* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

* 2010 – The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.

The NLCS and ALCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: games 1, 2, 6 and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4 and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

The ALCS and NLCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4, and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

* When Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark arrive at the Capitol in the 2012 film The Hunger Games, a pair of pink borzoi are shown on screen — an illustration of the Capitol residents ' gaudy lifestyle.

Games available in most casinos are commonly called casino games.

While there are self-contained departments for the creation of arcade, pachinko and pachislo, online, and mobile games, the Consumer Games R & D Division instead is an amalgamation of subsections in charge of various game development stages.

Games between experts are rarely decided by more than a couple of moves.

While it is possible to create a controlled sporting event such as X Games, there are environmental variables that cannot be held constant for all athletes.

* 1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Games here are played on trees ( as pictured to the left ).

The largest events in the sport are the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup and Grand-Prix Tournaments.

Throughout the world, there at three FIG levels: Age group ( Age 11-16 ), Junior ( 12-19 ) and Senior ( 15 +), which are used in the World Championships and many other events around the world, including European Championships and World Games.

Games that are designed specifically for the Game Boy Color are housed in clear-colored cartridges, and will not function in an earlier Game Boy or the Super Game Boy ( or will simply display a warning message and refuse to play ).

Games that are designed for the Game Boy Color, but which also include backwards-compatibility with the previous Game Boy systems, have a similar design to the original grey Game Boy cartridges, but are colored black for identification.

Some products supplied by manufacturers may not be intended to be awarded at all, and are instead just used as part of the gameplay ( such as the low-priced items used in several Pricing Games of The Price Is Right ).

The boycotting countries organized their own ' Friendship Games ' in the summer of 1984.

* World Games, international tournament attended by national teams ; organized by the WFDF.

The Athens Games, in 2004, were also a strong symbol, for modern Olympic Games were inspired by the competitions organized in Ancient Greece.

Formal international competition in deaf sport began with the 1924 Paris Silent Games, organized by the Comité International des Sports des Sourds, CISS ( The International Committee of Sports for the Deaf ).

In 1948, while the Olympic Games were being held in London, he organized a sports competition for wheelchair athletes at Stoke Mandeville.

The 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2002 Paralympic Games were both organized by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee ( SLOC ).

In superhero role-playing games, such as Hero Games ' Champions, Green Ronin Publishing's Mutants and Masterminds, Cryptic Studios ' MMORPG City of Heroes and Champions Online, superheroes are formally organized into categories or archetypes based on their skills and abilities.

The first organized international competitions for athletes with a physical disability ( not deaf ) began in 1952, when the first international Stoke Mandeville Games were organized for World War II veterans.

Originally called Semaine Internationale des Sports d ' Hiver (" International Winter Sports Week ") and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions held at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France between January 25 and February 5, 1924, organized by the French Olympic Committee, were in retrospect designated by the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) as the I Olympic Winter Games.

After it was alleged that he organized what is known as the Munich Massacre during the 1972 Olympic Games, he was hunted by the Israeli Mossad during Operation Wrath of God.

The first Intercalated Games had been scheduled by the IOC in 1901 as part of a new schedule, where every four years, in between the internationally organized games, there would be intermediate games held in Athens.

The Games were originally held in 1948 by neurologist Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who organized a sporting competition involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital rehabilitation facility in Stoke Mandeville, England, taking place concurrently with the first post-war Summer Olympics in London.

While the Paralympic Games evolved to include athletes from all disability groups, the Stoke Mandeville games continued to be organized as a multi-sport event for wheelchair athletes.

In 2003, the Games were again held in Christchurch, and combined with a competition for amputee athletes organized by the International Sports Organization for the Disabled.

Both the Olympic and Paralympic Games were being organized by the Vancouver Organizing Committee ( VANOC ), headed by John Furlong.

The Gay Games is the world's largest sporting and cultural event organized by and specifically for LGBT athletes, artists, musicians, and others.

He was the instrumental force behind ' Brain Games ', which organized the World Championship match in 2000 between Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik.

The first recorded examples of organized track and field events at a sports festival are the Ancient Olympic Games.

In what is known as the Antwerp Ceremony, the mayor of the city that organized the Games transfers a special Pan American Games flag to the president of PASO, who then passes it on to the mayor of the city hosting the next Pan American Games.

He replaced Peter Ueberroth, the president of the committee that organized the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, contested in 1984 in Los Angeles, California.

The 1994 Winter Games were the first Paralympic Games organized by the International Paralympic Committee ( IPC ).

It has carried the tagline " Games Workshop's monthly gaming supplement & Citadel miniatures catalogue " for a long period.

To date Games Workshop have produced no Eldar scenery kits, although brief descriptions have been given on how to build Eldar architecture and objectives in both the main Warhammer 40, 000 rules books and in GW's monthly magazine White Dwarf.

* Fanatic Online-This is a free monthly online magazine once published by Games Workshop's Specialist Games.

* Inside the Sausage Factory # 1-# 21 monthly column in the Computer Games Magazine about the Tropico development by Phil Steinmeyer ( archived, 1999 )

* Games Magazine, a monthly publication featuring game-and puzzle-related material, through the 1980s carried a fake ad feature noted ( without page number ) in each issue's contents with the tagline " Which of the pitches is full of hitches?

Games Players was a groundbreaking publication for its time-it was the very first independent monthly video game magazine of the 8-bit generation, it was not affiliated with a first party publisher ( such as Nintendo or Sega ), and in addition, it was the very first video game magazine to feature a CG cover.

GMR was a monthly magazine on video games that was published by Ziff-Davis — the publisher of such magazines as PC Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly, and Computer Gaming World ( later Games for Windows: The Official Magazine ).

These aspects of the hobby are covered in Games Workshop's monthly White Dwarf and on various gaming websites, as well as formerly in the fortnightly Battle Games in Middle-earth.

The Redeemer is a special, 4-issue comic mini-series published by Warhammer Monthly, Games Workshop's monthly comic collection.

In late 2003, Wood quit his staff job at Rockstar Games and teamed with artist Becky Cloonan to create the monthly series Demo.

For a period of time, Croteam posted weekly updates, but these became bi-monthly, then monthly, and then stopped completely after August 2004, as 2K Games, Croteam's publisher, wanted to handle the release of information from that point forward.