By now Harmony could see that most of the adults in the train were winded and resting, or else siphoned off from the games by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering above them.

Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.

It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games, selling 70, 000 arcade cabinets.

Amber DRPG was created in the 1980s, and is much more focused on relationships and roleplaying than most of the roleplaying games of that era.

Although early Commodore advertisements attempted to cast the computer as an all-purpose business machine, the Amiga was most commercially successful as a home computer, with a wide range of games and creative software.

Applications could not directly address video memory in this mode without modification, so it was incompatible with most games, although there is no inherent reason why a game could not be written to function in shadow mode.

) This lack of new games was due in part to a lack of funding, with Atari continuing to develop most of its games for the saturated 2600 market.

As with most game consoles, there were many more games in development for the 7800 than were actually released.

The Atari Lynx has several innovative features including it being the first color handheld, with a backlit display, a switchable right-handed / left-handed ( upside down ) configuration, and the ability to network with up to 17 other units via its " ComLynx " system ( though most games would network eight or fewer players ).

One of Nimzowitsch's most famous games is his celebrated immortal zugzwang game against Sämisch at Copenhagen 1923.

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.

* Paul Johner vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Dresden 1926, NimzoIndian Defence, Rubinstein Variation ( E47 ), 0 – 1 One of Nimzowitsch's most famous games sees White fall deep into passivity and get squeezed.

This most commonly refers to matched pairs of handguns but can refer to any other weapon that can be held in one hand such as machine pistols and even melee weapons, although this is more common in role-playing video games.

Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).

Rules can range from the very simple, as in tic-tac-toe, to those describing a game universe in great detail, as in Dungeons & Dragons ( although most of the latter are role-playing games where the board is secondary to the game, helping to visualize the game scenario ).

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

This is most often used in wargaming, though many abstract strategy games such as Abalone, Agon, hexagonal chess, and connection games use hexagonal layouts.

Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.

Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of each other, and that the game's most direct antecedents are the English games of stoolball and " tut-ball ".

* In tennis, the serve is dominant to the extent that the server is expected to win most of his service games ( at advanced level & onwards ); a break of service, where the server loses the game, is of major importance in a match.

Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and with friends at home, making it one of the world's most popular card games, particularly among seniors.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

The most valuable player award was split three ways, among Glen Mankowski, Gordon Hartweger and Tom Kieffer.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner Shane Warne, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the Ball of the century.

At the end of the game, all players liquidate their stock in order to determine which player has the most money.

However, often it is most advantageous for the player selecting to choose to let the more expensive chains remain on the board ( and trade in their stock of the less expensive chain at the 2-to-1 ratio described below ).

Once the game ends, the minority and majority bonuses are paid to the minority and majority holders in each of the remaining chains ; each player sells his or her shares of stock in each of the remaining chains ; and the player with the most money wins.

The most popular player in franchise history, " Gonzo " signed a one-year contract worth just under $ 7 million on December 7 to play for the rival Los Angeles Dodgers for the 2007 season.

The player who experienced this phenomenon with the most number of at-bats in a season was Ernie Bowman, who over 125 at-bats in 1963 had a batting average of. 184 and an on-base percentage of. 181.

The most recent player credited with a " straight " steal of home was Pete Kozma of the St. Louis Cardinals who stole home against the Chicago Cubs on September 21, 2012.

A committee of baseball writers were to convene after the season to determine the " most important and useful player to the club and to the league ".

The award goes to the player who receives the most overall points.

A technical foul may also be issued when certain infractions occur, most commonly for unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of a player or coach.

The most effective way for a player to find a good string tension is to experiment.

At the time of his retirement from the England team in 1970, he was the nation's most capped player, having turned out 106 times at the highest level.

Each set consists of nine ends and the player with the most shots at the end of a set wins the set.

The winner of the game is the player with the most points.

The winner is the player who pockets the most coins.

He is the most recent Pirate player to appear on the cover.

These positions are further differentiated by which side of the field the player spends most time in.

While players may spend most of the game in a specific position, there are few restrictions on player movement, and players can switch positions at any time.

The player can move along platforms, as well as jump to those above and to the side, similar to most platform games.

In the " hop across ", the most popular variation, each player puts his / her own colored pieces on one of the six points or corners of the star and attempts to race them all " home " to the opposite corner.