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 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 back-story, The Kingdom of Ehb is a border kingdom in the continent of Aranna, next to the Plain of Tears.

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 Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BCE, is the " world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare.

According to Lycophron's Alexandra ( 808 ) and John Tzetzes ' scholia on the poem ( 795-808 ), however, Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to life after he had been killed by Telegonus.

The date of the introduction of crossbows, however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

The introduction of crossbows however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to " the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a divine hero and a dragon.

According to Plato, her mother decided she should cut back on her skating to focus on the role.

' According to the Evil Dead DVD commentary, he would often return home after a night of shooting in the back of a pick-up truck, as he was usually covered in fake blood made from a mixture of corn syrup, food coloring, and non-dairy coffee creamer.

According to some ahadith, he will come back to earth in the future and declare to the world that he is " a Servant of God ".

According to Oswald Spengler, the characteristic mistake of the Gracchan age was to believe in the possibility of the reversibility of history – a form of idealism which according to Spengler was at that time shared by both sides of political spectrum – Cato had sought to turn back the clock to the time of Cincinnatus, and restore virtue by returning to austerity.

According to Martin Noth, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, the narratives of Isaac date back to an older cultural stage than that of the West-Jordanian Jacob.

According to the American federal government statistics compiled by Mark Zandi, currently of " Moody's Economy. com ", back in 1985, the average inheritance was $ 39, 000.

According to the Book of Jeremiah, Moab and Biblical Elam which were exiled during the Babylonian Exile, will be brought back from their captivity in the end of days.

According to tradition Jonah was the boy brought back to life by Elijah the prophet, and hence shares many of his characteristics ( particularly his desire for ' strict judgment ').

According to recent historical findings, Kyrgyz history dates back to 201 BC.

According to People magazine reporter Jane Simms Podesta, " She is the steel in his back.

According to his wife Libby, his assignment was to infiltrate the anti-Communist John Birch Society and report his findings back to the FBI.

According to scholarly consensus, the earliest example of an administrative meritocracy, based on civil service examinations, dates back to Ancient China.

According to Islamic tradition, the history of Mecca goes back to Abraham ( Ibrahim ) who built the Kaaba with the help of his elder son Ishmael in around 2000 BCE when the inhabitants of what was then known as Bakkah had fallen away from the original monotheism of Abraham through the influence of the Amelkites.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BC, is the " world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare.

According to the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the entire area has thousands of river names that can be traced back to an original Baltic language, even though they have undergone Slavicization.

:" According to physicalism, the language of physics is the universal language of science and, consequently, any knowledge can be brought back to the statements on the physical objects.

According to the tale, Callixtus jumped overboard to avoid capture but was rescued and taken back to his master.

According to the website of the Archives, the oldest surviving document dates back to the end of the eighth century.