The game's development and impact on popular culture is also the subject of the book Masters of Doom by David Kushner.

Matt Lloyd is credited with inventing inline sledge hockey, and Great Britain is seen as the international leader in the game's development.

While the game's origins may lie elsewhere, Montreal is at the centre of the development of the modern sport of ice hockey.

The composer, Koji Kondo, initially planned to use Maurice Ravel's Boléro as the game's title theme, but was forced to change it when he learned, late into the game's development cycle, that the copyright for Boléro hadn't expired yet ; therefore he wrote a new arrangement of the overworld theme within one day.

It was powered by an original gameplay and physics engine that now bears the game's name, one that had been in development for over three years in founder Tim Sweeney's garage before the game was released.

So, along with the advanced software 3D renderer, Unreal was built to take advantage of the 3Dfx Glide API, which emerged as the dominant interface towards the end of the game's development.

On July 17, 2001, multiplayer lead Pat Lipo made a post on his. plan file, revealing that Rich Whitehouse had been brought onto the development team to handle development of the game's multiplayer bots.

George Hancock is credited as the game's inventor for his development of ball and an undersized bat in the next week.

Since Tim Schafer had already left the company at the time, Larry Ahern, who was involved in the original game's development, was appointed the project lead and Bill Tiller, the art director.

Ron Gilbert led the game's development and conceived its plot ( 2011 photo ).

LucasArts confirmed the game's development on June 1, 2009 ; rumors appeared several days earlier when the Xbox 360 version of the game received an USK rating.

The game's development began with the creation of the characters and camera system.

In May 1999, Super Mario 64 2 was reported to be released in late 1999 ; however, the game was canceled due to the failure of the 64DD, as well as lack of progress in the game's development.

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.

The original game's success led to the development of Phantasy Star II and eventually spawned an entire franchise.

In an interview about the development of Super Mario Sunshine with producer Takashi Tezuka and directors Yoshiaki Koizumi and Kenta Usui, it was mentioned that the game's development began with the idea of gameplay involving a water pump.

Atari was experiencing severe financial troubles at the time and could not extend the game's development period as it would have left their production factory idle.

Shigeru Miyamoto and his team were solely responsible for this game's development.

Due to the success of previous titles in the series, Nintendo was able to invest a large budget and ample development time and resources into the game's production.

The entrance to the Kingsway Tunnel is used as the basis of a tunnel entrance in the video game Grand Theft Auto III — during the 1990s, several members of the game's development team had worked for the Merseyside-based development company Psygnosis.

The 2011 action-RPG Deus Ex: Human Revolution includes among its cast a news media personality named " Eliza Cassan ", who is shown interviewing other prominent characters at various points in the game's plot.

In the game's cosmology humans can regain their lost divine status through a game concept called Awakening in which characters with an extremely high or low mental balance are no longer restrained by the rules of the Illusion.

This idea was scrapped due to difficulties in representing the story of Magus among the game's numerous other characters ; the unrelated, enigmatic magician Guile was created instead.

Super Mario Kart was the first game to feature playable characters from the Mario series other than Mario in a non-platforming game and the selection and different attributes of the characters is regarded as one of the game's strengths, IGN describing a well-balanced " all-star cast ".

Like Mario Kart DS, it includes on-line play ; it also allows racers to play as user-created Miis ( after unlocking the Mii character ) as well as Mario series characters and comes packaged with the Wii Wheel peripheral, which can act as the game's primary control mechanism when coupled with a Wii Remote.

* Red Magic Knight Rayearth and light blue Ninku Blue version, featuring the game and a small miniature of one of the game's characters.

The object of the game is for players to strategically move around the game board ( a mansion ), in the guise of one of the game's six characters, collecting clues from which to deduce which suspect murdered the game's perpetual victim, Dr. Black ( Mr. Boddy in North American versions ), and with which weapon and in what room.

It featured an overview of the game and information regarding the game's characters, weapons and Force powers.

A trailer was released on February 8, showing the game's combat, weapons, characters and environments.

" The reviewer praised the game's multiplayer mode, which he described as " an absolute blast ," as well as its lasting appeal, but also commented that the " cutesy " characters and music would be a turn-off for " a lot of people.

The player explores the game's static environments while interacting with sprite-based characters and objects ; they may use the pointer to construct and give commands with a number of predetermined verbs such as " Pick up ", " Use " and " Talk to ".

Via a point-and-click interface, the player guides protagonist Guybrush Threepwood through the game's world and interacts with the environment by selecting from twelve verb commands ( nine in newer versions ) such as " talk to " for communicating with characters and " pick up " for collecting items between commands and the world's objects in order to successfully solve puzzles and thus progress in the game.

The game's world and characters were designed primarily by Gilbert.

Near the final stages of the design work, Gilbert introduced several characters who were not directly related to the game's story.

He singled out the game's writing, characters and plot structure as its best elements.

Nick Clarkson of Amiga Computing cited the game's graphics as " flawless ", noting that " the characters are superbly animated and the backdrops simply ooze atmosphere.

" Justin Calvert of GameSpot noted that " the Special Edition looks much better and is the only way to play if you want to hear ... what characters are saying, whereas the original game's interface is less clunky.

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 ".

Several film noir movies were inspiration for much of the game's plot and characters.

Several of the game's main characters talk through a variety of elements from Shenmue including mini-games, magic weather system and free battle.

These characters also assist Mario in the game's turn-based battles, where damage inflicted against them results in temporary paralysis as the characters do not have individual HP statistics.