* Pad and a few months later, system-defined Notesfiles, 1973, the first general-purpose computer message board, and precursor to Unix Newsgroups, Digital DECnotes and Lotus Notes.

In 1829, the family emigrated to Western Australia on board the Lotus, arriving at the Swan River Colony only four months after its establishment.

The game is a pure platform game, relying on smooth, fast moving gameplay, colorful graphics and a popular soundtrack by Patrick Phelan which overlaps with the Lotus 3 soundtrack and has inspired several modern electro / techno remixes.

In the roleplaying game Feng Shui, the Eight Immortals appear in the sourcebook Thorns of the Lotus.

The game ( and next two sequels ) was created by the same developers as the similar Lotus games released earlier in the Commodore Amiga and Sega Mega Drive videogame systems.

Gremlin scored big with the Zool and Premier Manager series in the early 1990s, and then with Actua Soccer, the first football game in full 3D, while having success with other games such as the Lotus racing series, a futuristic racing game Motorhead, a stunt car racing game Fatal racing ( 1995 ) or a 1998 flight simulator Hardwar.

Women Wise's major product so far has been a CD-ROM computer game entitled The Legend of Lotus Spring.

Women Wise had intended The Legend of Lotus Spring to have an online sequel similar to the abandoned Myst game URU Live.

The release of Lotus Edition ( in 2005 ) and Samurai Edition ( 2007 ) saw extensive changes to several aspects of the game.

The game allowed the player to race a Lotus Esprit Turbo SE car through several ( 32 in the Amiga version ) circuit race tracks of varying scenery.

The second Lotus game shifted focus to arcade-oriented gameplay.

Being the first of the series released for a game console ( for Sega Mega Drive under the title Lotus Turbo Challenge ), the fuel limit and difficulty levels were dropped, and the lap-based levels were replaced with course-based time trials, ( not unlike arcade games such as Out Run ), with the player required to complete each course within a specified time to qualify for the next one.

In an improvement over its predecessor, Lotus 2's single-player mode used all of the game screen instead of half, and opponent cars appeared in a variety of colors ( opponent cars in the original game were all white ).

Barry Leitch's intro music for Lotus 2 is often found on playlists of retro computer music webradio stations ; it contains a sampled voice at around the 12-second mark ( played through the left channel only ) which says " you will not copy this game ".

Lotus 2 used a password system to access different races ( once the player qualified for a particular race, the password was revealed ); the password DUX accessed a hidden game, and the password TURPENTINE removed the race time limits.

The third game in the series combined the gameplay aspects of its predecessors, allowing players to choose between racing opponents of Lotus Turbo Challenge or the arcade-like time trials of Lotus 2.

The game recycled most of the graphics from Lotus 2, but added a number of new sceneries.

The Mega Drive version bears the name Lotus II: RECS ( referring to the game's new course creation feature ), while the DOS port released in 1993 was simply called Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge due to being the only Lotus game on that platform.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

* Lotus ( plant ), various botanical taxa

* Lotus ( guitar ), an instrument manufacturer

* Lotus ( American band ), a 2000s instrumental rock band

* Lotus ( Hong Kong band ), a 1960s pop band

* Lotus ( Christina Aguilera album ) ( 2012 ), by Christina Aguilera

* Lotus ( Elisa album ) ( 2003 ), by Elisa

* Lotus ( Santana album ) ( 1974 ), by Santana

* Lotus ( Arashi song ), by Arashi

* Lotus ( Dir En Grey song ), by Dir En Grey

* Lotus ( song ), by R. E. M.

The Lotus Clan's strategy is based on their immense understanding of magic, which translates to unit abilities and Battle Gear.

When it was decided that Asteroids would be a vector game as well, Delman modified a Lunar Lander circuit board for Ed Logg.

* Anagrams, a board game

Achilles and Ajax play a board game with knucklebones on this late 6th-century lekythos, a type of oil-storing vessel associated with funeral rites

Acquire is a board game designed by Sid Sackson.

The array on the game board is arranged with lettered rows ( A through I ) and numbered columns ( 1 through 12 ).

Any player may declare the game over at any time during his turn if either of two conditions is true: one chain has 41 or more tiles, or there is at least one chain on the board and every chain on the board has 11 or more tiles.

The game was short-listed for the first Spiel des Jahres board game awards in 1979.

French earthenware tray and board game, 1720 – 50

A board game is a game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or " board ", according to a set of rules.

Rules can range from the very simple, as in tic-tac-toe, to those describing a game universe in great detail, as in Dungeons & Dragons ( although most of the latter are role-playing games where the board is secondary to the game, helping to visualize the game scenario ).

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek hoplite s playing a board game, ca.

Senet is the oldest board game known to have existed, and was pictured in a fresco found in Merknera's tomb ( 3300 – 2700 BC ).

* Mehen, another ancient board game from Predynastic Egypt

* Go, an ancient strategic board game originating in China

* Patolli, a board game originating in Mesoamerica played by the ancient Aztec

* c. 3000 BC: The Mehen board game from Predynastic Egypt, was played with lion-shaped game pieces and marbles.

* c. 1500 BC: Painting of board game at Knossos.