Is It Anyway? | ... 90s he became a semi-regular cameo turn on the Channel 4 improvisation show | and in 2005 he was a team captain on the BBC2 improvisational satire show ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
2004 Summer Olympics | ... She was a commentator for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the | in Athens and was a member of the official Canadian contingent when Vancou ... |
Xiangqi | ... ello), Sahara, Shogi, TAMSK, Tantrix, Trax, Tripples, Tumbling Down, TwixT, | , YINSH and ZÈRTZ |
Max Payne | ... in the video game titles Valhalla (1983), (1995), Valkyrie Profile (2000), | (2001), Valhalla Knights (2006), Final Fantasy XI (2002), Halo 3 (2007), a ... |
Microsoft Flight Simulator X | ... iday Harbor is featured as the default starting point in the computer game, | |
2013 East Asian Games | ... r of gold medals of any participating nation that year. China will host the | in Tianjin and the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in |
Vancouver 2010 | ... es in Nagano all top players from the NHL have been able to take part, with | being the first time held in an NHL market since the inclusion of NHL play ... |
Dead Space | ... ily by Lovecraft such as , Shadowman, Alone in the Dark, Chzo Mythos, , , , | , "Splatterhouse" "", "", and the Penumbra series. Blizzard's World of War ... |
Exzeal | Three other NAOMI games - | , Illmatic Envelope: Illvelo and Mamonoro, were supposed to be ported to t ... |
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 ... |
MMOs | These are schools operating online in | and virtual worlds. Unlike other language education on the Internet, virtu ... |
1990 Goodwill Games | ... ter, which features an Olympic size swimming pool and had been used for the | , and Celebration Park, with sports fields and wooded trails. The city has ... |
Pro Bowl | ... Football League's New York Jets as 17-point favorites, with NFL icons like | ers Bobby Boyd (db), Mike Curtis (lb), John Mackey (te), Tom Matte (rb), F ... |
Microsoft Flight Simulator | Meigs is the default airport for the | series until Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, though the airport remains o ... |
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games | ... given the honour of singing Waltzing Matilda in the closing ceremony of the | . Dusty's wife penned several of his most popular songs |
Pro Bowl | ... d as a starter that season was 8–3. Flutie was selected to play in the 1998 | |
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 ... |
The Settlers of Catan | ... ally features only in games for three or more people. An important facet of | , for example, is convincing people to trade with you rather than with oth ... |
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 ... |
1987 Pan American Games | ... r Bowl XLVI for which it did February 5, 2012. Indianapolis also hosted the | and the 2002 World Basketball Championships |
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 ... |
Pythian Games | ... d to be a sacred plant. In commemoration of this legend, the winners at the | received a wreath of laurel picked in the Temple |
Chase H.Q. | ... . Examples are the title screens or other non-playable scenes of games like | , Meltdown, and RoboCop |
ChuChu Rocket! | ... , and mouse support. Dreamarena came with games such as Sonic Adventure and | |
1956 Summer Olympics | ... rld aboard the newly commissioned HMY Britannia, during which he opened the | in Melbourne and visited the Antarctic. The Queen and the children remaine ... |
Match Game | ... uares, and Family Feud, were also popular daytime television. The height of | s popularity occurred between 1973 and 1977, before it was overtaken by Fa ... |
1998 Commonwealth Games | Shah Alam hosted 2 events for | , road cycling and boxing |
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 ... |
Penumbra | ... in the Dark, Chzo Mythos, , , , Dead Space, "Splatterhouse" "", "", and the | series. Blizzard's World of Warcraft has several references to Lovecraft, ... |
Nemean Games | ... he throne of Sicyon, and during his reign he is said to have instituted the | |
1936 Winter Olympics | Another son, Pierre, won the four-man bobsleigh gold medal at the | in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
Fable III | ... was to be purchased by Microsoft. Their most recent game to be released is | which was released on the 26 October 2010 |
2000 Summer Olympics | ... silver medal in the 100 m and a bronze in the 200 m were his results of the | , which was a personal victory, considering his comeback from a career-thr ... |
Pythian Games | Delphi became the site of a major temple to Phoebus Apollo, as well as the | and the famous prehistoric oracle. Even in Roman times, hundreds of votive ... |
2010 Winter Olympics | ... the phrases "with glowing hearts" and "des plus brillants exploits" for the | in Vancouver. Two provinces have adopted Latin translations of phrases fro ... |
FreeCell | A version of | was created by Microsoft for release with the Windows operating system |
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 ... |
Sydney Games | ... ed his former partner Marion Jones, winner of the women's 100 metres at the | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Match Game | Burghoff also frequently appeared on the game show | in the 1970s, both as a stand-in for regular Charles Nelson Reilly and als ... |
2002 Winter Olympics | ... ts soft, powdery texture, and led to Salt Lake City winning the bid for the | . In Salt Lake County there are four ski resorts; Snowbird and Alta in Lit ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
1998 Commonwealth Games | ... PAS. The biggest occasion held in this stadium was the boxing finals of the | which saw Malaysian's Sapok Biki won a gold medal |
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 ... |
2014 Asian Games | On April 19, 2007, Incheon was selected as the host city for the | , beating out New Delhi |
Acey-deucey | ... f the checkers movement change, rendering the game fundamentally different. | is a variant of backgammon in which players start with no checkers on the ... |
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 ... |
Pai Gow | Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, Tien Gow, | , Che Deng, Tiu U and Kap Tai Shap. In Cantonese they are called "Gwat Pai ... |
Brütal Legend | ... released in 1989. The song "Cremation" appears in the 2009 video game game | |
Gaelic Athletic Association | ... tasked with suppressing the Irish liberation movement. Some members of the | which owned Croke Park were confirmed Nationalists, but others were not |
GIPF | ... Amazons, Ataxx, Backgammon, Byte, Chase, Chess, DVONN, Exxit, Focus, Gess, | , Go, Gobblet, Gomoku+Renju, Hex, Hive, Hnefatafl, Jungle, Kropki, Kuba, L ... |
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 ... |
Winter Olympics | ... rated with choreographer Enzo Cosimi on a composition called "9.20" for the | opening ceremony. He said, "Enzo and I are very much interested in pushing ... |
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 ... |
Plakoto | Portes: This is similar to Western backgammon. | : A game where one checker can trap another checker on the same point |
What's My Line? | ... the 10:30 Eastern slot on Sundays, opposite CBS's long-running quiz program | hosted by John Charles Daly, who had been the first ever ABC news anchorma ... |
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 ... |
Aunt Sally | ... ummy, scarecrow, or effigy. The rhetorical technique is sometimes called an | in the UK, with reference to a traditional fairground game in which object ... |
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 ... |
X Games II | ... ghout the early 1990s. Wakeboarding was added as a competitive sport in the | . The World Skiboard Association "changed its focus" and was re- named the ... |
Commonwealth Games | ... 1987 and 2003 at Footes Lane. Guernsey participates in its own right in the | |
2004 Summer Olympics | ... e cities shortlisted by the IOC to launch official candidatures to host the | . Although the games ultimately went to Athens, Cape Town came in third pl ... |
Taito Legends 2 | ... pace Invaders '91, Space Invaders DX and Space Invaders 95 were included in | , a sequel compilation released in 2006 |
1972 Summer Olympics | ... untries. The sport re-emerged onto the world stage as team handball for the | in Munich. Women's team handball was added at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Du ... |
Commonwealth Games | ... an's Olympic medal tally stands at 10 of which 8 were earned in hockey. The | and Asian Games medal tallies stand at 65 and 160 respectively |
Match Game | Game shows such as | , The Hollywood Squares, and Family Feud, were also popular daytime televi ... |
Dungeons & Dragons | ... antasy themes, often occurring in an in-game universe comparable to that of | . Some employ hybrid themes that either merge or substitute fantasy elemen ... |
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. ... |
Bridge | ... ble, taking as few tricks as possible, or taking an exact number of tricks. | , Whist, Euchre, Spades, and the various Tarot card games are popular exam ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
AFC Championship Game | ... Wild Card playoff round; the Colts then defeated the Jets 30-17 in the 2009 | ; but the next year in the Wild Card round the Jets pulled off another pla ... |
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 ... |
Super Series '76 | ... season standings. On January 11 at the Spectrum, the Flyers, as part of the | , played a memorable exhibition game against the Soviet Union's dominant C ... |
1936 Summer Olympics | Men's field handball was played at the | in Berlin. During the next several decades, indoor handball flourished and ... |
SimEarth | ... he game's theme of computer simulation with numerous other titles including | and SimAnt |
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 ... |
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 |
1998 Winter Olympics | ... Her comeback was not very successful, being hampered by injuries. After the | , Bédard retired from biathlon. She later announced an attempt to make the ... |
Che Deng | ... e dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, Tien Gow, Pai Gow, | , Tiu U and Kap Tai Shap. In Cantonese they are called "Gwat Pai" (骨牌), wh ... |
Sudeki | ... : Defender of the Future (2000) (2003),Cold Winter (2005), , , (2007) and " | " (2004 |
The Museum of Curiosity | ... called Heretic, broadcast on BBC 2 in 1994. On May 18, 2009, he appeared on | on BBC Radio 4 |
Hex | ... , Chase, Chess, DVONN, Exxit, Focus, Gess, GIPF, Go, Gobblet, Gomoku+Renju, | , Hive, Hnefatafl, Jungle, Kropki, Kuba, Lines of Action, Neutron, Nine Me ... |
Welltris | Pajitnov also created the lesser known sequel to Tetris, entitled | , which has the same principle but in a three dimensional environment wher ... |
Munich Olympic Games | At the | , Black September kidnapped and killed eleven Israeli athletes. A number o ... |
The Sims | EA published | in February 2000 and it became Wright's biggest success yet. It eventually ... |
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 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 ... |
Asian Games | ... y stands at 10 of which 8 were earned in hockey. The Commonwealth Games and | medal tallies stand at 65 and 160 respectively |
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 ... |
Pro Bowl | ... s also had a trio of great linebackers: future Hall of Famer Ted Hendricks, | er Rod Martin (3 Interceptions) and standout rookie Matt Millen |
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 ... |
Whose Line Is It Anyway? | ... t The Kids. He has also appeared on the UK version of the television series | , which has a similar format. He was a co-writer of the BBC Radio 4 comedy ... |
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 ... |
Diablo III | In the yet-to-be released | , a travelling scholar named "Abd al-Hazir" functions as the fictional nar ... |
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 ... |
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 |
2010 Winter Olympics | Le May Doan was also a colour commentator for CTV at the | in Vancouver for the sport of Speed Skating |
Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game | In 2003, after the gaming license had reverted back to Marvel Comics, the | was published by Marvel Comics. This edition uses mechanics that are total ... |
2016 Summer Olympics | ... ugh of Ipanema. The area will be one of the four "Olympic Zones" during the | |
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 ... |
2000 Summer Olympics | ... t season 98, effectively ending his career. He made a second attempt in the | for Olympic glory, but suffered from pneumonia and dropped out during the ... |
2004 Summer Olympic Games | ... ed levels. The country adopted the euro in 2001 and successfully hosted the | in Athens |
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 ... |
Dungeons & Dragons | ... nd science curriculum, in 1983 and '86. Former students recall them playing | and working in the school's theater and TV program. Andy then attended Eme ... |
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 ... |
recreational wargame | ... ollowed by Little Wars (1913). Little Wars is recognised today as the first | and Wells is regarded by gamers and hobbyists as "the Father of Miniature ... |
2002 Winter Olympics | ... unty is famous for its ski resorts, which led to Salt Lake City hosting the | |
1924 Summer Olympics | ... Hiver ("International Winter Sports Week") and held in association with the | , the sports competitions held at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, Haut ... |
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 ... |
Four years later | ... g the semi-finals in the 100 m freestyle (58.8 s heats, 58.9 s semi final). | , in Melbourne, he also entered the semi-finals in the same category (58.5 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pogs | ... aterials which have a value, but aren't real money; for example, games like | or |
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 ... |
Hive | ... se, Chess, DVONN, Exxit, Focus, Gess, GIPF, Go, Gobblet, Gomoku+Renju, Hex, | , Hnefatafl, Jungle, Kropki, Kuba, Lines of Action, Neutron, Nine Men's Mo ... |
arcade | is an | video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. It was or ... |
Rummikub | ... s are also shedding-type games; some variants of Rummy such as Phase 10 and | , as well as the children's game Old Maid, fall into both categories |
Charlie's Angels | ... for most of the 1970s, though she made guest appearances on series such as | and The Love Boat |
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 ... |
Pythian Games | ... , starting in 776 BC athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the | , one of the four panhellenic (or stephanitic) games, precursors of the Mo ... |
1976 Summer Olympics | ... the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Women's team handball was added at the | . Due to its popularity in the region, the Eastern European countries that ... |
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. |
Big Ten Football Championship Game | ... ndianapolis will begin alternating again. Indianapolis also hosted the 2011 | . The national offices for the governing bodies of several sports are loca ... |
Star Trek Online | ... everal licenses from television have been optioned for MMORPGs, for example | and Stargate Worlds (which was canceled) |
1992 Winter Olympics | Koss made his Olympic debut at the | , finishing seventh on the 5,000 m, five days after undergoing surgery bec ... |
Fable | Several products such as Black and White 2 and | had features changed or lacking in the final product |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Secret Weapons Over Normandy | ... The Heroes of Telemark, and also in a level of the PlayStation 2/Xbox game, | . |
2000 Summer Olympics | ... h was successful in getting the International Olympic Committee to host the | in Sydney |
1936 Summer Olympics | She repeated that performance at the | , aged only 17, winning the 100 m freestyle, 400 m freestyle and the 4×100 ... |
2002 Winter Olympics | At the | in Salt Lake City, Rogge became the first ever IOC President to stay in th ... |
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 ... |
What's My Line? | Russell appeared as the Mystery Guest on | on January 4, 1953. During her appearance, like most other Mystery Guests, ... |
Go (game) | #Redirect | |
XBoard | It is often used in conjunction with a GUI program such as | . Initial versions of XBoard's Chess Engine Communication Protocol were ba ... |
Jeopardy! | ... eral occasions, including in a coffee brewing competition and in a round of | that he hacked in his own favor. Unlike Pitr, he has no ambitions for worl ... |
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 |
Dungeons & Dragons | ... tems for creating original superheroes, based on random ability rolls (a la | ). In addition, the Basic Set Campaign Book also allowed players to create ... |
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 ... |
SimAnt | ... me of computer simulation with numerous other titles including SimEarth and | |
Phantasy Star Online | The first console-based MMORPG was | for the Sega Dreamcast. The first console-based open-world MMORPG was Fina ... |
ME Games Ltd | ... ation of Science Fiction Artists Award for Best Cover Illustration in 2002. | (formerly Middle-earth Play-by-Mail), which has won several Origin Awards, ... |
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 ... |
Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game | ... published a different game using their SAGA System game engine, called the | . This version, written by Mike Selinker, was published in the late 1990s ... |
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 |
Olympiad | ... ement. His entry for the year of Abraham 1829, the second year of the 148th | (186/185 BC), of his Chronicon, reads "Titus Livius tragoediarum scriptor ... |
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 ... |
Cannon Spike | ... , with BigBen Interactive publishing the last batch of PAL titles such as , | , , Razor Freestyle Scooter and Conflict Zone During the following years, ... |
2000 Summer Olympics | ... sed enforcement of doping controls, and sympathy concerning its loss of the | to Sydney were all factors in the decision. Eight years earlier, Beijing l ... |
Gaelic Athletic Association | ... roke Park is the largest sports stadium in Ireland. The headquarters of the | , it has a capacity of 82,300. It is the third largest stadium in Europe a ... |
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 ... |
amusement arcade | ... d they can be found in mostly in pachinko parlors and the adult sections of | s, known as game centers |
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 |
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep | ... ble character in Kingdom Hearts II, and appears along with his homeworld in | for the PlayStation Portable |
2004 Summer Olympics | She helped lead Team USA to a gold medal at the | and was also chosen by her fellow U.S. Olympians to carry the American fla ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Blood | ... , references to his work are common in other games such as Fallout 3, , and | |
Descent 3 | ... ered several expansion packs. It spawned two direct sequels: Descent II and | |
Cold Winter | ... g (also known as Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition), Hostile Waters (2001), | (2005), Medievil: Resurrection (2005), (2003), and (2000). He provided the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
1994 Winter Olympics | ... ed fame outside the speed skating world by winning three gold medals at the | in his native Norway, winning all races in new world records, two of which ... |
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 ... |
1992 Albertville Olympics | ... medals from 1956 to 1988 as well as a final time as the Unified Team at the | . The United States won their first gold medal in 1960. On the way to winn ... |
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 |
GAA | The Rugby Union club Unidare RFC and the | club Erins Isle are based in the area. Soccer clubs include Tolka Rovers F ... |
Olympiad | ... olony of Teos, although some called him a Milesian. He was born in the 80th | (460–457 BC) according to Apollodorus of Athens, and although Thrasyllus p ... |
1996 Summer Olympics | Montgomery did not qualify for the | 100 meters, although he did compete in Atlanta in the heats of the 4 x 100 ... |
Half-Life | ... g the following years, unreleased games like Propeller Arena, Hellgate, and | were leaked to the Internet in essentially completed, playable forms |
Gaelic Athletic Association | ... Brotherhood and was associated with Michael Cusack in the early days of the | . He also joined the Celtic Literary Society through which he came to know ... |
Gaelic games | ... political career Lynch had a successful sporting career as a dual player of | . He played hurling with his local club Glen Rovers and with the Cork seni ... |
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 ... |
Commonwealth Games | In its own right Jersey participates in the | and in the biennial Island Games, which it last hosted in 1997 and will ne ... |
Pentomino | The puzzle game | s features in a prominent subplot of the novel |
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 ... |
Jeopardy! | ... to radio from 1979 to 1982, hosted by Art Fleming (the host of the original | ), with the 1978 and 1979 national tournament semi-finals and finals appea ... |
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 ... |
Last Hope | ... and without official Sega license), most notably Rush Rush Rally Racing and | |
Warhammer 40,000 | Various allusions and puns are made in reference to the Wombles in the | book series Ciaphas Cain by author Sandy Mitchell, being referenced in the ... |
Olympiad | ... superior to preceding and subsequent artists. He dated Apelles to the 112th | (332-329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of Alexander the ... |
The Grand Old Duke of York | There's even a nursery rhyme about war, | , ridiculing a general for his inability to command any further than march ... |
2004 Summer Olympics | ... he €10 Greek Handball commemorative coin, minted in 2003 to commemorate the | . On the coin, the modern athlete directs the ball in his hands towards hi ... |
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 ... |
2011 BCS National Championship Game | The BCS National Championship game also circulates to Glendale. The | was held in Glendale on January 10, 2011. The Auburn Tigers defeated the O ... |
Destroyer Command | ... her U-boats, but also against destroyers that were controlled by players of | , a title also released by Ubisoft |
Gaelic Athletic Association | The first nationally formalised rules were drawn up by the | (GAA) in Ireland in 1884. The game is still regulated by the GAA in the Re ... |
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 ... |
Dark Age of Camelot | ... ominently featured in modern fiction, although the online role-playing game | features enemies in the form of Askefruer/Askafroa |
All-Africa Games | ... uring the Summer Olympics. It is also played during the Pan American Games, | , and Asian Games.. It is also played on Mediterranean games |
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 |
browser-based | Battlestar Galactica Online is a 3D | MMOG released as an open beta on February 8, 2011 by Bigpoint Games |
Silent Hunter | ... ginally being developed by Aeon Electronic Entertainment, the developers of | , but they had to leave the project unfinished, and Ultimation Inc. finish ... |
Centennial Olympic Games | ... er in 1985, while she was a devoted supporter of the Athens bid to host the | . In 1983, during the first Greek presidency of the Council of the Europea ... |
1988 Winter Olympics | ... an in 1986 seemed almost sure to succeed after Canada had held a successful | in Calgary and Melbourne, Australia, who hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics a ... |
Charlie's Angels | ... d sexual gratification and bawdy humor and situations such as Wonder Woman, | , The Love Boat, and Three's Company—became popular |
Gaelic games | The | of Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and Gaelic handball are all organised ... |
1960 Winter Olympics | ... Hench's most recognizable works is his design for the Olympic Torch for the | at Squaw Valley, California, modeled after the torches of the 1948 and 195 ... |
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 ... |
1996 | ... ames, both gained by 20 km racewalker Jefferson Pérez, who took gold in the | games, and silver 12 years later. Pérez also set a world best in the 2003 ... |
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 ... |
Commonwealth Games | ... a would participate in the Games until 1994. South Africa withdrew from the | in 1961 |
Asian Games | ... the European Championships, Europe Top-12, the Asian Championships and the | . Chinese players have won the men's World Championships 60% of the time s ... |
Athens 1896 | ... in Athens. This was apparently a compromise: After the successful games of | , the Greeks suggested they could organize the games every four years. Sin ... |
panhellenic | ... rom all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four | (or stephanitic) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics. The victors at ... |
Cluedo | ... theme, as with checkers, to having a specific theme and narrative, as with | . Rules can range from the very simple, as in tic-tac-toe, to those descri ... |
NFL championship game | ... k Johnny Unitas defeated the New York Giants at Yankee Stadium 23-17 in the | . The game, the first-ever utilizing the overtime rule, is generally consi ... |
Epic MegaGames | Unreal is a first-person shooter video game developed by | and Digital Extremes and published by GT Interactive (now owned by Atari) ... |
Forsaken | Perhaps the most well-known "Descent clone" was | , which was released in 1998 for PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo 64. Forsake ... |
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, ... |
Mock the Week | ... evision programmes, particularly popular panel shows and quiz shows such as | , Have I Got News for You, and The Now Show. Similarly it is found on radi ... |
2004 Summer Olympics | ... the €10 Greek Discus commemorative coin, minted in 2003 to commemorate the | . On the obverse of the coin a modern athlete is seen in the foreground in ... |
2020 Summer Olympics | ... lost bidding for the 2014 Asian Games, and considered making a bid for the | . However, sports minister Manohar Singh Gill later stated that funding in ... |
The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game | In | , the Witch-king and Khamûl the Easterling retain the titles Tolkien gave ... |
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 ... |
Carrom Company | ... um chloride products), Great Lakes Castings Corporation, Amptech, Inc., and | . Ludington has had a construction boom in luxury condominiums since about ... |
2004 Summer Olympics | ... were heard by billions at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens | . In the same year, he took the Tui Award for Best Classical Recording at ... |
Never Mind the Buzzcocks | On 19 December 2011, the Wombles were featured on an episode of | |
Fable | ... n of the Black & White series). Lionhead proper was working on three games: | , B&W2 and The Movies; in addition, the studio may potentially have been w ... |
Have I Got News for You | ... mes, particularly popular panel shows and quiz shows such as Mock the Week, | , and The Now Show. Similarly it is found on radio quiz shows such as The ... |
now bears the game's name | ... n May 1998. It was powered by an original gameplay and computer engine that | , one that had been in development for over three years in founder Tim Swe ... |
Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game | ... ble card games are Mythos and Call of Cthulhu, the Living Card Game. In the | an archetype, the Arcana Force, are based on his works. Several computer h ... |
1976 Summer Olympics | ... t the University of Ghent. Rogge competed in yachting in the 1968, 1972 and | , and played on the Belgian national rugby union team. Rogge served as Pre ... |
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 ... |
Kingdom of Loathing | In the game | the player must go through a series of sub-quests to obtain the "Holy MacG ... |
EverQuest | ... larizing the genre, though more mainstream attention was garnered by 1999's | in the West and 1996's in Asia |
Wheel of Fortune | ... rom rival WNBC. Since 1990 Jeopardy! has been paired with its sister series | , which WABC acquired after WCBS dropped the series. WABC also airs Who Wa ... |
GURPS | ... rk on a new "third generation" role-playing system. The eventual result was | , which was strongly influenced by The Fantasy Trip |
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 ... |
Microsoft Flight Simulator | ... to mid- 80s. 1-2-3 was used to test general application compatibility, with | being used to test graphics compatibility. Because spreadsheets use large ... |
Dungeons & Dragons | ... in tic-tac-toe, to those describing a game universe in great detail, as in | (although most of the latter are role-playing games where the board is sec ... |
1996 Summer Olympics | ... to win a medal in that event, at 21 years of age. The following year at the | , he again placed third in the 100 m and 200 m events, both behind world r ... |
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 |
Rummikub | ... based on three-suited money playing card decks, similar to the way in which | tiles were derived recently from modern Western playing cards |
Xbox 360 Live Arcade | There is also a | title called Battlestar Galactica which is 2D in nature where you can co-o ... |
1917 Rose Bowl | ... 14. As the starting quarterback on the Penn Quakers, he led his team to the | . His college days were interrupted by a stint in the United States Army d ... |
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 ... |
Grand Theft Auto III | ... ve contained drum and bass tracks. The MSX/ radio station by DJ Timecode in | and , played drum and bass exclusively |
Vagrant Story | ... everal titles for the Sony PlayStation, including Final Fantasy Tactics and | . In June 2002, Quest was purchased by Square |
Mornington Crescent | ... s contributed to several books from the series including guides to the game | |
2004 Olympics | ... bration Tour to commemorate the U.S. women's national team's victory in the | . In 2007, her first year of eligibility, she was selected for induction i ... |
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 |
2004 Summer Olympics | Montgomery did not qualify for the | , finishing seventh in the final of the United States Olympic trials. Befo ... |
2000 Summer Olympics | ... istan), and over 80 athletes and officials overstayed their visas after the | in Sydney |
Dragon Quest Monsters | The franchise includes several spin-off games, including the | RPG. The series has also inspired arcade games such as the Japanese , wher ... |
DVONN | ... mes currently supported are Amazons, Ataxx, Backgammon, Byte, Chase, Chess, | , Exxit, Focus, Gess, GIPF, Go, Gobblet, Gomoku+Renju, Hex, Hive, Hnefataf ... |
Figure It Out | ... yndicated version of Hollywood Squares, Win, Lose or Draw and Nickelodeon's | |
Asian Games | ... 1982, Akali Dal announced the organisation of protests in Delhi during the | . The Congress leaders like Bhajan Lal ordered selective frisking of Sikh ... |
strategy | Halma (from the Greek word ἅλμα meaning "jump") is a | board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by an American thoracic surgeon at Har ... |
online play | ... was the first console to include a built-in modem and Internet support for | . To date, the console is still supported through various independent rele ... |
strategy | ... first game was Black & White, a god game with elements of artificial life, | , and beat 'em up games. Black & White was published by Electronic Arts in ... |
Masquerade Party | ... rd and The Hollywood Squares. He was also a panelist on the 1974 revival of | hosted by Richard Dawson. He had also appeared with Dawson on Cop-Out |
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 ... |
Match Game | ... and Hot Streak (1986). During the 1990–91 season, a short-lived revival of | became the last game show to be broadcast on ABC's daytime lineup. However ... |
1998 Commonwealth Games | ... eating the feat in Athens on 17 June. He picked up gold in the 100 m at the | held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, setting a record time of 9.88 s, beating N ... |
Gaelic Athletic Association | Dr Douglas Hyde Park, with a capacity of 30,000 is an important | (GAA) venue in Ireland and is home to the Roscommon county footballers and ... |
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 ... |
1956 Summer Olympics | ... ul 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and Melbourne, Australia, who hosted the | and felt that the Olympic Games should return to Australia. The Athens bid ... |
SimLife | ... ther Sim- titles. Some of these attempts include SimAnt, SimFarm, SimEarth, | , SimTower, and SimHealth. Maxis was also approached by companies to desig ... |
1924 Summer Olympics | For the | , the city played host to the riding portion of the modern pentathlon even ... |
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 ... |
GURPS | ... aynor and Lisa Evans in 1991, a supplement for playing the milieu using the | roleplaying game system. In the 1998 Wizards of the Coast game , there is ... |
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 ... |
2000 Summer Olympics | Montgomery did not qualify for the individual 100 m at the | in Sydney, though he again ran as an alternate in the heats of the relay e ... |
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 |
The News Quiz | ... or You, and The Now Show. Similarly it is found on radio quiz shows such as | |
Airport Tycoon | ... simulation games put the player in charge of an airport. These include the | series |
Whose Line Is It Anyway? | Simmons has been featured as himself on numerous TV shows, including | , CHiPs, Saturday Night Live, The Larry Sanders Show and on an episode of ... |
Shenmue | In the | series of games there are several instances of games within the main game. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
1904 | The 1906 games were quite successful. Unlike the 1900, | or 1908 games, they were neither stretched out over months nor overshadowe ... |
Rockstar Games | Video games such as | ' Grand Theft Auto series and Turn 10 Studios' Forza Motorsport series hav ... |
2002 Winter Olympics | ... ance at Olympic gold, and Wickenheiser was named to Canada's roster for the | held in Salt Lake City, Utah. On Team Canada's pre-Olympic tour, Wickenhei ... |
Monopoly | When Enix took over the | video game clone Itadaki Street, the Dragon Quest franchise became an inte ... |
SimTower | ... titles. Some of these attempts include SimAnt, SimFarm, SimEarth, SimLife, | , and SimHealth. Maxis was also approached by companies to design business ... |
MMOG | Battlestar Galactica Online is a 3D browser-based | released as an open beta on February 8, 2011 by Bigpoint Games |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics | ... tics of to the fore during their performance at the closing ceremony of the | . Then Prime Minister John Howard had triggered controversy that year with ... |
SimAnt | ... ries, Maxis tried various other Sim- titles. Some of these attempts include | , SimFarm, SimEarth, SimLife, SimTower, and SimHealth. Maxis was also appr ... |
Olympic Winter Games | Almaty was a bidder to host the XXII | in 2014, but was eliminated from consideration, not making the "short list ... |
Galaga | ... Atari's Asteroids, Williams Electronics' Defender, and Namco's Galaxian and | , which were modeled after Space Invaderss gameplay and design. This influ ... |
Defender | ... velopment of arcade games, such as Atari's Asteroids, Williams Electronics' | , and Namco's Galaxian and Galaga, which were modeled after Space Invaders ... |
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 |
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 |
All-star team | ... an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an | or even selected as a hypothetical team (such as a Dream Team or Team of t ... |
If I Ruled the World | He was a regular team captain on the political satire game show | . Brooke-Taylor appeared as a guest in one episode, and during the game "I ... |
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 ... |
Commonwealth Games | ... ball, netball, weightlifting, fishing and tennis. Nauru participates in the | and the Summer Olympic Games, where team members have been somewhat succes ... |
Mak-yek | ... g the Dark Ages, particularly in Northern Europe. Some native games such as | still retain this form of capture |
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 ... |
Black Sox Scandal | ... 920, but he quickly disbanded the team due to the negative publicity of the | . Bell became a backfield coach for Penn's coach John Heisman from 1920 to ... |
Tipperary | The Dublin Gaelic football team was scheduled to play the | team later the same day in Croke Park, the Gaelic Athletic Association's m ... |
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 ... |
Micronesian Games | The region is home to the | , a quadrennial international multi-sport event involving all Micronesia's ... |
Mystery Dungeon | ... only spin-off series to have none of its titles released outside Japan. The | and Itadaki Street series use characters and other elements from Dragon Qu ... |
Lethal Xcess | ... and often contained sampled speech examples of which are Wings of Death and | |
Epic MegaGames | ... video game for Windows 3.x. It was developed by SaadaSoft and published by | in 1989 |
RuneScape | ... hich feature instances are World of Warcraft, Everquest2, Aion, Guild Wars, | ', "Star Trek Online", and DC Universe Online |
Hanafuda | | (Japanese: 花札, lit. flower cards) were Japanese cards with flower designs. ... |
Neutron | ... Gomoku+Renju, Hex, Hive, Hnefatafl, Jungle, Kropki, Kuba, Lines of Action, | , Nine Men's Morris, Octi, Philosopher's Football, Plateau, PÜNCT, Quadrat ... |
1960 Summer Olympics | The Games were held in Rome, Italy from September 18 to 25, 1960, with the | . The only disability included in these Paralympics was spinal cord injury |
Olympic Games | ... henaic Stadium in Athens, a replica of an ancient Greek stadium, hosted the | in 1896. It had also hosted Olympic Games in 1870 and 1875 (see Evangelis ... |
Sonic Adventure | Launch titles such as Soul Calibur, | , Power Stone, Hydro Thunder, Marvel vs. Capcom, The House of the Dead 2, ... |
2005 Games | ... utheast Asian Games, most of the events are held at the complex, but on the | , most events were held elsewhere. The 1960 ABC Championship and the 1973 ... |
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 ... |
Asian Games | ... domestic and international sporting events, such as the First and the Ninth | . Delhi hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the largest multi-sport event ... |
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 ... |
Tafl games | Other games which use custodian capture: Hasami shogi, Ludus latrunculorum, | |
Pokémon Trading Card Game | ... 1950s and later. Even more closely, obake karuta resembles the Yu-Gi-Oh! or | , which also involves collecting cards that represent fabulous creatures. ... |
SimFarm | ... xis tried various other Sim- titles. Some of these attempts include SimAnt, | , SimEarth, SimLife, SimTower, and SimHealth. Maxis was also approached by ... |
1896 Summer Olympics | Fencing and Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the | |
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, ... |
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 ... |
strategy | Hex is a | board game played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and sever ... |
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, ... |
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 | |
Candy Land | ... on player skill. But many children's games are mainly decided by luck: e.g. | and Chutes and Ladders require no decisions by the players. A player may b ... |
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 ... |
Rummikub | ... The most notable examples of such tile sets are dominoes, mahjong tiles and | tiles. Chinese dominoes are also available as playing cards. It is not cle ... |
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 |
Summer Olympic Games | ... c of the Olympic Games. The men's competition has been a part of the modern | since the first Olympiad in 1896. Images of discus throwers figured promin ... |
Summer Olympic Games | ... asthma is common among top athletes. One survey of participants in the 1996 | , in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., showed that 15% had been diagnosed with asthm ... |
Fallout | The | series of video games feature a beverage called Nuka-Cola, which is based ... |
Athens Olympic Games | ... njury, and he was a shadow of his former self as a sprinter. In 2004 at the | , he failed to advance out of the first round of the 100 m heats but capta ... |
RuneScape | On June 2, 2009, the MMORPG | released a quest titled "The Hunt For Red Raktuber", which is loosely base ... |
Trax | ... ateau, PÜNCT, Quadrature, Reversi (Othello), Sahara, Shogi, TAMSK, Tantrix, | , Tripples, Tumbling Down, TwixT, Xiangqi, YINSH and ZÈRTZ |
2010 Commonwealth Games | ... rting events, such as the First and the Ninth Asian Games. Delhi hosted the | , the largest multi-sport event ever held in India. Delhi lost bidding for ... |
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 ... |
1960 Summer Olympics | ... e games and received a replacement gold medal for his boxing victory in the | . For the torch ceremony, more than 10,000 Olympic torches were manufactur ... |
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 |
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. ... |
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue | ... n is a permanent panellist on the long-running BBC Radio improvisation show | (ISIHAC) in a cast which includes Tim Brooke-Taylor. He also stars in and ... |
1964 Tokyo Olympics | ... eiji Shrine. The gymnasium and swimming pool were designed by Tange for the | , which were the first Olympics held in Asia. Tange began his designs in 1 ... |
Asian Games | ... l conferences, such as the Incheon Global Fair & Festival in 2009. The 17th | Incheon 2014 will also be held in Incheon from September 19, 2014. Incheon ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sonic Adventure | ... ava, uploads, movies, and mouse support. Dreamarena came with games such as | and ChuChu Rocket! |
Asian Games | ... rgest multi-sport event ever held in India. Delhi lost bidding for the 2014 | , and considered making a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics. However, sport ... |
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 ... |
Stuntman | In the best-selling PlayStation 2 game | the first 'film' the player takes part in is entitled 'Toothless in Wappin ... |
Guild Wars | ... s of games which feature instances are World of Warcraft, Everquest2, Aion, | , RuneScape', "Star Trek Online", and DC Universe Online |
Driving Emotion Type-S | Escape, Inc. was established in 1998. They developed the racing game | |
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 ... |
2006 Winter Olympics | ... named Tournament MVP and she was the top scorer on the Women's side. At the | , Canada was defending its gold medal status. When the final match was set ... |
1998 Winter Olympics | ... nts were trying to undermine Belarus at all levels, even sports, during the | in , Japan |
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 ... |