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* Laser Squad Nemesis is a 2002 turn-based low-budget PC turn-based tactics game developed by Gollop's new company, Codo Technologies, very similar to the Battlescape ground combat system of the first X-COM game.
* Laser Squad: a science fiction tactical game by the original creators of X-COM and an immediate predecessor of X-COM ( UFO: Enemy Unknown began development as Laser Squad 2 at first ).
* Rebelstar series: precursor games to both Laser Squad and the X-COM series, also created by the same developers.
Examples of Amiga games using digitized instrument samples include David Whittaker's soundtrack for Shadow of the Beast, Chris Hülsbeck's soundtrack for Turrican 2 and Matt Furniss's tunes for Laser Squad.
The game was based heavily, and unofficially, on the Alien films, specificially Aliens, and also on the 8-bit-era games Laser Squad and Paradroid ( although the game bears some gameplay similarities with Gauntlet, with which it has been compared, as well an obvious comparison with Sega's Alien Syndrome ).
Originally planned by Julian Gollop as a sequel to Target Games ' 1988 Laser Squad, the game mixes real-time management simulation with turn-based tactics.
Laser is one of Time Squad's best agents, and was voted most likely to become Time Squad commissioner by his graduating class.
Rebelstar ( 1984 ) and Laser Squad ( 1988 ) were precursors to X-COM created by the same developer, Julian Gollop.
Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics video game, originally released for the ZX Spectrum and later for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga and Atari ST and PC computers.
The influence of the game can be seen in other titles like the X-COM series, especially the acclaimed UFO: Enemy Unknown which was also created by Julian Gollop and was initially conceived as a sequel to Laser Squad.
Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics war game where the player completes objectives such as rescue or retrieval operations, or simply eliminating all of the enemy, by maneuvering the squad's team members around a map one at a time, taking actions such as move, turn, shoot, pick up and so on that would use up the unit's action points.
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Rebelstar and Laser Squad are among the earliest examples of turn based unit level wargame video games.
Many of the Laser Squad mechanics were re-used in the later X-COM series of games, created also by Gollop and Mythos Games but published by MicroProse.
Some of the name choices for characters and organizations in the games of Mythos and Codo are a thread connecting all the Laser Squad and Rebelstar games.
Mythos Games later released a similar game called Lords of Chaos, which had many similarities to Laser Squad but was set in a fantasy genre of wizards, dragons and spell-casting.
The Laser Squad franchise has been revived by Gollop's Codo Technologies with the play-by-email game Laser Squad Nemesis, although this departs from the turn-based action point system and does not have customizable weaponry.
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Laser and game
Prior to the NES version, Nintendo also made a Duck Hunt game based on Laser Clay Shooting System released in 1976.
Nintendo released the Beam Gun in 1970 and the Laser Clay Shooting System in 1973, followed in 1974 by the arcade game Wild Gunman, which used video projection to display the target on the screen.
Home theater designs and layouts are a personal choice, and the minimum set of requirements for a home theater are: a television set or video projector CRT ( no new models sold in U. S .), LCD, DLP, plasma display, organic light-emitting diode ( OLED ), SXRD, Laser TV, rear-projection TV, video projector, SDTV, HDTV, or 3DTV at least 27 " inches measured diagonally, an AV receiver or preamp ( surround processor ) and amplifier combination capable of at least stereo sound but preferably 5. 1 Channel Dolby Digital and DTS audio, and something that plays or broadcasts movies in at least stereo sound such as a VHS HI-FI VCR or LaserDisc player ( no new stand-alone models of either are available ; VHS VCRs are usually bundled in combo decks with DVD players ), a DVD player and / or a Blu-ray Disc player, cable or satellite receiver, video game console, etc.
The studio was also involved in programming the KORG DS-10 synthesizer program for the Nintendo DS, while Mitsuda himself produced and composed for an iPhone game, bQLSI Star Laser.
The game features two weapons new to the Metroid series: the tri-splitting Spazer Laser Beam, and the Plasma Beam, which passes through enemies when shot.
In an effort to make up for the slow loading time, the game has a feature where the player can select the " Start " button and manipulate a set of twirling black and white balls, known in the manual as " Laser Balls ".
The LaserScope was manufactured specifically for one Konami game, Laser Invasion, but could be used with any game that used the NES Zapper as a peripheral.
It was noted particularly for software such as the multiplatform word processor SpeedScript, the spreadsheet SpeedCalc, and the game Laser Chess.
" on the highscore table will activate a secret mode, allowing the user to choose to play the original Tempest 2000 game ; however, any high scores made in this mode are not saved, the music ( wave-captured from the original modules ) is muffled and the effectiveness of the Particle Laser against Spikes is not restored even in this original mode.
Laser Quest is the name of a Canadian-based indoor lasertag game based around infrared ( IR ) hand held units and vests, as well as the name of the company which operates each game centre.

Squad and Flash
He brought back in to the studio clients like DJ Run of Run-DMC, producer Larry Smith ( Whodini, Run-DMC, Grandmaster Flash ), Herbie Azor and Salt-n-Pepa, as well as bringing in new superstar producers like P Diddy Hit Squad producer Ron ( Amen Ra ) Lawrence.
Legends served mainly as a launching pad for several new comic series, including the latter-day Flash title, Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis ' comedy / action take on the Justice League, and the villain-based black ops Suicide Squad.
Seen in the DC Comics Flash and Suicide Squad.
He is later seen capturing the Rogues responsible for the murder of the Flash, alongside a new Suicide Squad composed of Bronze Tiger, Captain Boomerang ( Owen Mercer ), Plastique, Multiplex and Deadshot.
Kobra also fought the third Flash, the Suicide Squad led by Amanda Waller, the original incarnation of Checkmate, Captain Atom, a Superman whose personality had been swapped with Ambush Bug's by exposure to red kryptonite, and others.
They are pursued by heroes and villains alike-in the form of the Suicide Squad, the Question and Batwoman, Poison Ivy and Deathstroke, and eventually Piper's former friend and the newly-returned previous Flash, Wally West.
* Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade-Earth Caste Builder, Shield Drone, Drone Squad, Flash Gitz, Grey Knights, Governor-Militant Lukas Alexander

Squad and game
Advanced Squad Leader ( 1985 ) became a niche hobby in and of itself, and Axis and Allies ( 1984 ) was very popular with the mass market audience and Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battle ( 1983 ) spawned a long-lasting line popular miniatures games including the successive editions of Warhammer and the science-fantasy Warhammer 40, 000 game.
He tries to get Michael Jordan's autograph when the basketball star is first recruited to join the team and later plays for the Toon Squad in the game itself, scoring one basket.
The popular long-time game series Advanced Squad Leader was licensed to Multi-Man Publishing.
The movie Tropa de Elite ( Elite Squad ) and video game Max Payne 3 have scenes depicting this practice.
Multi-Man Publishing, LLC (" MMP "), founded in 1994, is a Maryland based game company that publishes many wargame titles, including Advanced Squad Leader and Operational Combat Series.
* Liberal Crime Squad, an ASCII based game
Virtua Cop ( known as Virtua Squad for the North American Windows version ) is a first-person lightgun shooter arcade game created by Sega-AM2 and headed by Yu Suzuki.
The game follows the story of a Marine named Matthew Kane who is a member of the fabled Rhino Squad.
The video game The Getaway featured the protagonist as an officer of the Flying Squad.
The game takes place after the events of the movie and stars Reed Fox, a pilot of the Illuminati's Lightning Squad.
* Kirby: Squeak Squad, Nintendo DS game, 2006
* The political-simulation video game Republic: The Revolution features the Alpha Squad, first as an action taken by the corrupt President of Novistrana against the " Democracy Now " party, and then against his most dangerous enemies.
The U. S. A. Women's Olympic Squad played an exhibition game vs. Sweden on December 15, 2001.
* DC writer and editor Geoff Johns has confirmed that a video game based on the Suicide Squad is in development.
At the start of the new 2010 / 11 Aviva Premiership questions had been raised about the size of the Squad. However saints start the season of with a 6 game winning streak. They finished fourth in the Aviva Premiership, losing to Leicester in a controversial semi-final.
The game was first published by Avalon Hill in 1985 as a successor to the award-winning Squad Leader series, on which the game is based and from which the rules and components were directly developed.
Many fans of the original Squad Leader game who had looked forward to improvements to the system with the release of Advanced Squad Leader were taken aback by the need to replace the four modules they had bought ; only the mapboards of the earlier series were compatible with the new game.

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