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.

In the Olympic Games, long-track speed skating is usually referred to as just " speed skating ", while short-track speed skating is known as " short track ".

Games usually involve shapes, colors, or symbols, and the player must directly or indirectly manipulate them into a specific pattern.

Games usually display on-screen fighters from a side view, and even 3D fighting games play largely within a 2D plane of motion.

Games involving conflict in other arenas than the battlefield, such as business, sports or natural environment are similarly usually excluded.

Games are usually played to a total of 20 tossups read.

* Olympic Stadium, name usually given to the big centrepiece stadium of the Summer Olympic Games

These were usually directed for a selected group of athletes, rather than everybody, which was — basically — the case with the Olympic Games.

Games that require each player to purchase consumable items or specialized equipment are usually poor party games.

Games are usually housed in cabinets.

It is still raced on the world class level, but usually only at select occasions, like the famous Wanamaker Mile held annually at the Millrose Games.

Games consoles usually do not output S-Video, due to the dominance of SCART with its better RGB quality.

The Winter X Games are held in January or February ( usually in January ) and the Summer X Games are usually held in August, both in the United States.

While events of this type are usually held at Highland Games, band competitions in Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland are often large enough to be held as events unto themselves.

Games that use an existing brand but are conceptually very different from the original, such as Battlezone ( 1998 ) and Defender ( 2002 ) are usually regarded as reboots rather than remakes.

" Clue Games " are games between experienced players, which are usually timed for an hour with a half hour of overtime, and a scoring system is used to determine victory.

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

The first Sunday in August is usually the date for the Strathallan Games.

Games typically take place with a highly accurate time-scale, although they usually allow players to play quick sessions with shorter game quarters or periods.

Games are usually played to 25, 50, or 100 points.

Owing to the distance — 40 km longer than the longest race usually skied in the World Cup — as well as the proximity to the just-concluded Olympic Games in Torino, the race was again dominated by long-distance specialists rather than World Cup racers.

Games such as fighting games typically have a larger amount of player characters to choose from, with some basic moves available to all or most characters and some unique moves only available to one or a few characters.

Games UK's list of the hundred greatest games of all time which praises the appealing characters and power ups and 1UP. com's " Essential 50 ", a list of the fifty most important games ever made.

ME Games Ltd ( formerly Middle-earth Play-by-Mail ), which has won several Origin Awards, uses the Battle of Five Armies as an introductory scenario to the full game and includes characters and armies from the book.

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

The game will play a major part in the upcoming American television situation comedy The Goodwin Games, in which the main characters are given a customized version that was created by their late father as part of a inheritance they stand to receive if they get the questions right.

" The sentiment was shared by gaming magazine Pocket Games, which ranked the titles together 8th out of the Top 50 games for the Game Boy, stating " every game in the series is a sprawling classic with well written scripts and solid characters.

Like the other books in the series, West End Games created for this novel a role-playing game sourcebook that expanded on Zahn's characters, locations, weapons, and other facts.

" Paul Glancey of Computer and Video Games consider the game superior to Lucasfilm's earlier adventure titles, and wrote that, " Usually the entertainment you get from an adventure is derived solely from solving puzzles, but the hilarious characters and situations, and the movie-like presentation ... make playing this more like taking part in a comedy film, so it's much more enjoyable.

* Perdiccas appears as one of the main characters in the historical novel Funeral Games, by Mary Renault.

On the Virtual Console version, the Ring Tournament mode in Special Games and the ability to unlock extra characters and courts through the Transfer Pak have been removed.

* Bill Blyden is the owner and manager of Pegasaurus Games, a store in Mud Bay where all the characters shop.

In response to the article, they would also make an article titled " Characters Who Don't Deserve Their Own Games ", stating that many Game Informer users voiced their disapproval, as well as stating that the characters on the list were undoubtedly worse choices than Waluigi.

Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in popular war movies such as The Dirty Dozen, MASH and Kelly's Heroes, as well as characters in other popular films such as Klute, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, JFK, Ordinary People and, more recently, The Hunger Games as President Snow.

In 1983 Mayfair Games created a board game " Dragonriders of Pern " featuring cards with Pern characters and locations.

An arcade redemption game entitled Tux Racer Arcade has been released by Roxor Games ; a sequel entitled Tux 2 Arcade has also been released, featuring four courses and four characters from the commercial version, namely Tux, his friend Trixi, a female penguin, Boris, a bear, and Samuel, a seal.

Throughout its history, Games Workshop released several expansions for the game, each of which added new spells, adventure cards, and heroes ( characters ).

On the rare occasions when Edith takes a stand she proves to be one of the wisest characters, as evidenced in the episodes " The Battle of the Month " and " The Games Bunkers Play ".

He appears as one of the main characters in the novel Funeral Games by Mary Renault.

* Roxana appears as one of the characters in Funeral Games by Mary Renault, 1981, ISBN 0-394-52068-8.

That same year, Games. net ranked Custer's victim as fifth on the list of top ten disturbingly sexual game characters.

Other examples include the power armor used by the Space Marines and other characters from Games Workshop's Warhammer 40k franchise, and the power armor used by the Brotherhood of Steel in the Fallout franchise, and the iconic MJOLNIR Armor worn by protagonist Master Chief in the Halo series of video games.

Games often let the player control an entire party of characters.