List of Amiga games - List of Amiga games This is a list of games for the Amiga computer system, organised alphabetically by name. See List of computer and video games for related lists. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Numbers 1869 (Computer game) -- 'NAM -- 1000 Miglia -- 1st Personal Pinball -- 3001 - O'Connors Fight -- 3D Soccer -- 4 Soccer Simulations -- 4D Sports Boxing -- 4D Sports Driving -- 4x4 Off Road Racing -- 5th Gear -- 7 Gates of Jambala -- 9 Lives A A Prehistoric Tale -- A.G.E -- A.P.B. - All Points Bulletin -- Aargh -- Abandoned Places 1 -- Abandoned Places 2.
List of Atari 2600 games - List of Atari 2600 games This is a list of games for the Atari 2600 computer system, organised alphabetically by name. See List of computer and video games for related lists. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Numbers 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (Atari) 32 in 1 (Atari) 9 to 5 (20th Century Fox) A Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Tower Of Mystery (M-Network) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure Of Tarmin (M-Network) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (M-Network) Adventure (Atari) Adventures Of Tron (M-Network) Air Raiders (M-Network) Air Raiders (USA) Air-Sea Battle (Atari) Alien (20th Century Fox) Alpha Beam With Ernie (Atari) Amidar (Parker Brothers) Armor Ambush (M-Network) Armor Ambush (USA).
List of computer and video games - List of computer and video games For computer games and video games listed in alphabetical order: list of computer and video games by name For games organized by category (genre): list of computer and video games by category list of computer puzzle games list of MMORPGs For games listed by platform: list of Amiga games list of Atari 2600 games list of Atari ST games list of Dreamcast games list of Game & Watch games list of Game Boy Advance games list of GameCube games list of IBM PC games list of Macintosh games list of NES games list of Nintendo 64 games list of PlayStation games list of PlayStation 2 games list of Sega Genesis games list of SNES games Other: list of free game.
List of major flops - List of major flops A flop or product failure is a product that doesn't reach expectations of success, failing to come even close. A major flop goes one step further and is recognized for its almost complete lack of success. However, most of the items listed below are ones that had high expectations, large amounts of money or widespread publicity, but fell far short of success. Obviously, due to the subjective nature of "success" and "meeting expectations", there can be disagreement about what constitutes a "major flop". Two examples: David McReynolds ran for President of the United States in 1980 and 2000 on the socialist ticket, but came nowhere near winning. However, he would never characterize his campaign as a flop because he ran for president.
List of game topics - List of game topics This page aims to list articles on Wikipedia that are related to games. This is so that those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on Related Changes in the sidebar and on the bottom of the page. This list is not necessarily complete or up to date - if you see an article that should be here but isn't (or one that shouldn't be here but is), please update the page accordingly. See Game basic topics for a pared-down list. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Abalone game - Acquire - Advanced Squad Leader -.
James Follett - first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, last broadcast on BBC 7 in August 2003. Earthsearch, a cult science fiction drama, broadcast on Radio 4 in 1981 and rerun on BBC 7 in 2003. Earthsearch 2, broadcast 1982, also repeated on BBC 7 in 2003. Ice, a 90-minute Radio 4 play based on the novel. at least two 15-minute plays for Radio 4's "Just Before Midnight" Television Two episodes for the cult Science Fiction TV series Blake's 7 - "Dawn of the Gods" and "Stardrive". Other Works Starglider, a short science fiction work used as the basis for the Atari/ST and Amiga computer games of the same name. Tracker, a short science fiction work used as the basis for the 1988 Amiga computer game of the same name. Also see.
Emulator - more slowly than it would have on the original hardware. Most emulators just emulate a hardware architecture—if a specific operating system is required for the desired software, it must be provided as well (and may itself be emulated). Both the OS and the software will then be interpreted by the emulator, rather than being run by native hardware. Apart from this interpreter for the emulated machine's language, some other hardware (such as input or output devices) must be provided in virtual form as well: if writing to a specific memory location should influence the screen, for example, this will have to be emulated as well. A popular use of emulators is to run software, often games, written for hardware that is no longer sold or readily available, such as the Commodore.
Tracker - length, parameters, effects and so forth are entered in hexadecimal. A complete song consists of several small multi-channel patterns chained together via a master list. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 List of trackers 3 See also 4 External Links History The term tracker derives from Soundtracker, the first of its type, which was released in 1987 for the Commodore Amiga, although the general concept of step-sequencing samples numerically can be traced back to the Fairlight CMI sampling workstation of the late 1970s, and it is interesting to compare the work of The Art of Noise or the Pet Shop Boys with early tracker music. A tracker song, when saved to disk, typically incorporates all the sequencing data plus samples, and thus during the format's heyday it became almost a.
Windows 3.x - widely successful version of Windows (see history of Microsoft Windows), enabling Microsoft to compete with Apple Computer's Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga on the GUI front. Windows 3.0 was released on May 22, 1990 and included a significantly revamped user interface as well as technical improvements to make use of the memory management capabilities of Intel's 80286 and 80386 processors. Text-mode programs written for MS-DOS could be run within a window, making the system usable as a crude multitasking base for legacy programs, though this was of limited use for the home market, where most games and entertainment programs continued to require raw DOS access. The MS-DOS Executive file manager/program launcher was replaced with an icon-based Program Manager and a list-based File Manager called Winfile, thereby simplifying the launching of applications..
History of board games - History of board games The history of board games is a complicated one, as many games date from early times when literacy was a scarce skill. This has meant that for many games we have three dates, the oldest known board, the earliest mention in literature and the earliest written rule set. For some games like the Royal Game of Ur we only have one of those three. A number of important historical sites, artifacts and documents exist which shed light on early board games. The most of important of these include, The Alfonso X manuscript Also known as the Libro de los juegos it is a text commissioned by Alfonso translating a large number of arabic documents on games into Spanish. Many of these original arabic documents.
Gay Games - Gay Games The Gay Games are a sporting and cultural event hosted by the gay and lesbian community. They were started in San Francisco in 1982, the brainchild of Dr. Tom Waddell, whose goals were to promote the spirit of inclusion and participation, and the pursuit of personal best into a sporting event: The purpose of the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) is to foster and augment the self-respect of lesbians and gay men throughout the world and to engender respect and understanding from the nongay world, primarily through an organized international participatory athletic and cultural event held every four years, and commonly known as the Gay Games. The Gay Games were formerly known as the Gay Olympics, but a lawsuit by the International Olympic Committee forced.
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator - Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator UADE (Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator) is a portable open source or free software program for playing Amiga music on UNIX platforms. UADE supports most of the Amiga sound formats using The UAE Amiga Emulator source code for Amiga emulation. The number of supported music formats was approximately 150 in November 2002. Supported formats include: A.M. Composer 1.2 AC1D Actionamics AHX Amos Music Bank AProSys Art and Magic Art of Noise Audiosculpture Beathoven Synthesizer Benn Daglish Bladepacker / Unique Development Channel Player 1, 2, 3 Chip Tracker (KRIS Tracker) Custom Made / Ron Klaren Customplay Darius Zendeh Dave Lowe (old and new) David Whittaker Delitracker custom songs Delta Music 1.0 and 2.0 Delta Packer 1.0 / Tronic Digibooster 1.x Digital Illusions Digital Mugician DSS.
FTL Games - FTL Games FTL Games (Faster Than Light) was the video game development division of Software Heaven Inc. FTL created several popular video games in the 1980s and early 1990s. Despite their small size, FTL products were consistently number-one sellers and received the highest critical acclaim and industry awards. FTL was founded by Wayne Holder in 1982. Holder started Software Heaven and FTL as its game division after founding Oasis Systems which specialized in spell checking software. He hired Bruce Webster, with whom he graduated from high school in 1971, to head FTL. The Games FTL released several games throughout its relatively short history. Surprisingly, most went on to become best sellers and some even set new standards for games of their genre. SunDog Holder and Webster co-designed.
Velodrome - other sports grounds and any banking on these was usually quite shallow. Modern velodrome surfaces are of wood or smoothed concrete. While outdoor veldromes used to be the norm, new velodromes tend to be indoor venues, particuarly if they are to be used for high-level competition. A velodrome will usually be among the facilities constructed for major events such as the Olympics or Commonwealth Games. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 List of velodromes 1.1 United Kingdom 1.2 Links List of velodromes United Kingdom (outdoor, unless stated) Aldersley, Wolverhampton Brighton (Preston Park), East Sussex Calshot, near Southampton, Hampshire (indoor) Cardiff (Maindy Park) Cleveland, Teesside Gypsies Green, South Shields (currently semi-derelict) Halesowen, near Birmingham Herne Hill, south London Kirkby, near Liverpool Leeds (Roundhay Park), West Yorkshire Leicester (Saffron Lane Sport Centre) Meadowbank, Edinburgh.
Kate Sobrero - NSCAA All-American team one time and was chosen for the All-State team three times. After graduating high school, she decided to attend Notre Dame. In Notre Dame, she was a member of the Dean's List, and graduated with a degree in science and business. She was a three time NSCAA All-American while there, was a three time all Big East selection, the 1997 Big East defensive player of the year, and the defensive MVP of the NCAA's Final Four in 1995, year in which her team won the NCAA women's soccer championship. In 1998, she played in her first U.S. women's national team game, when they faced the national selection of Argentina. Sobrero was the youngest member of the team that won the world cup in 1999, and she participated also.
Vectrex - which displayed vector graphics. It also had screen overlays that would cut down on flickering and also add some color and static images. At the time many of the most popular arcade games used vector displays, and GCE was looking to set themselves apart from the pack by selling high-quality versions of games like Asteroids, Space Wars, and Armor Attack. Technical specifications CPU : Motorola 68A09 @ 1.6MHz CRT : Samsung 240RB40 B&W Vector RAM: 1KB×4-bit 2114 (two) ROM: 8KB×8-bit 2363 Sound: General Instrument AY-3-8912 List of game titles 3D Crazy Coaster 3D Minestorm 3D Narrow Escape AnimAction Armor Attack Art Master Bedlam Berzerk Blitz! Action Football Clean Sweep Cosmic Chasm Cube Quest Flipper Pinball Fortress of Narzod Heads Up Action Soccer Hyperchase Auto Race Melody Master Mine Storm Polar Rescue Pole Position.
Ken Whyld - writing books on chess and researching its history. As well as the Oxford Companion to Chess, Whyld was the author of other reference works such as Chess: The Records (1986), an adjunct to the Guinness Book of Records and the comprehensive The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker (1998). He also researched more esoteric subjects, resulting in works such as Alekhine Nazi Articles (2002) on articles in favour of the Nazi Party supposedly written by world chess champion Alexander Alekhine, and the bibliographies Fake Chess Automata in Chess (1994) and Chess Columns: A List (2002). From 1978 until his death in 2003, Whyld wrote the "Notes and Queries" column in the British Chess Magazine. Shortly after Whyld's death, the Ken Whyld Association was established with the aim of compiling a comprehensive chess.
King's Quest - released in 1984 and ran on DOS and the Apple II. It was later ported to other platforms such as the Amiga and Atari ST. A screenshot from King's Quest IV, "The Perils Of Rosella", 1990 () There have been eight King's Quest games released: King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride King's Quest VIII: The Mask of Eternity There are a number of websites giving plans for a ninth installment in the series (many just that, plans), but there is no official King's Quest IX. Summary of the.
Konami - Kagemasa Kozuki. Over the years Konami has created some of the biggest and most memorable video games from the vampire hunting Castlevania series through the action/shooter Contra series to the pop culture craze of Dance Dance Revolution. Many easter eggs are hidden in NES Konami games through the mechanism of the Konami Code. During the games start phase, the player presses, quickly, Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A. Softography (Incomplete - Maybe the game list should have it's own page?) Arcade 1978: Block Game 1980: Scramble, Astro Invader, Missile X, The End 1981: Frogger(released by Sega) The Hustler, Ultra Dome, Super Cobra, Jungler, Turban, Strategy X, Tactician, Locomotion, Space War, Turtles (released by Stern) 1982: Pooyan, Time Pilot, Amidar, Tutankam, Com'On Mama, Rock'n Rope, Rescue (released by Stern) 1983: Track and Field(called Hyper Olympic outside America),.
Jay Miner - would go on to be the basis of the Atari 8-bit family of home computers, known as ANTIC and GTIA. In the early 1980s Jay, along with other Atari staffers, had become fed up with management and decamped. They set up another chip-set project under a new company in Santa Clara, called Hi-Toro (later renamed to Amiga), where they could have some creative freedom. There, they started to create a new 68000-based games console, codenamed Lorraine, that could be upgraded to a full-fledged computer. To raise money for the Lorraine project, Amiga designed and sold joysticks and game cartridges for popular game consoles such as the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision, as well as an odd input device called the Joyboard, essentially a joystick the player stood on. In 1984 Warner Brothers.
