According to the book A Beautiful Mind, John Nash ( one of the game's inventors ) advocated 14 × 14 as the optimal size.

According to producer Hiroshi Iuchi, the main inspiration for the game's design was Image Fight, an arcade game by Irem from 1988.

According to GameRankings, the game's average review score was 73 %.

According to STI director Roger Hector, Michael Jackson was initially brought in during development to compose music for the game, even though no mention of his involvement was included in any of the game's credits.

According to the game's back story, the " Source " of all life deep inside the planet created the first forms of life, who called themselves the Xan.

According to the game's manual, it took a liking to the place and took up residence.

According to the game's background, the Tremere are one of the youngest vampire clans, having just come into existence during the Dark Ages.

According to series creator Ron Gilbert, Schafer and fellow writer-programmer Dave Grossman were responsible for about two thirds of the game's dialogue.

According to the game's backstory, the Union Aerospace Corporation ( UAC ) has grown to become the largest corporate entity in existence, and has set up a research facility on Mars.

According to translator Ted Woolsey, a large portion of the game's script was cut out in the English localization due to space limitations and a lack of sequential text.

According to Tiller, however, Payback eventually fell apart because of disagreements over the game's style between the development team and " a particularly influential person " within the management division.

According to the game's fictional history, archeologists found an entrance to a vast underground cavern in the 1980s near a volcano in New Mexico.

According to the game's fiction many historical figures were secretly Templars, manipulating history and those around them in a quest for power.

According to Williams, " the first item on the agenda was coming through the game's twenty year collection of monsters, and deciding which ones were going into the book ...

According to the game's designer, Yu Suzuki, the stages of OutRun are mostly based on European scenery ; he had toured Europe in order to gain insight on how to design the game's levels and capture as much realism as possible.

According to a commentary by the game's planner, Muneki Ebinuma, the game was planned to feature more elaborate stage designs than the ones in the finished version of the game.

According to the game's rules, the two prime directives for Toon players to follow are " Forget Everything You Know " and " Act Before You Think ".

According to Heiner Gillmeister, a European language expert of Bonn University, " cricket " derives from the Middle Dutch met de ( krik ket ) sen ( i. e., " with the stick chase "), which also suggests a Dutch connection in the game's origin.

According to the game's storyline, the Netherworld, the world of the dead is a realm that can only be accessed from one place in the world, the sea-side village of Doolin.

According to Nite, the game's writing style owes itself to a humorous email exchange between himself and Johnson that began when the two separated after high school.

According to the game's website, " Talislanta is released to the world, for free, under the Creative Common license.

According to the game's instruction manual, the player controls the biblical figure Moses as he leads the Israelites to the promised land, meaning he goes through a labyrinth.

According to the Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nintendo provided half of the game's ¥ 500 million budget.

According to the character's back-story, Bender was built in Mexico, with the other characters making reference to his " swarthy Latin charm " throughout the overall narrative.

According to the Snork back-story, which was described in the show's first opening theme, a few ventured to the surface ( which the Snorks believe is " outer space ") in 1643, and watched a Royal Navy ship being attacked by pirates.

According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

: According to the BIS, " The choice of Switzerland for the seat of the BIS was a compromise by those countries that established the BIS: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

According to the Bible, " God raised him from the dead ", he ascended to heaven, is " seated at the right hand of the Father " and will ultimately return to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment and final establishment of the Kingdom of God.

According to Nihonshoki, the king of the Korean Silla Kingdom grieved very much when Ingyō died.

According to Jordanes's Getica, the Goths entered Oium, part of Scythia, under their 5th king, Filimer, where they subdued the Spali ( Sarmatians ), conquered the Kingdom of the Bosporus and captured several cities on the Euxinean coast, including Olbia and Tyras.

According to the Hebrew Testament, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon's Assyrians in c 720 BC and was king of Judah during the invasion and siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BC.

According to constitutional convention United Kingdom legislation may be extended to Jersey by Order in Council at the request of the Island's government.

According to Ellenblum's interpretation the inhabitants of the Kingdom ( Latin Christians living alongside native Greek and Syrian Christians, Shia and Sunni Arabs, Sufis, Bedouin, Turks, Druze, Jews, and Samaritans ) all had major differences between each other as well as with the crusaders.

According to the parable illustrates the great value of the Kingdom of Heaven.

According to tradition, Pietro Angelerio was born to parents Angelo Angelerio and Maria Leone in a town called Sant ' Angelo Limosano, in the Kingdom of Sicilia ( Sicily ).

According to the 1411 First Peace of Thorn which followed the Teutonic Knights ' defeat in the Battle of Grunwald, the Teutonic Order had to pay high reparations to the Kingdom of Poland.

According to Dusted Magazine, Sakamoto's use of squelching bounce sounds and mechanical beats was later incorporated in early electro and hip hop music productions such as “ Message II ( Survival )” ( 1982 ) by Melle Mel and Duke Bootee, “ Magic ’ s Wand ” ( 1982 ) by Whodini and Thomas Dolby, Twilight 22 ’ s “ Electric Kingdom ” ( 1983 ), and Kurt Mantronik's Mantronix: The Album ( 1985 ).

' " According to the Bible, " God raised him from the dead ," he ascended to heaven, to the " right hand of God ", and will return again to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment and establishment of the Kingdom of God ; see also Messianism and Messianic Age.

According to the text of the Books of Samuel, he also anointed the first two kings of the Kingdom of Israel: Saul and David.

According to the Constitution of the Kingdom, serving in the Armed Forces is a duty of all Thai citizens.

According to the 2011 census, the total population of the United Kingdom is around 63, 100, 000 — the third-largest in the European Union ( behind Germany and metropolitan France ) and the 22nd-largest in the world.

According to the uncodified constitution of the United Kingdom, the monarch has the following powers:

According to the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki, a Korean scholar called Wani () was dispatched to Japan by the Kingdom of Baekje during the reign of Emperor Ōjin in the early 5th century, bringing with him knowledge of Confucianism and Chinese characters.

According to some historians, Granada was a tributary state to the Kingdom of Castile since that year.

According to Thompson, at this time the biggest enemy the United States had was King George V of the United Kingdom.

According to the historian Yaqut al-Hamawi, the Böszörmény, ( Izmaleita or Ismaili / Nizari ) denomination of the Muslims who lived in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 10 – 13th centuries, were employed as mercenaries by the kings of Hungary.

According to chief judge Richard May from the United Kingdom, the ICTY issued an indictment against Arkan on 30 September 1997 for war crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva convention of 1949 for customs and traditions of war.

According to OECD, " these systems are used in Italy ( with some fees ), in all four countries of the United Kingdom ( with some fees and allowances for specific services ), Austria ( with fees for specific services ), Denmark ( one third of income with remainder fee for service ), Ireland ( since 1989 ), the Netherlands ( fee-for-service for privately insured patients and public employees ) and Sweden ( from 1994 ).

According to figures given to the magazine Kit Car ( The UK's Top Selling Kit Car Magazine ) the most popular kit in the United Kingdom in 2005 was made by Robin Hood Sportscars who sell 700 kits a year.

According to, while David was encamped with the Philistine army for an attack on the Kingdom of Israel, Ziklag was raided by Amalekites ; the Amalekites burning the town, and capturing its population without killing them ( scholars think this capture refers to enslavement ).