Although not relevant to actual play, the name of the game's designer is often prominently mentioned on the box, or at least in the rule book.

Although the Super Bowl had grown into America's biggest one-day sporting event by this point, many believe the 13th edition began the game's evolution to unofficial national holiday.

Although little is known about the invention of Texas hold ' em, the Texas State Legislature officially recognizes Robstown, Texas, United States as the game's birthplace, dating the game to the early 1900s.

Although Adventure Gamers cited the graphic style's " refusal to take itself seriously " was adding " immensely to the game's charm ", they found the secondary characters " criminally underdeveloped " and the ending " an anticlimax, leaving the player thinking he could have done so much more, if only the game ’ s programmers had let him ".

Although the basic structure of the game generally remains constant there are often regional variations of the game's original " Terry Rules ".

Although legend attributes the game's creation to Stephen de Vignolles, also known as La Hire, a knight in the reign of Charles VII during the Hundred Years ' War, it may possibly have come into France from Spain because the words " pique " and " repique ", the main features of the game, are of Spanish origin.

Although the player can choose from five difficulty levels and numbers of lives, the game's single-player mode always follows the same series of opponents.

Although it is faster to design models and textures with general purpose multimedia creation tools, games usually require the data to be in a unique format suited for that game's engine.

Although criticized for its camera system, framerate issues, and fishing stages with Big, the game was still highly praised for retaining the fast and enjoyable gameplay that Sonic was known for in 2D as well as the game's graphics, multiple character storylines, and soundtrack.

Although his knowledge of the game's intricacies is limited, he has watched virtually every game played by the club since he was a small boy.

Although the number is not part of the game's official title, the cover does feature a subtle numeral " 7 " in the artwork ( notice where the shark's fin appears to meet the black area of the ship ).

Although it could be argued that the game's origin is Spanish ( from Parchís ) due to the similarity between both games, there is wide agreement in Colombia that the game is completely Colombian.

Although the game's localization and translation was finished a year earlier, the game was ultimately deemed unprofitable for a fall 1991 North American release, and the planned release was canceled after the game had already been translated and all packaging and advertising was ready.

Although development appeared to be proceeding smoothly, Freelance Police was abruptly canceled in early 2004, just a few weeks before the game's marketing campaign was about to begin.

Although the host was based on Jim Perry, the game's logo and gameplay were based on the CBS version of the 1980s Card Sharks series, using the single sudden-death question tiebreaker in the main game and the Joker car game following the Money Cards.

Although it is unclear from the outlines Ben Chamberlain released prior to the game's closure, this conclusion likely sees the creation of a new truce between Zion and The Machines and is the basis for the new Matrix created around the concept of human thought control.

Although figures for the game's sales on Steam have not been released, Opposing Force has sold over 1. 1 million copies at retail.

Although criticizing some elements of the game's artificial intelligence and describing some of the new models as " merely window dressing ", the review concluded that Opposing Force was an " impassioned application of creative design ".

Although praising the level design as the game's strongest point, the reviewer felt that " towards the end of the game ... they were running out of development time ".

Although the thief as an archetype in role-playing games achieved popularity through Dungeons & Dragons, “ Thief ” in the Dungeons & Dragons game was renamed to “ Rogue ” in the game's Third Edition, to broaden the class to any highly skilled character.

Although he is not a fan of computer games and did not own a personal computer at the time, he co-authored the expanded storyline and wrote much of the game's dialogue, all on a mechanical typewriter.

" Although not officially released in Europe, the game was covered in an import review by Super Play in late 1993 and although they found the game's strategy components to be " top-notch ", the rest of the game was regarded as " very mediocre ", garnering only a 47 % average score.

Although the game's name suggests it is a sequel to the previous Evangelion visual novel Girlfriend of Steel, the story is unrelated.

Although the novel takes place long after Pemulis's Eschaton days ( the game is played by 12-to 14-year-olds ), Pemulis is still regarded as the game's all-time great, and a final court of appeal in game matters.

Although his officially registered birthplace is San Pedro de Macorís, Sosa was actually born in Consuelo.

Although the Song Dynasty had lost control of the traditional birthplace of Chinese civilization along the Yellow River, the Song economy was not in ruins, as the Southern Song Empire contained 60 percent of China's population and a majority of the most productive agricultural land.

Although Gyro's shop and house are on the south side of Duckburg, he was born on the north side — a sign marks his birthplace and mentions one of his inventions — topless hats.

( Although there seems to be some confusion of Artemis ' birthplace being either Delos or the island of Ortygia.

Although some sources put his birthplace as Nashville, Tennessee, according to his father's military records he was born in Memphis, Tennessee.

Although tradition cited D. A. Thomas ' birthplace as being an old white-walled cottage in Aberdare, this is unlikely, given that the family home, Ysguborwen ( also Aberdare ), was completed in 1855.

Although several other Sufi orders overshadow the Tijāniyyah in its birthplace of North Africa, the order has become the largest Sufi order in West Africa and continues to expand rapidly.

Although he was born in Manitouwadge, Ontario, he grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which most media guides incorrectly state as his birthplace.

Although neither of these men called the city their birthplace, both Polemo of Laodicea and Aelius Aristides spent much of their time here studying the rhetoric or advocating for its people.

Although his birthplace no longer exists, a humble monument marks its location ( a tree with a rock at its base ).

Although the Southern states had been, as much as anywhere, the birthplace of rock and roll, after the decline of rockabilly in the late 1950s, despite some successful bands from the region, a major contribution to the evolution of soul music in the Stax-Volt records company and the existence of the Muscle Shoals and FAME Studios, it was not until the early 1970s that a distinctive regional style of rock music emerged.

Although described as English, his birthplace is unknown because Sacrobosco is an otherwise unknown town or region.

Although many baseball references show Davalillo ’ s birthplace as Cabimas, Venezuela, in 2006, he told a biographer that he was actually born in Churuguara, Falcón.

Although the birthplace of modern surfing is associated with the Hawaii islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean the first Peruvian settlers have tried to ride the waves for fish since ancient times.

Although France had been the birthplace of automobile racing, it now was a distant third in the racing hierarchy, behind the all-consuming German onslaught and the perennially victorious Italians.

Although he lived primarily in England and maintained a villa in France, Dunn frequently traveled to Canada to spend time at his fishing camp on the Nigadoo River not far from his birthplace.

According to crime author T. J. English, " Although never comprised of more than twelve to twenty members — depending on who was in or out of jail at any given time — the Westies became synonymous with the last generation of Irish in the birthplace of the Irish Mob ...." According to the NYPD Organized Crime Squad and the FBI, the Westies were responsible for 60-100 murders between 1968 and 1986.

Although Walker has never shown up in any publicly-released Federal Censuses, he and wife Margaret were enumerated in both the interim New York State Censuses of 1915 and 1925, where his birthplace was stated as " Italy " and occupations given for him as " janitor " and " real estate ", respectively.

Although many Kolkatans boast of the city being the birthplace of adda culture, Satyajit Ray ( in his film Agantuk ) traces back the origin of the tradition to regular intellectual dialogues prevalent in Ancient Greece at the time of Socrates or Plato.