The characters and theme of the game are based on the 1986 platform arcade game Bubble Bobble.

An annual private media summit called Captivate, renamed from Gamers Day in 2008, is traditionally used as a platform for new game and business announcements.

The Commander Keen series, a platform game introducing one of the first smooth side-scrolling game engines for MS-DOS, brought Id Software into the gaming mainstream.

Kid Icarus, known as in Japan, is an action platform video game for the Famicom Disk System in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in Europe and North America.

Edge gave it a score of 8 / 10 in its original 1996 review of the game, and in its October 2003 issue the magazine's staff placed Nights in its list of the ten greatest platform games.

* Oscar ( video game ), a 1993 platform game

However, this makes it harder for the community to create mods and it makes the process of porting the game to another platform ( such as GNU / Linux ) more costly.

As of August 5, 2009, Red Faction has been made available through the Steam platform with a few of the problems associated with running the game on a modern computer fixed.

The game is also seen as having been key to expanding the Mario series into non-platforming games, where the main goal in platform games is when the hero has to rescue the damsel in distress ; this diversity has led to it become the best-selling game franchise of all time.

A 256-colour version of the game was released for the Acorn RISC OS platform on floppy disk, with a CD version including voice acting released later.

This can cross-over with other action genres: a platform game which requires a novel mechanic to complete levels might be a " puzzle platformer ", such as manipulating time in Braid.

A platform game ( or platformer ) is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles ( jumping puzzles ).

Sega AM2's first attempt in the genre was the anime-style arcade game Burning Rival, but began to attract attention with the release of Virtua Fighter for the same platform the same year.

Studios like Insomniac and Game Freak are very rare in the video game industry because without the direct support of the platform owner, it is very risky financially to be developing solely for a particular platform.

It was also the last version released for the Commodore Amiga platform from which the game originated.

The early Spectrum models ' great success as a games platform came in spite of its lack of built-in joystick ports, primitive sound generation, and colour support that was optimised for text display: the hardware limitations of the platform required a particular level of creativity from video game designers.

Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions ( called story files, or Z-code files ), and could therefore port all its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform.

In China it was a baby sitting on a railroad platform, smudged, blood-specked, with the village burning about him and shells exploding.

Behind this is a minber or Moslem pulpit and near it a raised platform with golden grillwork, where the emperors and, after them, the sultans, sat.

The restrained gyro-stabilized platform with reasonable response characteristics operates with an approximate equation of motion, neglecting transient effects, as follows: Af where U is a torque applied about the output axis of the controlling gyro.

Thus if the gyro and platform-controller combination maintains the platform with zero angular deviation about the **yf axis, the system can be rotated with an angular velocity Af if a torque is supplied to the gyro output axis Aj.

The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.

However, the leveling operation can be maintained and controlled remotely with no mechanical or optical contact with the platform.

With this situation, it is difficult to sight in on the platform with surveying equipment.

Essentially, the stator or reference portion of the pickoff is established with respect to the true heading direction, and the platform is turned either manually or automatically until the angular electrical pickoff signal is reduced to zero.

Figure 7-3 shows a platform system with the gyro vectors arranged as described above.

Since the earth is rotating and the unleveled gyro-stabilized platform is fixed with respect to a reference in space, an observer on the earth will see the platform rotating ( with respect to the earth ).

How could supplying Eichmann with a platform on which to maintain that one could collaborate in the murder of millions of Jews without being an anti-semite contribute to a verdict against anti-Semitism??

If the resulting four kilobyte table size is too large for a given target platform, the table lookup operation can be performed with a single 256-entry 32-bit ( i. e. 1 kilobyte ) table by the use of circular rotates.

The Pnyx with the speaker's platform, the meeting place of the people of Athens.

As an experimental problem solving platform, the project showcases and collects ideas at scale with local and global impact.

Finding it difficult to bombard with catapults, he ordered the construction of a platform where his siege weapons could be mounted to greater effect, and cut the water supply.

There was an artificial platform there and this apparent verification of Thom's long alignment hypothesis ( Kintraw was diagnosed as an accurate winter solstice site ) led him to check Thom's geometrical theories at the Cultoon stone circle in Islay, also with a positive result.

AMOS competed on the Amiga platform with Acid Software's Blitz BASIC.

Most of the C code being written nowadays is based on ANSI C. Any program written only in standard C and without any hardware dependent assumptions is virtually guaranteed to compile correctly on any platform with a conforming C implementation.

In Fig. 7-4, the input axis of the three-axis platform is shown at some point on the earth.

An applet can also be a text area only, providing, for instance, a cross platform command-line interface to some remote system.

Therefore, a company must analyze its business workflows and processes before choosing a technology platform ; some will likely need re-engineering to better serve the overall goal of winning and satisfying clients.

The implementation of the Wimax and HSPA technology by some of the Cellphone service providers are resulting in the rapid investment by other providers in the market to match the new and faster platform of services.

An applet can also be a text area only, providing, for instance, a cross platform command-line interface to some remote system.

Id Software was an early pioneer in the Linux gaming market, and Id Software's Linux games have been some of the most popular of the platform.

The platform provides some interesting tools as segment annotations for group collaboration.

In 2010, the second-generation Volkswagen Sharan and SEAT Alhambra were presented, making the debut of the brand new Volkswagen group's MQB platform, and like their predecessors did, they were both again almost identical in design one to another, with the exception of the front fascias, rear ends and some minor details.

Only the platform and some elements of the columns had been completed by this point, and the temple remained in this state for 336 years.

UCSD p-System shares some concepts with the more current Java platform.

In addition, some open source wiki applications also describe themselves as enterprise solutions, including Foswiki, which calls itself " the free and open source enterprise collaboration platform ", and TWiki, which calls itself " the Open Source Enterprise Wiki ".

Although White Dwarf has always served as a promotions and advertising platform for Games Workshop and Citadel products, some of its longer term fans have noted that the current incarnation seems to be more geared towards sales and promotion of new releases than it was in the past.

The cartoon-style platform games are notable for their pioneering use of EGA graphics and shareware distribution, and they were some of the first games by id Software ( which went on to develop blockbusters like Doom and Quake ).

A roughly R4RS-compatible implementation of Scheme, LispMe, provides the Palm platform with a GPL-licensed onboard Lisp REPL with some Palm OS-specific adaptations, but although it is functionally a compiler it does not produce code that operates outside the development environment, so its use is restricted to prototyping.

Minter then wrote games for the Pocket PC platform, some of which also had PC conversions ( using a customized Pocket PC emulator ).

Some platform types, such as submarines, minimise their susceptibility and may to some extent compromise in the other areas.

They also have some sort of " levitation beams " seen in the TV film " In the Beginning " wherein Lennon and a group of Minbari emissaries from the Grey Council are levitated from a platform on the ground up to ship high above them.

Trident, the web browser engine from Internet Explorer, is used by many applications on the Microsoft Windows platform, such as netSmart, Outlook Express, some versions of Microsoft Outlook, and the mini-browsers in Winamp and RealPlayer.

Reginald Aldworth Daly offered a somewhat different explanation for atoll formation: islands worn away by erosion, by ocean waves and streams, during the last glacial stand of the sea of some below present sea level developed as coral islands ( atolls ), or barrier reefs on a platform surrounding a volcanic island not completely worn away, as sea level gradually rose from melting of the glaciers.

For a marine site, while some form of working platform ( typically a boat or ship ) is often needed, shore-based activities are common.

Many ancient Greek tragedians employed the ekkyklêma as a theatrical device, which was a platform hidden behind the scene that could be rolled out to display the aftermath of some event which had happened out of sight of the audience.

EOF enjoyed some niche success in the mid-1990s among financial institutions who were attracted to the rapid application development advantages of NeXT's object-oriented platform.

Since Apple's and Microsoft's operating systems supported different character sets in the platform related fonts, some foundries used expert fonts in a different way.

Several stairways rise to the upper platform from the lower ; that at the northwest corner is believed by some archaeologists be part of a much wider monumental staircase, mostly hidden or destroyed, and dating from the Second Temple era.

Warren believed that it was almost certainly built for some other purpose, and was only adapted into a cistern at a later date ; he suggested that it might have been part of a general vault supporting the northern side of the platform, in which case substantially more of the chamber exists than is used for a cistern.