Atari Corp .' s later XE Games System revisited the idea of a console based on the 400 / 800 hardware.

Games can be based on pure strategy, chance ( e. g. rolling dice ) or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve.

These Pythian Games rank second among the four stephanitic games chronologically and based on importance.

Living Room Games published Earthdawn ( Second Edition ), RedBrick LLC published Earthdawn ( Third Edition ), but the license has now based back to FASA Corporation and FASA Games, Inc. is the current license holder for new material.

* After the airing of the season 5 episode " Games, Flames, and Automobiles ", in which Al created a game based on Tool Time, Northern Games released The Home Improvement Board Game.

Illuminati: New World Order ( INWO ) is a collectible card game ( CCG ) that was released in 1995 by Steve Jackson Games, based on their original boxed game Illuminati, which in turn was inspired by The Illuminatus!

Jeff Minter described the controller itself as “ superb ,” while Chris Walsh of Argonaut Games stated that “ Polygon based games like Starglider 2 are going to be easy to program.

The original Lucasfilm Games logo was based upon the existing Lucasfilm movie logo.

But while Coubertin was certainly a romantic, and while his idealised vision of ancient Greece would lead him later to the idea of reviving the Olympic Games, his advocacy for physical education was based on practical concerns as well.

David C. Young, a scholar of antiquity who has studied the ancient Olympic Games, believes that Coubertin misunderstood the ancient Games and therefore based his justification for the creation of the modern Games on false grounds.

* Tsunami Games released two adventure games based on Ringworld ; Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch was released in 1992 and Return to Ringworld in 1994.

" Red November " by Fantasy Flight Games ( 2008 ) is a board game loosely based on The Hunt for Red October.

* Patriot Games ( 1981, based on a reference to Ryan's age, which is 31 at the beginning of the novel.

A video game based on the series, also titled The Vision of Escaflowne was released to the PlayStation system by Bandai Games in 1997.

* Star Fleet Battles-( Task Force Games, 1978 ) one of the older still actively played and published wargames today ; based on Star Trek, it is arguably the most successful tactical space combat system that does not rely on miniatures ( published by Amarillo Design Bureau ).

In July 2008, developer Telltale Games announced a new series of episodic video games based on the characters, called Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures.

At the time of its liquidation, Westwood employed a third of the original Westwood Studios personnel, some of which formed Petroglyph Games in April 2003, along with three of them ( Brett Sperry, Adam Isgreen and Rade Stojsavljevic ) forming Jet Set Games development studio in 2008, both based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

2000AD video games for 8-bit computers include games based on Strontium Dog by Quicksilva for the ZX Spectrum in 1984, Nemesis the Warlock and Sláine bu Martech in 1987, Rogue Trooper written by Design Design / published by Piranha in 1986 and Judge Dredd by Virgin Games in 1990, all released for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum platforms.

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.

A board game based on the concept was released by Endless Games.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares (" Apollonian Games ") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius.

Sacrifices and prayers on the Palatine to Apollo and Diana formed the culmination of the Secular Games, held in 17 BCE to celebrate the dawn of a new era.

The singles " I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You ", " Games People Play ", " Damned If I Do ", " Time " ( Woolfson's first lead vocal ), " Eye in the Sky " and " Don't Answer Me " had a notable impact on the Billboard Hot 100.

He used his time in Bourg to research mathematics, producing Considérations sur la théorie mathématique de jeu ( 1802 ; “ Considerations on the Mathematical Theory of Games ”), a treatise on mathematical probability that he sent to the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1803.

* 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.

Published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, the game centered on intelligent rabbits.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

( model 6065, 1977 ): Four variations on Kee Games ' Tank, four fixed joysticks ( two per player ), uses a General Instruments AY-3-8700 Tank chip.

# Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Fun and Games ( Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no.

The game's music was represented in the classic games medley on the Video Games Live concert tour.

It was rated the 150th best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Power's Top 200 Games list.

IGN also placed the game at number 77 on its " Top 100 NES Games of All Time " feature.

The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11 ; then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.

At Gen Con 2012, FASA Games, Inc. was revealed, which includes FASA Corporation co-founder Ross Babcock on the Board of Directors.

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

Daniele Hypólito on the Balance Beam at the 2007 Pan American Games

His book about games of chance, Liber de ludo aleae (" Book on Games of Chance "), written in 1526, but not published until 1663, contains the first systematic treatment of probability, as well as a section on effective cheating methods.

Over the next 10 years his coverage included race riots, anti-Vietnam War protests, Olympic Games and presidential elections for news and current affairs television and radio, from Four Corners and This Day Tonight to science and religion programs.

Coubertin's assertion that the Games were the impetus for peace was also an exaggeration ; the peace which he spoke of only existed to allow athletes to travel safely to Olympia, and neither prevented the outbreak of wars nor ended ongoing ones.

Since no athletes ' village existed from the previous Games, the athletes and officials were housed in hotels around the city.

In The Player of Games, the Culture is described as having existed as a space-faring society for eleven thousand years.

For instance while the Dark Elves have long existed as the main antagonist to the High Elves in Warhammer Fantasy, Games Workshop originally incorporated both High and Dark Elves ' elements into the Craftworld Eldar for the Warhammer 40, 000 universe.

After an outcry among fans of Ereb ensued, Target Games decided that Ereb and Chronopia both existed on Altor but on different hemispheres.

Namco America existed mainly to license Namco's games to companies such as Atari and Midway Games for distribution in the U. S.

Until 2009, Midway Games West still existed as a holding entity whose primary function was to be the copyright and trademark owner for its franchises.

Antigonish Highland Games St. Francis Xavier University was established in Antigonish in 1855, having been founded in 1853 in Arichat, Cape Breton and originally called the College of East Bay after East Bay, Nova Scotia where an earlier institution had once existed ( 1824 – 1829 ).

For the next 20 years, they would only play Réunion and Madagascar ( probably due to the close proximity of the three islands to each other ) in friendlies and the Indian Ocean Games Triangulaire, which existed from 1947-1963.

Some of the Parlor Games that existed were Y. A. R. N ( story making ) Reversi, Poker, Checkers, Chess, and Backgammon.

Mirco Games was a pinball and arcade game manufacturer from Phoenix, Arizona that existed from 1969 to 1978.