As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

This was typical of such games, which were earnestly played to win and practically never wound up in an expression of good fellowship.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

After the battle of Actium, which was fought near a sanctuary of Apollo, Augustus enlarged Apollo's temple, dedicated a portion of the spoils to him, and instituted quinquennial games in his honour.

On the promontory was an ancient temple of Apollo Actius, which was enlarged by Augustus, who, to memorialize the Battle of Actium, instituted or renewed the quinquennial games known as Actia or Ludi Actiaci.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

This was a blow from which the machine never fully recovered, although games sales for it would ultimately outstrip those of the BBC Micro.

Despite this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.

They have been to the playoffs six times and have won six playoff games, three of which were victories during their run in the 2008-09 NFL Playoffs.

This was the first time since that the home team won all seven games of a World Series and the first time that a National League team won a World Series in which the home team won all seven games of a World Series.

It also had a built in speaker which was compatible with such games software.

It listed and quantified his public expenditure, which encompassed distributions to the people, grants of land or money to army veterans, subsidies to the aerarium ( treasury ), building of temples, religious offerings, and expenditures on theatrical shows and gladiatorial games.

Many of the 5200's games appeared simply as updated versions of 2600 titles, which failed to excite consumers.

First, Atari had been facing mounting pressure from the ColecoVision, which boasted graphics that more closely mirrored arcade games of the time than Atari ’ s reigning 2600 VCS system.

GCC, which had a background in creating arcade games, designed their new system with a graphical architecture similar to arcade machines of the time.

When Nintendo revived the industry, they signed up software development companies to create NES games under a strict license agreement which imposed serious restrictions on what they were allowed to do.

Its flexible design enabled it to play games which used display list manipulation to generate a pseudo 3D appearance such as Ballblazer ( 1987 ) and F-18 Hornet ( 1988 ).

To compensate for this, GCC ’ s engineers allowed games to include a POKEY audio chip in the cartridge which substantially improved the audio quality.

To combat this, they included a digital signature protection method which prevented unauthorized 7800 games from being played on the system.

It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.

Most games came with mylar overlays which could be applied to the controllers.

However, Atari started to sue its competitor companies for releasing games to which it had exclusive-rights agreements and Emerson was left with thousands of manufactured games that could no longer be sold.

Ball games, especially football, required some attention, and other organized sports may have attracted him as participant or spectator.

The guessing games referred to have driven more than one Negro into the narcotics ward, the madhouse, or the river.

Moritz was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle in the thigh of his right ( kicking ) leg and, as a result, several of his successful conversions have gone barely far enough.

In their first three games, the Longhorns have had the ball 41 times and scored 16 times, or 40 per cent ; ;

The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

Many of the recent TV Games series of old Atari games have included either the 2600 or arcade versions of Asteroids.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

Garry Kasparov argued that Karpov would have had good chances, because he had beaten Spassky convincingly and was a new breed of tough professional, and indeed had higher quality games, while Fischer had been inactive for three years.

The magazine's stated criteria for the Hall of Fame encompasses " games that have met or exceeded the highest standards of quality and play value and have been continuously in production for at least 10 years ; i. e., classics.

If Acorn had thought to include this small modification in the original Electron design it is likely the machine would have had a much greater impact as it would have nearly doubled the amount of motion possible in games and saved modes 0 – 3 ( including the only 16 colour mode ) from being nearly useless due to contended memory timings.

There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Astérix, is themed around the series.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

However, five American League teams had threatened to block the league assignments because of concerns that they would have additional games out of their time zone, causing early starts that would decrease revenue and TV ratings.

Many related games have emerged from football, mainly with variations of contact to encourage greater participation.

While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.

Nonetheless, some unreleased Atari 7800 games, as well as early versions of released games have been released to the public.

Learning time does not necessarily correlate with the number or complexity of rules ; some games, such as chess or Go, have simple rulesets while possessing profound strategies.

Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history ; some even pre-date literacy skill development in the earliest civilizations.

The rise of computer use is one of the reasons said to have led to a relative decline in board games.

Bruce Halpenny, a games inventor said when interviewed about his game, “ With crime you deal with every basic human emotion and also have enough elements to combine action with melodrama.