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 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 Barks, this period of his life would later influence his best known fictional characters: Walt Disney's Donald Duck and his own Scrooge McDuck.

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Maquis were formed in the 24th Century after a peace treaty was enacted between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union, redesignating the demilitarized zone between the two powers, which resulted in the Federation ceding several of their colony worlds to the Cardassians.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's fictional Historia Regum Britanniae ( ca.

According to the essay The Istari from the Unfinished Tales, the name Radagast means " tender of beasts " in Adûnaic, another of Tolkien's fictional languages.

According to the novels, Darkover is the only human-habitable of seven planets orbiting a fictional red giant star called Cottman.

According to traditional continuity, both cities are located in the fictional U. S. state of Calisota, a portmanteau of California and Minnesota.

According to Don Rosa, Rockerduck has several differences from both his fictional rival and his historical namesake.

According to the fictional universe first established by Slayer, the ' Buffyverse ,' Angel was born in 18th century Ireland ; after being turned into a soulless, immortal vampire, he became legendary for his evil acts, until a band of wronged Gypsies punished him by restoring his soul, overwhelming him with guilt.

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Bajorans are an ancient species who developed advanced technology prior to the evolution of humanity on Earth.

According to the Multiverse Theory, the idea of a parallel universe may not be fictional, but reality that exists on another vibrational plane.

According to School of Visual Arts caricature instructor Sam Viviano, the term refers only to depictions of real-life people, and not to cartoon fabrications of fictional characters, which do not possess objective sets of physiognomic features to draw upon for reference, or to anthropomorphic depictions of inanimate objects such as automobiles or coffee mugs.

According to Fred, his son was named for Lamont Lomax, a ( presumably fictional ) pitcher from the Homestead Grays.

According to Cline's pre-show speech, he wanted to hold a special screening with fans in his home state, since he grew up in nearby Ashland, Ohio, and the story was set in a fictional town similar to Ashland.

According to show episodes, the community of Mayberry was named for fictional founder Lord Mayberry.

According to the fictional history of Exalted, before the time of the Exalted, the Dragon Kings ruled Creation and the mortals who dwelt there, but the majority of their perpetually-reincarnating souls were annihilated during the war against the Primordials, putting an end to their ascendance over Creation.

According to a Sunday Herald article in March 2006, Stewart was the basis for a fictional detective:

According to Emir Rodríguez Monegal in his April 1968 article " Nota sobre Biorges ", when Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges collaborated under the pseudonyms H. Bustos Domecq or B. Suárez Lynch, the results seemed written by a new personality, more than the sum of its parts, which he dubbed " Biorges " and considered in his own right as " one of the most important Argentine prose writers of his time ", for having influenced writers such as Leopoldo Marechal ( an otherwise anti-Borgesian ), or Julio Cortázar's use of fictional language and slang in his masterpiece Hopscotch .< ref

According to Helen Batchelor, following the breakthrough success of Main Street, Lewis conceived an ambitious plan for a series of interrelated novels that required a common fictional locale.

According to BusinessWeek, the Beast is listed as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics.

According to Unfinished Tales, Dol Guldur was originally known in Tolkien's fictional language of Sindarin as Amon Lanc (" naked hill ", from amon " hill " and lanc " bare " or " naked ").

According to Asimov's fictional history of robotics, Susan Calvin was born in 1982, the same year that US Robots and Mechanical Men was incorporated.

According to the supplementary materials for some of the games, the fictional martial art style of Billy and Jimmy is named, a nod to Bruce Lee's fighting method of Jeet Kune Do, also known as the " Way of the Intercepting Fist ".

According to the fictional Macross continuity, the fighter was developed with overtechnology obtained from the massive alien space ship that crashed on Earth in the year 1999.

According to Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Potemkin's most comprehensive English-language biographer, the tale of elaborate, fake settlements with glowing fires designed to comfort the monarch and her entourage as they surveyed the barren territory at night, is largely fictional.