Prior to the NES version, Nintendo also made a Duck Hunt game based on Laser Clay Shooting System released in 1976.

Prior to the construction of these infrastructures, transbay transportation was dominated by fleets of ferryboats operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Key System transit company.

Prior to the coming of the Interstate Highway System in the late 1950s, the only improvements to US 75 in Texas beyond building a two-lane paved roadway were in the Houston and Dallas areas.

Prior to the introduction of the Bulletin Board System ( BBS ), modems typically operated on direct-dial telephone lines that always began and ended with a particular modem at each end.

Prior to the advent by North Electric of the proprietary ' LOCOTROL ' name, the product was referred to as ' RCE ' ( Radio Controlled Equipment ) or ' RCS ' ( Radio Control System ) and the lead and remote units as ' master ' and ' slave '.

Prior to the Bell System divestiture on January 1, 1984, American Telephone & Telegraph Company ( AT & T ) through its Bell System companies held a natural monopoly for telephone service within the United States.

Prior to the merger with Japan Airlines, Japan Air System had its headquarters by Tokyo International Airport in Ōta.

Prior to then, the AT & T Long Lines division of the Bell System, which was what AT & T called itself when it was responsible for providing both long distance and local telephone service before the 1984 breakup, provided maintenance and installation of long line facilities for the Bell System's long distance service.

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Prior to the creation of the Interstate Highway System, many states east of the Rocky Mountains had already started building and operating their own long-distance intercity toll roads, or turnpikes.

Prior to the construction of the Stirling railway station as part of the Northern Suburbs Transit System, a possible deviation of the rail alignment was considered to directly service the suburb and it's shopping district including Westfield Innaloo.

" Prior to the January 1, 1984, breakup of the Bell System, the corporate name of its principal subsidiary Pacific Bell was The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, which had also been referred to as " PacTel.

Prior to her marriage, she served as the first paid Executive Secretary of the Ohio Credit Union League ( now Ohio Credit Union System ) which she co-founded.

Prior to the U. S. entry into World War II, Quillen received a two-year Selective Service System Class 3-A draft deferment beginning in December 1940 through late November 1942.

Prior to the divestiture of the Bell System on January 1, 1984, the Bell Labs Processor Division had developed the 3B20D (" D " for Duplex ); the commercial simplex version 3B20S, which competed with the DEC VAX for internal Bell System usage ; the world's first 32-bit microprocessor, the BELLMAC 32A ; and, using this microprocessor, the 3B5 and 3B15 computers for billing and telecom switching control applications.

Prior to 1994, Carnegie Mellon University exclusively used the locally-developed and non-standard Andrew Messaging System ( AMS ) for its email communication needs.

Prior to the Act, Puerto Ricans in the mainland United States who were permanent residents were required to register with the Selective Service System and could be drafted.

Prior to Windows Vista, System Restore was based on a file-based filter that watched changes for a certain set of file extensions, and then copied files before they were overwritten.

Prior to the name's announcement, Intel referred to it as Common System Interface ( CSI ).

Prior to June 17, 2010, the line was owned by CSX Transportation, except for the East Boston section, which Guilford Rail System uses ( since reconnected to the old Eastern Railroad East Boston line ).

Prior to the invention of printing, the Pecia System was used in European university cities.

Prior to this, one would have to manually bless the copy of the System Folder that they wished to use.

Prior to 2006, off-premises alcohol sales were forbidden until noon on Sundays, and liquor / wine stores were required to be closed the entire day.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

Prior to that, the lifelong fan of the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers recorded a song called " The D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song ( Oh really?

Prior to the commencement of the Roberts hearings, the chair of that committee, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, wrote an op / ed in the New York Times referring to Roe as a " super-precedent.

Prior to the closing of the Vandenberg facility, orbiters were transported from the OPF to the VAB on their undercarriages, only to be raised when the orbiter was being lifted for attachment to the SRB / ET stack.

Prior to this, Belarusian had also been written in the Belarusian Latin alphabet ( Łacinka / Лацінка ) and the Belarusian Arabic alphabet.

Prior studies had also assumed a clear glycemic threshold between people at high and low risk of diabetic retinopathy .< ref name =" pmid9203460 "> However, it has been shown that the widely accepted WHO and American Diabetes Association diagnostic cutoff for diabetes of a fasting plasma glucose ≥ 7. 0 mmol / l ( 126 mg / dl ) does not accurately identify diabetic retinopathy among patients.

Prior to the decision of the House of Lords in Re B ( A Child ) UKHL 35 http :// www. publications. parliament. uk / pa / ld200708 / ldjudgmt / jd080611 / child-1. htm there had been some confusion-even at the Court of Appeal-as to whether there was some intermediate standard, described as the ' heightened standard '.

Prior to 1996, the land was known as Mickey's Birthdayland / Starland, and was set in the city of Duckburg.

Prior to the establishment of ICANN for this purpose, IANA was administered primarily by Jon Postel at the Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) of the University of Southern California ( USC ), under a contract USC / ISI had with the United States Department of Defense, until ICANN was created to assume the responsibility under a United States Department of Commerce contract.

* Alex Prior – singer / composer

Prior to 1837, the land was used by Native American tribes, primarily the Sac / Fox and Potawatomi, as prime hunting grounds.

Prior to this merger, the head of local government was the County Judge / Executive, a post that still exists but now has few powers.

Prior to its settlement by European and / or African people, on the site of this town was the Creek Indian village called " Tumkeehatchee ".

* Prior Lake / Savage Area Schools site

Prior to the 2006-07 school year, high school students from here were sent to Lawrence High School in Lawrence Township as part of a now-ended sending / receiving relationship with the Lawrence Township Public Schools.

Prior to the sudden onset of the rainy season in mid-to late fall, there are often days with a very wide disparity between daytime and nighttime temperatures, sometimes exceeding 20 C / 36 F. There is far less wind in the fall than in spring and early summer.

Prior to July 2010, public school students in grades K-8, attended Memorial School in South Hackensack, as part of a sending / receiving relationship with the South Hackensack School District.

Prior to MRP, and before computers dominated industry, reorder-point / reorder-quantity ( ROP / ROQ ) type methods like EOQ ( Economic Order Quantity ) had been used in manufacturing and inventory management.