Also, an oversight in the small saucer's programming gave rise to a popular strategy known as " lurking " — because the saucer could only shoot directly at the player's position on the screen, the player could " hide " at the opposite end of the screen and shoot across the screen boundary, while remaining relatively safe.

Another popular method of exploiting this bug was to simply use thrust to keep the ship in motion with 1 or 2 asteroids in the play field, allowing the player to pick off as many 1, 000 point UFOs as possible.

The most popular player in franchise history, " Gonzo " signed a one-year contract worth just under $ 7 million on December 7 to play for the rival Los Angeles Dodgers for the 2007 season.

A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

In the " hop across ", the most popular variation, each player puts his / her own colored pieces on one of the six points or corners of the star and attempts to race them all " home " to the opposite corner.

More specifically, a modern kit ( for a right handed player ), as used in popular music, taught in many music schools, and for which qualifications are available from Trinity College London consists of:

Cukor obtained a job as an assistant stage manager and bit player with a touring production of The Better ' Ole, a popular British musical based on Old Bill, a cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather.

In 1990, he won the BV Popprijs, one of the highest Dutch awards for popular music, and recorded Freeze with Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band and Tejano accordion player Flaco Jiménez.

A very popular type of system for reproducing music from the 1970s onwards was the integrated music centre which combined phonograph, radio tuner, tape player, preamp and power amplifier in one package, often sold with its own separate, detachable or integrated speakers.

* To get a game started faster, some house rules allow a player with no pieces on the board to bring their first piece into play on any roll, on a 1 or a 6, or allow multiple tries to roll a 6 ( with three rolls being the most popular ).

The most popular stud variant today, seven-card stud, deals two extra cards to each player ( three face-down, four face-up ) from which they must make the best possible 5-card hand.

In April 1985, Nike introduced its own brand of basketball shoe which would become popular in its own right, the Air Jordan, named after the then-rookie Chicago Bulls basketball player, Michael Jordan.

As an example, on the Wheel of Fortune reel machine ( based on the popular Wheel of Fortune TV game show created by Merv Griffin ), the player must play 3 coins per spin to be eligible to trigger the bonus round and possibly win the jackpot.

* There is a variation on tic-tac-toe that is popular in Vietnam, in which the player has to get 5 in a row to win the game.

One popular program for converting Spectrum files from tape is Taper ; it allows connecting a cassette tape player to the line in port of a sound card, or — through a simple home-built device — to the parallel port of a PC.

Hokkaido Karuta has become a popular version of karuta all over Japan because it allows the player ( s ) to play and learn without the presence of a reader.

A particularly popular variant in informal play is blitz chess, in which each player is given five minutes on the clock for the entire game.

To raise money for the Lorraine project, Amiga Corp. designed and sold joysticks and game cartridges for popular game consoles such as the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision, as well as an odd input device called the Joyboard, essentially a joystick the player stood on.

Đoković, in particular, is very popular and is currently the World No. 2 tennis player in the ATP Rankings, a former World No. 1 and a five-time Grand Slam champion.

Each player who agreed with the most popular answer to a question earned the team $ 50, for a possible total of $ 450.

Throughout his major league baseball career, Griffey was a popular player and a fan favorite around the league.

Once a popular open-source Linux audio player, it has now been largely surpassed by newcomers such as Audacious, Amarok, Exaile, Banshee and ( more recently ) Songbird.

He later became a popular featured player in Hollywood crime films and mysteries ( in particular with Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet ), and, though frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner,

Another popular variant is " Roll your own ," in which four rounds of two cards each are dealt down, and each player must " roll " one card to face up, followed by a round of betting.

In 1952, it will be remembered, the G.O.P. without positive program campaigned on the popular disillusionment with liberal leadership and won overwhelmingly.

Published in 1923, it did not gain the popular acclaim of the Garibaldi volumes, probably because Trevelyan felt less at home with Manin, the bourgeois lawyer, than with Garibaldi, the filibuster.

Out of Saxony rode the Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, one of the Czarina's cousins and a lieutenant general in her armies, a frank, sensitive, popular soldier whose kindnesses Littlepage would `` always recall with the sincerest gratitude ''.

He was especially popular with women, for, like the romantic poetry he wrote, he was personally gracious, gallant, and chivalrous.

At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.

This has been his first encounter with mankind, and, although he has now become a legendary figure in the popular European press, it leaves him profoundly dissatisfied.

In the middle of the century, with a circulation of 90,000, the Post was one of the most popular weeklies in the country.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

in fact, with having been against all the more popular features of the Khrushchev `` welfare state ''.

A salad with greens and tomato is a popular and wonderfully healthful addition to a meal, but add an avocado and you have something really special.

it's a short, light, quick-handling, fast-firing little timber gun designed to push a heavy slug at modest velocity but with lots of killing power and ample range for our most popular big game -- whitetail.

Contrary to popular opinion, `` a la mode '' doesn't mean `` with ice cream '' -- it just means, in the latest style.

The data is now interpreted in conjunction with a price chart, usually of a popular stock average.

When, therefore, it turned its attention to the concrete entities with which popular imagination had peopled the world of spirit, these entities soon lost whatever status they had enjoyed as actual elements of external reality.

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.

In the supernatural atmosphere of cosmic government, only the ruling elite was ever concerned with a kingdom-wide ordering of nature: popular religion aimed at more personal benefits from magical powers.

But actually these accounts reveal the supernatural powers that the masters were in fact supposed to possess, as well as the extreme degree of popular credulity: `` Hwang Pah ( O Baku ), one day going up Mount Tien Tai which was believed to have been inhabited by Arhats with supernatural powers, met with a monk whose eyes emitted strange light.

But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company.

Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

Delegates from 11 slave states walked out of the Democratic convention, disagreeing with Douglas's position on popular sovereignty, and ultimately selected John C. Breckinridge as their candidate.

He said " A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.