For example, the highly anticipated first person shooter Quake used highly-optimized assembly code designed almost entirely around the P5 Pentium's FPU.

In 1999, Duke Nukem 3D was banned in Brazil, along with Quake, Doom and several other violent first-person shooters after a violent rampage in and around a movie theater was allegedly inspired by the first level in the game.

Some Id Software titles ported to Linux are Doom ( the first Id Software game to be ported ), Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Doom 3, Quake 4, and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

The spin-off Enemy Territory: Quake Wars acts as a prequel to Quake II, when the Strogg first invade Earth.

On October 26, 1996, a well-known gaming clan, the Rangers, surprised the Quake community with Diary of a Camper, the first widely known machinima film.

Among the notable films were Clan Phantasm's Devil's Covenant, the first feature-length Quake movie ; Avatar and Wendigo's Blahbalicious, which the QML awarded seven Quake Movie Oscars ; and Clan Undead's Operation Bayshield, which introduced simulated lip synchronization and featured customized digital assets.

With Quake II filming now feasible, Strange Company's 1999 production Eschaton: Nightfall was the first work to feature entirely custom-made character models.

The first film made with Quake III Arena, Quad God was also the first to be distributed as recorded video frames, not game-specific instructions.

Machinima has been used in music videos, of which the first documented example is Ken Thain's 2002 " Rebel vs. Thug ", made in collaboration with Chuck D. For this, Thain used Quake2Max, a modification of Quake II that provided cel-shaded animation.

After the QML's Quake Movie Oscars, dedicated machinima awards did not reappear until the AMAS created the Mackies for its first Machinima Film Festival in 2002.

A mirror reflects Sarge and the Quake III logo in the opening scene of the first level, Q3DM0.

Quake 3 is one of the first games where the third-person model is able to look up and down and around as the head, torso and legs are separate.

It was the first game in the popular Quake series of video games.

Multiplayer Quake was one of the first games that people singled out as a form of electronic sport.

QTest also gave gamers their first peek into the filesystem and modifiability of the Quake engine, and many entity mods ( that placed monsters in the otherwise empty multiplayer maps ) and custom player skins began appearing online before the full game was even released.

The first major Quake mod was Team Fortress.

* 1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails.

The first and second stages of the Saturn V rocket performed nominally ; the spacecraft, along with the mission's three crew members aboard, successfully entered orbit around Earth just under twelve minutes after lift-off.

NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 16 into space.

Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.

On launch the rocket engine's first chamber developing thrust would power the missile along a predetermined course to the target at around Mach 1. 5.

In the traditional versions of his origin, after the Kents retrieved Clark from his rocket, they brought him to the Smallville Orphanage and returned a few days later to formally adopt the orphan, giving him as a first name Martha's maiden name, " Clark.

Throughout the first seven seasons of the series he has a complicated relationship with Lana Lang, as well as his self-perceived guilt over the fact that the meteor shower that killed Lana's parents and created most of the superhumans he fought in the show's first few years was caused by his rocket coming to Earth and dragging pieces of Krypton with it.

They were first detected in the June 8, 1968 flare observation during a rocket flight.

They were first observed in the two 1970 rocket flights which also detected coronal holes.

X-ray bright points were first detected in April, 8 1969 during a rocket flight.

* 2005 – XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.

* 1979 – The first European Ariane rocket is launched.

There is a wide array of power-ups, such as a backpack that increases the player character's ammunition-carrying capacity, armor, first aid kits to restore health, the berserk pack ( a dark first aid box that puts the character into berserk mode, allowing him to deal out rocket launcher-level damage with his fists and potentially splattering former humans and imps, as well as setting the user's health to 100 % if it were lower ), supernatural blue orbs ( named soul spheres in the manuals ) that boost the player character's health up to a maximum of 200 %, nightvision, computer maps ( which show every area of the level ), partial invisibility, and protective suits that allow the player to survive in toxic acids.

* 1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.

* 1966 – Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket

* 2012 – The European Space Agency ( ESA ) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe ’ s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

It would be also the first mission to fire the Agena's own rocket, allowing them to reach higher orbits.

The Atlas A first flew on 11 June 1957 ; the flight lasted only about 24 seconds before the rocket blew up.

On April 6, 1965, Intelsat ’ s first satellite, the Intelsat I ( nicknamed Early Bird ), was placed in geostationary orbit above the Atlantic Ocean by a Delta D rocket.

* 1944 – The first German V-2 rocket hits the United Kingdom.

Here a part of the team on the German rocket program was developing the Wasserfall missile, a variant of the V-2 rocket, the first ground-to-air missile.

The first ASROC system using the MK-112 " Matchbox " launcher, was developed in the 1950s and installed in the 1960s.

Reloads were carried in many classes, either on first level of the superstructure immediately abaft the launcher, or in a separate deckhouse just forward or abaft the Mk 112.

The first two satellites were launched on 21 October 2011 from Guiana Space Centre using a Soyuz launcher.

The first Soviet " RPGs " ( RPG-40, RPG-43 and RPG-6 ) were, in fact, thrown hand grenades, and the acronym stood for ручная противотанковая граната, or " hand-held anti-tank grenade ", obviously not a launcher.

* 2009-- Earth-Omid-launched by Iranian made launcher Safir, first Iranian-launched satellite

As Harriman predicted, once the first flight succeeds, many seek to invest in his venture to make more flights using a catapult launcher built on Pikes Peak.

Soviet experts launched Venera-1 in two steps, first placing the 7-ton Sputnik 8 into terrestrial parking orbit with a Molniya launcher.

Also in the UK in 1967 the go-ahead had been given for the UK's ( separately developed ) three-stage Black Arrow rocket launcher ( made by Westland Aircraft, with Bristol Siddeley rocket engines developed at the Rocket Propulsion Establishment at Westcott, Buckinghamshire )-Britain did not need to rely on Europa, and Black Arrow would be ready first.

Due to Britain's withdrawal in 1968, ELDO in June 1969 had other ideas than staying with the Blue Streak launcher for Europa's first stage, to give technical work to countries that were still ( loyally ) part of the organisation.

At 11. 12pm GMT on 30 November 1968, the first three-stage Europa 1 launcher put a 550 lb Italian satellite-model into orbit.

The Diamant rocket ( Diamant is French for " diamond ") was the first exclusively French expendable launch system and at the same time the first satellite launcher not built by either the USA or USSR.

The first had three gantries while the second had three above ground coffin launchers ( The term " coffin launcher " is used because the missile was laid on its side horizontally with the enclosure door or coffin-lid situated above.

On 16 October 1958, the first Atlas ICBM launcher ( 576A-1 ) constructed at Vandenberg AFB, California, was accepted from the contractor by the 1st Missile Division.

In April 1960, the first attempted launch of a Series D Atlas ICBM from a coffin-type launcher ( 576B-2 ) was successful.

This launcher was the prototype of the ones to be used at the first operational Atlas squadron, the 564th Strategic Missile Squadron, Francis E. Warren AFB, Wyoming.

In July 1959, construction began on the first Series E Atlas ICBM coffin-type launcher ( Atlas operational system test facility # 1 ).

Construction began on the first SM-65F Atlas ICBM " silo-lift " launcher ( Atlas operational system test facility # 2 ) in November.

On October 4, 1957, the Vanguard team learned of the launch of Sputnik 1 by the USSR while still working on a test vehicle ( TV-2 ) designed to test the first stage of their launcher rocket.

The Jericho II forms the basis of the three-stage, 23 ton Shavit NEXT satellite launcher, first launched in 1988 from Palmachim.

Ariane 1 was the first rocket in the Ariane launcher family.

The first British HEAT weapon to be developed and issue was a rifle grenade using a 2 1 / 2 inch cup launcher on the end of the barrel ; the British No. 68 AT grenade issued to the British army in 1940.

The first six second-generation satellites were launched on October 19, 2010, using a Soyuz launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.