* 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 ).

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 ).

Elfenland is a German-style board game designed by Alan R. Moon and published by Amigo Spiele in German and Rio Grande Games in English in 1998.

Java is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 2000 by Ravensburger in German and by Rio Grande Games in English.

Kult is a contemporary fantasy horror role-playing game originally designed by Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén, first published in Sweden by Target Games in 1991.

Risus: The Anything RPG is a rules-light generic role-playing game ( RPG ) written, designed and illustrated by S. John Ross of Cumberland Games and Diversions.

Originally designed by James Ernest and published by Cheapass Games.

In May 2000, Vangelis composed the music as well as designed and directed the artistic Olympic flag relay portion of the closing ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

Kill Doctor Lucky is a humorous board game designed by James Ernest and released in 1996 by Cheapass Games.

Games designed for older graphical chipsets — such as those of the third and fourth generations of video game consoles, those of dedicated TV games, or those of similar handheld systems — take advantage of the raster characteristics to create the illusion of more layers.

* The Summer Olympic Games medal from 1928 to 2000, designed by Giuseppe Cassioli, features a depiction of the Colosseum.

Car Wars: The Card Game was released in 1991 ( with a 2nd edition in 2001 ), designed by Creede and Sharleen Lambard and published by Steve Jackson Games.

The Festival of Britain emblem – the Festival Star – designed by Abram Games, from the cover of the South Bank Exhibition Guide, 1951

They may be designed to represent a classical ideal, or to represent some local aspect of those particular Games.

The latest torch is designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby ( BarberOsgerby ) for the 2012 London Games.

Pictionary is a guessing word game designed by Robert Angel and first published in 1985 by Seattle Games Inc. Hasbro has been the publisher since 1994.

Games that are today sometimes perceived as ancestors of the real-time strategy genre were never marketed or designed as such at the original date of publication.

Games were designed in a wide variety of genres while developers had to work within strict limits of available processor power and memory.

Many scenarios and campaigns are designed by Games Workshop and printed in the ' codexes ', rulebooks or White Dwarf.

Since 1990 Mensa has also sponsored the annual Mensa Mind Games competition, whereat the Mensa Select award is given by American Mensa to five board games that are " original, challenging, and well designed.

Marble Madness is an arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny, and published by Atari Games in 1984.

Talisman: The Magical Quest Game is a fantasy themed adventure board game for two to six players, originally designed and produced by Games Workshop and now published by Fantasy Flight Games.

The Games featured the first athlete's village and was designed to be intimate, allowing spectators and athletes the ability to walk to nearly all the venues.

Williams's company designed the set of the Tavis Smiley Show on PBS, the Olympic athletes ' apartments as part of New York City's failed bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, and residences and businesses in the Palm Beach, Florida area.

* Atlas Terrain Engine, developed by Garage Games for use in their Torque Shader Engine

( This package was released for the PC a year earlier under the title Atari: 80 Classic Games in One.

* Missing in Action ( Programmed by Sculptured Software for TNT Games ).

New Rules for Classic Games.

* GF — Games finished: number of games pitched where player was the final pitcher for his team as a relief pitcher

BRP was used ( through a special arrangement with Swedish Fredrik Malmberg ) as the base for the highly successful Swedish game Drakar och Demoner from Target Games.

* Games Programming for the Absolute Beginner with BlitzMax by Sloan Kelly, ISBN 0-9553771-0-2

Capcom was also criticized by Mega Man fans and gaming sites for cancelling Mega Man Legends 3 and Mega Man Universe, for releasing Mega Man X and the upcoming Rockman XOver ( Mega Man XOver ) for iOS devices, and their handing of the development of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City to Slant Six Games and the upcoming DmC: Devil May Cry to Ninja Theory.

In classical Greece, celery leaves were used as garlands for the dead, and the wreaths of the winners at the Isthmian Games were first made of celery before being replaced by crowns made of pine.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

* The Chimera is the name of the enemy alien race from Insomniac Games ' Resistance trilogy for the PlayStation 3.

Games do not have to stop at the avatar-player level, but current implementations aiming for more immersive playing space ( i. e. Laser tag ) take the form of augmented reality rather than cyberspace, fully immersive virtual realities remaining impractical.

Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

View of the mountain-top stadium of the Delphi sanctuary, used for the Pythian Games.

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

USA Diving is sanctioned by the United States Olympic Committee for selecting team representatives for international diving competitions including the Olympic Games.

Images of discus throwers figured prominently in advertising for early modern Games, such as fundraising stamps for the 1896 games and the main posters for the 1920 and 1948 Summer Olympics.

In 86 he founded the Capitoline Games, a quadrennial contest comprising athletic displays, chariot racing, and competitions for oratory, music and acting.

When Martin Gardner retired from writing his " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine, Hofstadter succeeded him in 1981 – 1983 with a column entitled Metamagical Themas ( an anagram of " Mathematical Games ").