Simon the Sorcerer or Simon the Magician, in Latin Simon Magus, ( Greek Σίμων ὁ μάγος ) was a Samaritan magus or religious figure and a convert to Christianity, baptised by Philip the Evangelist, whose later confrontation with Peter is recorded in.

The fantastic stories of Simon the Sorcerer persisted into the later Middle Ages, becoming a possible inspiration for the Faustbuch and Goethe's Faust.

The first game, Simon the Sorcerer, was released in 1993 for IBM PC compatibles running MS-DOS on three 3. 5 " floppy disks in a large box styled with purple margins, with no speech and only sub-titles used throughout the game.

The CD-ROM version of the sequel Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe offers the option to switch between subtitles or the soundtrack.

Since its original release, the PC version of Simon the Sorcerer has remained in-print direct from Adventure Soft.

More recently, Idigicon has re-released the latest versions of all five Simon the Sorcerer individual titles in DVD style cases, followed by a combination pack containing four titles, without Simon the Sorcerer 3D, on one disc.

The Amiga version of Simon the Sorcerer received generally high ratings.

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* The voice of Simon in the Adventure Soft computer games series Simon the Sorcerer ( 1993 ).

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Boudica's story is the subject of several novels, including books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Roxanne Gregory, Pauline Gedge, Manda Scott, Alan Gold, Diana L. Paxson, David Wishart, George Shipway, Simon Scarrow and J. F. Broxholme ( a pseudonym of Duncan Kyle ).

The Bastard Operator From Hell ( BOFH ), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users ( often referred to as lusers ), colleagues, bosses, and anyone else who gets in his way.

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (; born 26 October 1962 ), known professionally as Cary Elwes, is an English actor and voice actor.

The matter is not so: For Rabbi Akiba was a great scholar of the sages of the Mishnah, and he was the assistant-warrior of the king Ben Coziba Simon bar Kokhba ...

, the board is made up of members of the Clay family, whereas the advisory committee is composed of leading authorities in mathematics, namely Sir Andrew Wiles, Yum-Tong Siu, Richard Melrose, Gregory Margulis, James Carlson, and Simon Donaldson.

It has been argued that, while Hume did not think causation is reducible to pure regularity, he was not a fully fledged realist either: Simon Blackburn calls this a quasi-realist reading.

* In an episode of The Saint television series entitled ' Escape Route ' ( 1966 ), Simon Templar ( Roger Moore ) is sent to Dartmoor to uncover a planned escape.

So Irenaeus tells of the system of Simon Magus, of the system of Menander, of the system of Saturninus, in which the number of these angels is reckoned as seven, and of the system of Carpocrates.

We are told also, that the Demiurge is of a fiery nature, the words of Moses being applied to him, “ the Lord our God is a burning and consuming fire ,” a text used also by Simon.

Simon Critchley argues in his 1992 book The Ethics of Deconstruction that Derrida's deconstruction is an intrinsically ethical practice.

It is often considered to be related to the phonetically similar Caladbolg, a sword borne by several figures from Irish mythology, although a borrowing of Caledfwlch from Irish Caladbolg has been considered unlikely by Rachel Bromwich and D. Simon Evans.

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.

A modern grimoire is the Simon Necronomicon, named after a fictional book of magic in the stories of author H. P. Lovecraft, and inspired by Babylonian mythology and the Ars Goetia, a section in the Lesser Key of Solomon which concerns the summoning of demons.

Simon is particularly interested in how these factors directly and indirectly influence the making of decisions.

Simon is primarily interested in seeking identification of the individual employee with the organizational goals and values.

While this notion was not entirely new, Simon is best known for its origination.

Satisficing, as defined by Simon, can be applied to library and information science where researchers assess how much information is adequate to meet their information need.

Julian Simon ( 1932 – 1998 ) is the American economist.

For instance, the prediction of less agricultural soil per capita is a trend that Simon observed in The Ultimate Resource which Simon attributed to long-term rises in agricultural productivity.

His brother, Simon, was the company's Tai-pan from 1983 to 1988 and is the 7th Keswick to be Tai-pan.

* Simon Hawke uses the story as the basis for The Ivanhoe Gambit the first novel in his time travel adventure series TimeWars.

* McKenna, James A .; Leslie, Shane ; and Simon, Howard ( 1936 ) " Story of the Lost Canyon Diggings ", in Black Range Tales: chronicling sixty years of life and adventure in the Southwest Wilson-Erickson, Inc., New York ;

* Leslie Charteris publishes Meet-The Tiger !, the first adventure of Simon Templar, alias The Saint.

Radio stations were asked to participate in Biggers ' Victory Over Violence organization by airing the adventure in which the evil Simon Barsinister develops a Switchpitch baseball to turn positive people negative.

This humorous take on Blake's two-fisted adventures starred Simon Jones as Blake, Wayne Forester as Tinker and a returning William Franklyn, in one of his final performances, as the elderly Blake ( who narrates the adventure ).

In July 2009 Simon Yates successfully led a group of four clients to the summit of Lenin Peak ( 7134m ) for a well-known adventure travel company.

The saga follows a young man named Simon as he is caught up in an epic adventure.

Simon Le Bon said the album " is an adventure story about a little commando team.

Charteris later rewrote the story as a Simon Templar adventure ( it was published in Boodle ) and for most readers, this was their first introduction to Kestry.

Balto is a 1995 American animated adventure film directed by Simon Wells and produced by Amblimation.

Simon the Sorcerer is a series of point-and-click adventure games created by Adventure Soft.

Simon breaks the fourth wall with his comments about adventure games.

* Misterio en la Isla de los Monstruos ( Mystery on Monster Island ) 1980, directed by Juan Piquer Simon, based on a Jules Verne story ( Paul Naschy and Peter Cushing each play a small role in this action adventure, but do not share any scenes ; truly a wasted opportunity )

Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe ( more commonly just Simon the Sorcerer II ) is an adventure game created by Adventure Soft released in 1995.