Category: 1979 video games

Category: Multiplayer video games

The lab explores and creates digital entertainment prototypes for film, television, video games, broadband and mobile phones.

* Adder, a fictional commanding officer in the Advance Wars video games

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.

Notable popular games particularly associated with the Electron include: Crystal Castles ( video game ) | Crystal Castles is an example of a popular arcade game officially ported to the Electron ( US Gold ).

This video card would also support fast scrolling of high resolution color screens for games, because it had the indirection of the character pointers, so it was possible to quickly scroll the high resolution display, ( or use other effects ) by simply manipulating the 1920 / 1024 bytes of text video instead of the 24. 576 bytes of high resolution video memory.

Arcologies also appear in video games, such as SimCity 2000, Escape Velocity Nova, Deus Ex: Invisible War, Call to Power II, Shadowrun, and Mass Effect.

The CPC series was pitched against other home computers primarily used to play video games and enjoyed a strong supply of game software.

Both video and sound are used in 2600 games.

* 1980s: Accompanying the spread of the personal computer in family homes (" Famikon "), local shops increasingly began to deal in video games, and major gaming chain stores appeared on the market.

* It was also during the 1990s that the anime craze grew out of video games, and the youth group known as otaku began to pour into Akihabara.

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.

AMOS was mostly used to make multimedia software, video games ( platformers and graphical adventures ) and educational software.

Many board games are now available as video games, which can include the computer itself as one of several players, or as sole opponent.

Some games use CDs, video cassettes, and, more recently, DVDs in accompaniment to the game.

* Many video games, including Beavis and Butt-Head, Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity, Beavis and Butt-Head: Bunghole in One, Calling All Dorks, Little Thingies, Wiener Takes All, and Beavis and Butt-Head Do U.

Batman has also starred in multiple video games, most of which were adaptations of the various cinematic or animated incarnations of the character.

* Numerous video game consoles are backward compatible and are able to play the games created for predecessor consoles:

* Rush ( computer and video games ), an RTS strategy influenced by the blitzkrieg method

It is not uncommon for video games with a large variety of enemies ( especially role-playing video games ) to include a bestiary of sorts.

The term " video jockey ", or VJ, was used to describe the fresh-faced youth who introduced the music videos.

The term GUI is rarely applied to other low-resolution types of interfaces that are non-generic, such as video games ( where HUD is preferred ), or not restricted to flat screens, like volumetric displays.

The term can also be used as an explanation for the poor quality of a digitized audio or video file.

While the term " impi " has become synonymous with the Zulu nation in international popular culture, it appears in various video games such as Civilization III, Civilization IV: Warlords and Civilization: Revolution, where the Impi is the unique unit for the Zulu faction with Shaka as their leader and also as an appearance as unique unit of the Bantu nation in Rise of Nation ( Zulus are among many tribes who make up the Bantu people ).

They exist by that name only in the Expanded Universe, including video games such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Jedi Knight series ; the term is never used in any of the six Star Wars films.

The live action in LARP is analogous to the term live action used in film and video to differentiate works with human actors from animation.

The term letterbox is sometimes used to emphasize that a widescreen motion picture or video has not been anamorphically encoded for 16: 9 screens, thus not taking full advantage of the resolution provided by DVD, high-definition television ( HDTV ), or other media.

In the 1980s, the term " rock video " was often used to describe this form of entertainment, although the term has fallen into disuse.

The term is also used to distinguish role-playing games from role-playing video games, although role-playing games do not necessarily use either pencils or paper.

In the 20th and 21st century, he appeared in movies, in fantasy, in video games and in role play, where by extension, the term " pegasus " ( plural: " pegasi ") is often used to refer to any winged horse.

RGB is also the term referring to a type of component video signal used in the video electronics industry.

The term " streaming media " can apply to media other than video and audio such as live closed captioning, stock ticker, and real-time text, which are all considered " streaming text ".

The term " video game console " is used to distinguish a machine designed for people to buy and use primarily for playing video games on a TV.

In modern times, the term " zombie " has been applied to an undead being in horror fiction, largely drawn from George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. They have appeared as plot devices in various books, films, video games and in television shows.

The term Set-Back Box is used in the digital TV industry to describe a piece of consumer hardware that enables them to access both linear broadcast and internet-based video content, plus a range of interactive services like Electronic Programme Guides ( EPG ), Pay Per View ( PPV ) and Video on Demand ( VOD ) as well as internet browsing, and view them on a large screen television set.

The term applies equally well to film and video cameras, computer graphics, and motion capture systems.

The term " arcade game " is also, in recent times, used to refer to a video game that was designed to look like a classic arcade game ( adopting an isometric view, 2D graphics, scores, lives, etc.

A terminal emulator, terminal application, term, or tty for short, is a program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture.

Although the term closed-circuit television ( CCTV ) is common, it is quickly becoming outdated as more video systems lose the closed circuit for signal transmission and are instead transmitting on computer networks.

Nonetheless, the term DBS is often used interchangeably with DTH to cover both analog and digital video and audio services ( including video-on-demand and interactive features ) received by relatively small dishes ( less than 1 meter ).

Cross-platform is a term that can also apply to video games released on a range of video game consoles, specialized computers dedicated to the task of playing games.