" Asteroids was so popular that video arcade operators sometimes had to install larger boxes to hold the number of coins that were spent by players.

This process doubles the apparent number of video fields per second and further reduces flicker and other defects in transmission.

A film can be both a major studio release and a cult film, particularly if despite its affiliation with a major studio, it failed to achieve broad success on either the theatrical or home video markets but was championed by a small number of dedicated film fanatics who seek out lesser-known offerings.

The reformed Dead Kennedys followed their court victory by announcing a number of tour dates, releasing reissues of all Dead Kennedys albums ( except Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, to which they did not have the rights until 2005 ), releasing several new archival concert DVDs, and licensing several songs to The Manchurian Candidate remake and the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game.

A number of popular compression formats exploit these perceptual differences, including those used in music files, images, and video.

In areas of video with more motion, the compression must encode more data to keep up with the larger number of pixels that are changing.

Thus, interlaced video captures samples the scene motion twice as often as progressive video does, for the same number of frames per second.

The many video formats and parameters to be set make it quite impossible to come up with a specific number for how many minutes need how much time.

The Digimon series has a large number of video games which usually have their own independent storylines with a few sometimes tying into the stories of the anime series or manga series.

The games consists of a number of genres including life simulation, adventure, video card game, strategy and racing games, though they are mainly action role-playing games.

This can include ball games, Blind man's bluff, board games, card games, children's games, croquet, Frisbee, hide and seek, number games, paintball and video games.

" Not Counting You " reached number 2, and then " The Dance " put him at number-one again ; this song's theme of people dying while doing something they believe in resonated strongly and, together with a popular music video, directed by John Lloyd Miller, gave Brooks his first push towards a broader audience.

Flat Eric featured in the video for Mr. Oizo's " Flat Beat " in 1999 ; the puppet and instrumental UK number one were popularised through use in advert for Levi Strauss & Co. | Levi's Sta-Prest jeans.

A number of online retailers, and fulfillment houses operate from the Channel Islands, including Jersey, supplying a variety of low-value goods such as CDs, DVDs, video games, and gadgets.

A number of Filipino migrants brought with them their own ' minus-one ' music from cassette music tapes and video tapes purchased mainly in the Philippines.

With the popularity of telecine transfers and video edits, Kodak invented a machine readable edge number that could be recorded via computer, read by the editing computer and automatically produce a " cut list " from the video edit of the film.

A number of photographs and a video have confirmed the presence of seals in the loch, for up to months at a time.

* Enemy characters and items based on mandrakes are found in a number of video games ; the best-known example is the Pokemon Oddish.

Today, MPEG-1 has become the most widely compatible lossy audio / video format in the world, and is used in a large number of products and technologies.

. mpg is one of a number of file extensions for MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 audio and video compression.

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ) is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world.

The Ogg container format can multiplex a number of independent streams for audio, video, text ( such as subtitles ), and metadata.

They succeeded in bringing the first home video game system to market, the Odyssey, which was quickly followed by a number of later models, each with a few technological improvements ( Magnavox Odyssey Series ).

There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Astérix, is themed around the series.

Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic games are: Stand Up and Cheer, the Acadia University fight song.

Notable among a number of fight songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic games are: the Acadia University alma mater set to the tune of " Annie Lisle ".

State of origin games also declined in importance, especially after an increasing number of withdrawals by AFL players.

At the time, a key driver for success with a home console was the number of home conversions it had of popular arcade games.

Telegames released a number of games in the second half of the 1990s, including a port of Raiden and a platformer called Fat Bobby in 1997, as well as an action sports game called Hyperdrome in 1999.

Since then a number of independent developers released games into the new decade, like Championship Rally, CyberVirus, and Alpine Games.

Learning time does not necessarily correlate with the number or complexity of rules ; some games, such as chess or Go, have simple rulesets while possessing profound strategies.

A number of important historical sites, artifacts and documents exist which shed light on early board games.

There are a number of different categories that board games can be broken up into, although considerable overlap exists, and a game may belong in several categories.

* CG — Complete game: number of games where player was the only pitcher for his team

* GF — Games finished: number of games pitched where player was the final pitcher for his team as a relief pitcher

* GS — Starts: number of games pitched where player was the first pitcher for his team

* HLD ( or H )— Hold: number of games entered in a save situation, recorded at least one out, did not surrender the lead, and did not complete the game

* L — Loss: number of games where pitcher was pitching while the opposing team took the lead, never lost the lead, and went on to win

* SHO — Shutout: number of complete games pitched with no runs allowed

* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings

* W — Win: number of games where pitcher was pitching while his team took the lead and went on to win, also the starter needs to pitch at least 5 innings of work ( also related: winning percentage )

* G — Games played: number of games where the player played, in whole or in part

* GS — Games Started: number of games a player starts

* GB — Games behind: number of games a team is behind the division leader

Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

It was during this period that a number of simple computer games were written in BASIC, most notably Mike Mayfield's Star Trek.

There are three general categories of casino games: table games, electronic gaming machines, and random number ticket games such as Keno and simulated racing.