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

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 Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

According to the rules of the Nobel committee a maximum of three people may share the prize.

According to mission rules, Orion would have then re-docked with Casper, in case mission control decided to abort the landing and use the Lunar Module's engines for the return trip to Earth.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.

According to Article 12, Parties are directed to adopt a protocol that establishes liability rules and procedures that are appropriate for damage that comes from the movement of hazardous waste across borders.

According to the objectivist view, the rules of Bayesian statistics can be justified by requirements of rationality and consistency and interpreted as an extension of logic.

According to Carrom rules, the powder must be of high quality to keep the surface smooth and dry, and shall not be wet.

According to Party rules, the Central Committee directed all Party and government activities between each Party Congress.

According to party rules, the Central Committee was to convene at least twice a year to discuss political matters ( but not matters relating to military policy ).

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, " As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films.

According to the traditional doctrine ( Dicey ), conventions cannot be enforced in courts, because they are non-legal sets of rules.

According to " Twenty rules for writing detective stories ," by Van Dine in 1928: " The detective story is a kind of intellectual game.

According to the formalist, mathematics is manipulation of symbols according to agreed upon formal rules.

According to the rules stipulated by the governing body of rugby league in Australia a forward pass is relative to the player making the pass and not the actual path relative to the ground.

According to the rules of Indo-European ablaut, the full grade ( containing an * e ), * gheud -, might be replaced with the zero-grade ( the * e disappears ), * ghud -, or the o-grade ( the * e changes to an * o ), * ghoud -, accounting for the various forms of the name.

According to the usual rules of quantum mechanics, the actual state of the electron may be any superposition of these states.

( According to chess rules, once a player has released a piece, he cannot make a different move.

According to the rules of IUPAC nomenclature, ketones are named by changing the suffix-ane of the parent alkane to-one.

According to these new rules, " mineral species can be grouped in a number of different ways, on the basis of chemistry, crystal structure, occurrence, association, genetic history, or resource, for example, depending on the purpose to be served by the classification.

According to ECA rules 60 % of these funds had to be invested in industry.

According to Jewish tradition, the Jewish calendar is calculated based on mathematical rules handed down from God to Moses at the moment the command was given to make sure that Passover always falls in the springtime.

According to the rules, the five-card hand's value must exceed the two-card hand's, and that is why the two-card hand is often called the hand " in front " or " on top " or " hair ", or the " small " or " minor " or " low " hand.

According to Hart, law is essentially a system of primary social rules that guide the conduct of law's subjects, and secondary rules that regulate how the primary rules may be changed, how disputes about them are to be adjudicated and, especially, how the primary rules are to be identified.