** Miniature figure ( gaming ), a small figurine used in role playing games and tabletop wargames

The Shadowrun role-playing game has spawned Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game, four video games, an action figure game ( Shadowrun Duels ), two magazines, an art book and more than 50 novels, starting with the Secrets of Power series which introduces some of the original characters of Shadowrun and gives a good introduction to this fictional universe.

Some games in the tradition of role-playing games require one participant to take the roles of the various supporting characters, as well as introducing non-character forces ( for example, a flood ), but other systems dispense with this figure and distribute this function among all players.

Even this figure was misleading, since Green Bay had yielded only 131 points in the first 11 games ( when they clinched their division ), the lowest total in professional football.

Jim Lee's X-Men designs would be the basis for much of the X-Men animated series and action figure line as well as several Capcom video games.

Players of the Keen series that spent the necessary time could figure out SGA by looking at the many signs throughout the games.

Similarly, UMG Recordings, Inc. was fined US $ 400, 000 for COPPA violations in connection with a Web site that promoted the then 13-year-old pop star Lil ' Romeo, and hosted child-oriented games and activities, and Bonzi Software, which offered downloads of an animated figure " BonziBuddy " that provided shopping advice, jokes, and trivia was fined US $ 75, 000 for COPPA violations.

A moderate collection of merchandise was also produced for the animated series, including an action figure line by Kenner and video games by THQ.

Notable events include curling, carriage rides, ice sculptures, and live entertainment, plus BGSU Athletic events such as hockey and basketball games and figure skating exhibition with local stars such as Scott Hamilton.

* Karol Kennedy – 1952 Olympic silver medalist who competed in the 1948 and 1952 games in figure skating

Ali was a very endearing figure to the people of Zaire, and his mind games played out well, turning the Congolese people in his favour and against Foreman.

The games were affected by the deaths of Australian alpine skier Ross Milne and British luge slider Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski, during training, and by the deaths, three years earlier, of the entire US figure skating team and family members ( see Prior tragedies below ).

By the mid 1970's, SPI's annual income rose to the 6 figure range, with paid staff numbering as many as forty people, and with 40 + games being produced through both the magazine and boxed sales annually.

Little John was also a figure in the Robin Hood plays or games during the 15th to 17th centuries, particularly those held in Scotland.

In the first games, the main characters were Blasternaut, a heroic astronaut-type figure, Spot, his robot companion and Galactic Commander, a female superior officer from base.

He plays a slightly larger role in the story's sequel, Batman: Dark Victory, in which Batman turns to him to figure out the significance of the lost games of hangman that are left at the scenes of the Hangman killer's crimes.

Some media commentators, however, believe the figure may have been overpriced given the fact that both Seven and Ten struggled to onsell games to Pay TV provider Foxtel.

* collectible merchandise, such as action figure toys or board games

Some t-shirt designs include stick figure with detached buttocks, with " LMAO " as the caption, a ROFLCOPTER ( an ASCII drawing of a helicopter made of internet slang ), the Intel Pentium Processor logo replacing " Intel " with " Geek ", and a pixellated 1up Mushroom from the Super Mario Brothers games series.

More than 2, 000 commuters a day now travel by river which adds up to three million people per year, a figure that is set to increase with preparations for the 2012 Olympics and tourist traffic during the games.

Drizzt has also appeared in a number of graphic novels and video games, and as a miniature figure.

This has been elaborated upon in later games, where a friendly figure named Dr. Ein directs Bomberman's objectives.

Since no one at Jellyvision at the time actually liked trivia games, we tried to figure out how to make trivia questions fun and engaging to us.

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.

Players outside of Australia sometimes engage in related games on the available fields, like Metro Footy ( played on gridiron fields ) and Samoa Rules ( played on rugby fields ).

Previous game consoles sometimes had a difficult time replicating the arcade experience in home versions of popular arcade games.

In particular, home versions of arcade games sometimes had problems with flickering and slow down when more than a few moving objects appeared on the screen at once.

Hole card games are sometimes played on tables with a small mirror or electronic sensor which are used to peek securely at the hole card.

Bocce ( sometimes anglicized as bocci or boccie ) is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire.

The tradition is often carried out at other sporting events, both professional or amateur, and even sometimes at non-sporting events where the anthem is played, throughout the Baltimore / Washington area and beyond, notably at Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers, Penn State Nittany Lions and Aberdeen Ironbirds games.

Similarly, authors of fantasy role-playing games sometimes compile bestiaries as references, such as the Monster Manual for Dungeons & Dragons.

Each player has ten pieces, except in games between two players when 15 are sometimes used.

Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate in competitions.

Trivia games, such as Trivial Pursuit, are sometimes played as drinking games.

Film drinking games are played while watching a movie ( sometimes a TV show or a sporting event ) and have a set of rules for who drinks when and how much based on on-screen events and dialogue.

Rule sets for such games are usually arbitrary and local, although they are sometimes published by fan clubs.

Dominoes ( or dominos ) generally refers to the collective gaming pieces making up a domino set ( sometimes called a deck or pack ) or to the subcategory of tile games played with domino pieces.

The Digimon series has a large number of video games which usually have their own independent storylines with a few sometimes tying into the stories of the anime series or manga series.

Films, videos and sometimes video games are sometimes dubbed into the local language of a foreign market.

This will sometimes make combat last longer than in other games.

The show revolves around the priests ' lives on Craggy Island, sometimes dealing with matters of the church but more often dealing with Father Ted's schemes to either resolve a situation with the parish or other Craggy Island residents, or to win games of one-upmanship against his arch-nemesis, Father Dick Byrne of the nearby Rugged Island parish.

German-style games are sometimes contrasted with American-style games, which generally involve more luck, conflict, and drama.

Because most of these games feature the name of the designer prominently on the box, they are sometimes known as designer games.

A certain amount of socializing might typically be expected during game play, as opposed to the relative silence sometimes expected during some strategy games like chess and go or restrictions on allowable conversations or actions found in some highly competitive games such as contract bridge.