* Colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III ( 1350 BC )

* Colossal head from a statue of Amenhotep III ( 1350 BC )

Colossal statue of the pharaoh Ramesses II

Colossal statue of a man from the north side of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

Image: Menkaura-ColossalStatue MuseumOfFineArtsBoston. png | Colossal alabaster statue of Menkaura at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

* Colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III

* Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III

* Colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III

Gifts and purchases from Henry Salt, British Consul General in Egypt, beginning with the Colossal bust of Ramesses II in 1818, laid the foundations of the collection of Egyptian Monumental Sculpture.

Modern usage derives primarily from one of the earliest computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms, collecting the treasures found there.

Zork was one of the earliest interactive fiction computer games, with roots drawn from the original genre game, Colossal Cave Adventure.

The ranks of the Legion, only hinted at in those first two stories, were filled with new heroes, such as Chameleon Boy, Invisible Kid, Colossal Boy, Star Boy, Brainiac 5, Triplicate Girl, Shrinking Violet, Sun Boy, Bouncing Boy, Phantom Girl, and Ultra Boy.

Most characters resemble their previous counterparts in costume and powers, with the most notable exceptions including Chameleon Boy, now called simply Chameleon and depicted as an androgynous creature, Star Boy, who in this version of the Legion is black, Colossal Boy, who is now a giant who shrinks to human size, and Phantom Girl, who exists in two universes at once and has conversations with people in her own dimension while talking to Legionnaires at the same time.

Virtual worlds date back to the adventure games and simulations of the 1970s, for example Colossal Cave Adventure, a text-only simulation in which the user communicated with the computer by typing commands at the keyboard.

In Asterix at the Olympic Games ( published to coincide with the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City ), René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo depict a ' Colossal ' Olympic player from Rhodes, whose family are all extremely tall.

In the Legion of Super-Heroes comics, Colossal Boy fell in love with a shapeshifter who had been duped into taking the form of a woman he had been attracted to.

This phenomenon was addressed in The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide with illustrations comparing Crow to a Necker cube.

Distributed by American International Pictures ( AIP ) at the top of a program double-bill with The Cat Girl, the film was followed by a sequel, War of the Colossal Beast, which appeared in 1958.

After encountering the original Adventure game ( also called Colossal Cave ), he was fascinated by the concept and — together with Marc Blank, Tim Anderson and Bruce Daniels — set out to write an adventure game with a better parser, which became Zork.

The history of the action-adventure genre began with the text-based Colossal Cave Adventure ( 1976 ), which was the first adventure game ever created.

Zork < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > predecessor, Colossal Cave Adventure, used bottomless pits to achieve the same result, but when early versions of Zork adopted this practice, it was realized that pits were appearing in unlikely places, such as the attic of a house, and with no corroborating evidence elsewhere ( such as holes in the ceiling or floor in the room directly below ).

MSTies wear the label as a badge of pride, and it gained Best Brains ' seal of approval with the 1996 publication of the Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Amazing Colossal Episode Guide.

The first game to use this system was Colossal Adventure, a faithful conversion of Adventure by Will Crowther and Don Woods, yet with 70 extra locations to the end game.

" Scientific American, July 1980 ; reprinted with appendix in The Colossal Book of Mathematics ( New York: Norton ).

Demolition next feuded with the new Heenan Family team, the Colossal Connection ( André the Giant and Haku ).

At WrestleMania VI, Demolition defeated the Colossal Connection to regain the titles and win their third and final WWF Tag Team Championship, and finally put an end to their feud with the Heenan Family.

Dozer released their 5th album, Beyond Colossal in late 2008 and followed it up with a short European tour.

While the S. S. Colossal in the film appears to be similar to the 1935 steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship S. S. Normandie with its classic Art Deco French Line-styled exterior, the S. S.

Why his teammate Colossal Boy ( who could also increase his mass and size ) could make do with a single flight ring, but Blok could not, was never explained.

Norden published some test-drawings from his voyage in 1741, under the long name " Drawings of Some Ruins and Colossal Statues at Thebes in Egypt, with an account of the same in a Letter to the Royal Society ".

* Colossal bust of Ramesses II, the " Younger Memnon " ( 1250 BC )

Many versions of Colossal Cave have been released, generally titled simply Adventure, or adding a tag of some sort to the original name ( e. g. Adventure II, Adventure 550, Adventure4 +, ...).

Colossal depictions of Ramesses II at a temple dedicated to him at Abu Simbel.

File: BM, AES Egyptian Sulpture ~ Colossal bust of Ramesses II, the ' Younger Memnon ' ( 1250 BC ) ( Room 4 ). jpg | The Younger Memnon c. 1250 BC, British Museum

Rummaging through a catalogue, he found a program called Colossal Cave Adventure.

Having finished Colossal Cave Adventure, they began to search for something similar, but found the market underdeveloped.

Inspired by Colossal Cave, Marc Blank and Dave Lebling created what was to become the first Infocom game, Zork, in 1977 at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

Colossal foundations of a temple dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian are still visible: the columns were 21. 35 metres high ( about 70 feet ), while the highest known elsewhere, those at Baalbek in Syria are only 19. 35 metres ( about 63 feet ).

These monuments, including Colossal Head 1, were of such a large size and were placed in such a position that they could convey their messages to many viewers at once.

While he was working on it, he had discovered and played Crowther and Woods ' Colossal Cave Adventure at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and decided that a graphical video game version " would be really cool ".

For instance, in 1824, Franz von Paula Gruithuisen, professor of Astronomy at Munich University, had published a paper titled " Discovery of Many Distinct Traces of Lunar Inhabitants, Especially of One of Their Colossal Buildings ".

According to The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide, Dr. Forrester discovered Frank working at a nearby Arby's.

In the spirit of an earlier editor, named " Colossal Typewriter ", it was called " Expensive Typewriter " because at the time the PDP-1 cost a lot of money ( approximately 100, 000 USD ).

In the Legion's original continuity, Colossal Boy was training on Mars when he gained his power ; in the post-Zero Hour continuity, Saturn Girl met Legion co-founders Garth Ranzz and Rokk Krinn while traveling from Titan to Earth to begin training at the Science Police headquarters in Metropolis.

According to Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide on page 97, the cast had heard a rumor that actor Joe Don Baker was very angry at the MST3K treatment of Mitchell, and threatened physical violence on any of the cast or crew should he ever meet them in person.

Colossal Cavern is a cave in Kentucky, USA, the main entrance of which is at the foot of a steep hill beyond Eaton Valley, and 14 miles from Mammoth Cave.

Colossal Youth, directed by Pedro Costa, was in competition for the Palme d ' Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

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