The researchers invited 45 volunteers to play a computer game and also to watch the computer play the game.

* Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, an adventure computer game

* Antwerp ( Quest For Glory ), a monster in the Quest for Glory computer role-playing game series

* A Protoss tribe in the computer game StarCraft

The Academy of Interactive Entertainment ( AIE ) offers courses in computer game development and 3D animation.

It was initially intended to be a next generation video game machine, but was redesigned as a general purpose computer after the North American video game crash of 1983.

* Ark, in the computer game Doom

* Will Wright's computer game SimCity 2000 allows the construction of four different types of arcologies.

* In the computer game Civilization: Call to Power, the " Arcology Advance ," found in a near future part of the technology list, grants access to the Arcology building, which reduces overcrowding effects in its host city.

* In the computer game Escape Velocity: Nova, many planets that are part of the Auroran Empire have multiple arcologies on them.

* The tutorial in the computer game Dystopia takes place in Yggdrasil's first arcology.

* The wholly self-sustained utopian society ' Rapture ' in the computer and Xbox 360 game BioShock is an underwater example of an arcology.

* The Outpost computer game and its sequel both focus on building arcologies ( called ' colonies ' in the game ) on various planets to contain what remains of Humanity after Earth is obliterated by an asteroid.

A conversion of the popular computer game was released by GCC in 2004.

In some versions, the two player game can also be played by one player against a computer opponent.

This rivalry inspired the spin-off computer game Beanotown Racing, in which various characters from both comics could be raced around points in Beanotown, including the Embassy.

Enthusiasts build their systems in order to produce a computer that will out-perform an opponent's computer, thereby " winning " in a contest ; to simply enjoy the best images and effects a new PC game has to offer ; or even simply to obtain the best possible performance at a variety of tasks.

Sandy Petersen, now best known for his work on the Doom computer game, contacted them regarding writing a supplement for their popular fantasy game RuneQuest set in Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

* Afterlife ( computer game )

* Pictures of the Aster CT-80 model one from a Spanish computer museum, the educational model with an opening for a cassette player is the one on the right

The computer Deep Blue was the first machine player to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.

The F8 processor at the heart of the console is able to produce enough AI to allow for player versus computer matches, a first in console history.

There is a wide array of power-ups, such as a backpack that increases the player character's ammunition-carrying capacity, armor, first aid kits to restore health, the berserk pack ( a dark first aid box that puts the character into berserk mode, allowing him to deal out rocket launcher-level damage with his fists and potentially splattering former humans and imps, as well as setting the user's health to 100 % if it were lower ), supernatural blue orbs ( named soul spheres in the manuals ) that boost the player character's health up to a maximum of 200 %, nightvision, computer maps ( which show every area of the level ), partial invisibility, and protective suits that allow the player to survive in toxic acids.

* A combination of two devices ( or only one, if playback is digital ) to play sound recordings, for alternating back and forth to create a continuous playback of music ( for example, record players, Compact Disc players, computer media players such as an MP3 player, etc.

* Whether ( computer controlled ) barbarians should invade player settlements

At some point, the server may be ordered to start a game ; in response, it creates game players ( nations ) and the game map, and assigns every player to either a Freeciv client or a computer player, as specified by the configuration.

Khufu and his pyramid are even thematized in several computer games such as Tomb Raider-The last revelation, in which the player must enter Khufu ´ s pyramid and face the god Seth as the final boss.

In some online computer games, players can form groups called player guilds, wherein people can socialize and organize various in-game activities.

The Keystone Kops also appear in the computer game NetHack, usually when the player steals from one of the shops.

* 1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.

The earliest programming languages predate the invention of the computer, and were used to direct the behavior of machines such as Jacquard looms and player pianos.

In many computer adventure games, and especially first-person shooters, the player character is an anonymous person with no character history or backstory.

In all of these examples, player instructions can be either executed by a human moderator, a computer program, or a combination of the two.

* Player character or playable character, a fictional character controlled by a human player, usually in role-playing games or computer games

Detailed computer analysis has been done to determine the ideal strategy, but this requires memorizing large tables ; a close approximation can be done with only a few rules of thumb: when playing in a casino and in doubt, a player can always ask that his hand be set house way.

Although no model or workable device was ever made, it is often seen as a link to the concept of punched paper for player piano rolls ( 1880s ), as well as Herman Hollerith's punch card tabulator ( used in the 1890 United States census ), a distant precursor of the modern computer.

This category of device was created to provide more functionality than an audio CD player or game console, but at a lower price than a personal computer with CD-ROM drive at the time.

The player controls an in-game paddle by moving it vertically across the left side of the screen, and can compete against either a computer controlled opponent or another player controlling a second paddle on the opposing side.

If the computer controlling the display knows the exact position and color of all the subpixels on the screen, it can take advantage of this to improve the apparent resolution of the images on the screen in certain situations.

Database access control deals with controlling who ( a person or a certain computer program ) is allowed to access what information in the database.

The trains have always been fully automated and controlled by computer operations and have no driver ; a Passenger Service Agent ( PSA ) on each train, originally referred to as a " Train Captain ", is responsible for patrolling the train, checking tickets, making announcements and controlling the doors.

More generally, the ELIZA effect describes any situation where, based solely on a system's output, users perceive computer systems as having " intrinsic qualities and abilities which the software controlling the ( output ) cannot possibly achieve " or " assume that reflect a greater causality than they actually do.

* Class 1 fax devices do fax data transfer where the T. 4 / T. 6 data compression and T. 30 session management are performed by software on a controlling computer.

* Class 2 fax devices perform T. 30 session management themselves, but the T. 4 / T. 6 data compression is performed by software on a controlling computer.

Instead, the final pattern is created directly from a digital representation on a computer, by controlling an electron beam as it scans across a resist-coated substrate.

In telecommunications, RS-232 is the traditional name for a series of standards for serial binary single-ended data and control signals connecting between a < span title =" Usually a controlling terminal or a computer "> DTE </ span > ( Data Terminal Equipment ) and a < span title =" Usually a modem or target device "> DCE </ span > ( Data Circuit-terminating Equipment ).

They booted over the network ( via an Excelan EXOS / 101 Ethernet card ) from their controlling computer.

When it was destroyed in the first arc of Ultimate X-Men, the computer controlling the base gained self-awareness, and hijacked the genetic experiment project to create an army of nanotech-enhanced, zombie-like thralls.

It is indicated, however, that the Doctor is only speaking to the " computer " controlling the TARDIS rather than the " soul " he interacted with earlier.

** controlling a computer with great computation power or, more commonly, large network bandwidth

# In computer and communications security, the central part of a computer or communications system hardware, firmware, and software that implements the basic security procedures for controlling access to system resources.

A human player's character and computer bot's character features the same set of physical properties, initial health, initial armour, weapon capabilities, the same available character maneuvers and speed — i. e. they are equally matched except for the actual controlling part.

Many functions once controlled with levers have been replaced with some model of electrical switch with the rise of indirect computer controlling of functions in modern tractors.

In computer science, a semaphore is a variable or abstract data type that provides a simple but useful abstraction for controlling access by multiple processes to a common resource in a parallel programming environment.

* Guard ( information security ), a device for controlling communication between computer networks

A similar goal is achieved since 1960s with a different technique: I / O channel, or simply channel, is a separate processor that can access main memory independently, in parallel with CPU ( like later DMA in personal computer field ), and that executes its own I / O-dedicated programs when pointed to such by the controlling CPU.

For example to print a barcode on a label, the controlling computer would send a series of codes to the printer, requesting a particular barcode type and specifying its size and location on the label, along with the data to be printed as a barcode.

It was first used in a piano and computer piece called Pluton ( written by Philippe Manoury in 1988 ), synchronizing the computer to the piano and controlling a Sogitec 4X, which performed the audio processing.

This relative motion is the same as a mouse for controlling position of a computer screen cursor.