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 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 director, the advantage of using this technique was " the incredible amount of interaction between the background, which doesn't exist, and the foreground, which is usually your character ".

According to the newly released website, pottermore, Merlin was described with deeper biographical background.

According to this view of the character, the suburban background written into Ali G's character serves as a false alibi.

According to Marxists, even literature itself is a social institution and has a specific ideological function, based on the background and ideology of the author.

According to the US EPA, even the background level can pose a risk of cancer from 1: 10000 up to 1: 1000, about 100 times higher than normal.

By rapping in their native language, Islamic Force connected directly with Turkey as a country as well as their cultural background while simultaneously merging a global genre ( hip hop ) with a local culture ( Turkish traditions ) According to Diessel, “ The synthesis of Turkish musical idioms and language with hip hop was successful in appealing to a young audience.

According to papers in the SOHS Archives, Bretnor ’ s military background included service in the last cavalry unit in the U. S. Army.

According to Josephus it was the conquering of Saba that brought great fame to a young Egyptian Prince, simultaneously exposing his personal background as a slave child named Moses.

According to the booklets accompanying some of the DVDs of Filmation's shows, legendary composer Ray Ellis ( who was assisted by his son Marc Ellis ) had produced the background music for most Filmation series under the pseudonyms " Yvette Blais and Jeff Michael.

According to George Trevelyan, Macaulay ' instinctively desired to make Marlborough's genius stand out bright against the background of his villainy '.

According to the, Takano no Niigasa, background of the naturalized clansmen, was a 10th-generation descendant of King Muryeong of Baekje who was chosen as a concubine for Emperor Kōnin and subsequently became the mother of Emperor Kammu

According to his research, Mr. Tackett noted that the majority of the Second Estate had a military background, while the Third Estate was dominated by men of legal professions.

According to Sarah Brady, had a background check been conducted on Hinckley, it could have detected some, or all, of this important criminal and mental health history.

According to the Statistisches Bundesamt from 1992 till 2003 an average of about 40 % of all students leaving school graduated with an Abitur ( West Germany: 41 %; East Germany: 40 %; students with migration background: 18 %)

According to the Sundog Resurrection Project's SourceForge page as of August 4, 2007, work never ceased completely, but has continued with new and improved sprite / background graphics, as well as some game code ( the game is still intended to be developed in Java ), such as a functioning stock market engine.

According to the 1911 Britannica, " in his treatment of the landscape background and of the atmospheric surroundings of the figures can be found the germs of Impressionism ".

According to the Prague School, the background language isn't fixed, and the relationship between poetic and everyday language is always shifting.

According to this theory ( which the narrator neither accepts nor rejects ), the baby is brought to Germany where he is adopted into a Nazi family and becomes a member of the Hitler Youth, unaware of his true background.

According to Albert Smith, one day the crew was filming a complex series of stop-action effects on the roof while steam from the building's generator was billowing in the background.

According to Finnegan, because many had a background as prostitutes, inmates ( who were called " children ") were regarded as " in need of penitence ," and until the 1970s they were required to address all staff members as " mother " regardless of age.

According to Steven Adler's autobiography, My Appetite For Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns N ' Roses, the entire EP was recorded at Pasha Studios in Hollywood with pre-recorded audience applause and cheering in the background, as Geffen's engineers told him " it would cost too much to actually record a live record ".

According to Publishers Weekly, " Lady Redgrave writes with candor, wit, restraint and some sadness about her background, beginnings in the theater in 1932, marriage and motherhood, the trials of moving and the problems of being married to a handsome matinee idol.

According to Đức, yellow was chosen to represent Vietnam while the red background was inspired by the flag of the Communist Party and represents revolution.

According to the Big Bang model, matter decoupled from the cosmic background radiation ( CBR ) at a temperature of roughly 3, 000 kelvin, corresponding to an average kinetic energy of / () =.