Some of the late 90s / early 2000s games were under development by other companies at one time, but rights to the game programs and all of the existing code was bought and finished by other developers.

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

Some games ( chess being the classic example ) are perfect information games: every player has complete information on the state of the game.

Some games involve commanding multiple game pieces ( or units ), such as chess pieces or Monopoly houses and hotels, that have unique designations and capabilities within the parameters of the game ; in other games, such as Go, all pieces controlled by a player have the same capabilities.

Some are played primarily throughout one geographic region, and others add new tactical elements to the game.

Some MASN telecasts in conflict with Nationals ' game telecasts air on an alternate MASN2 feed.

Some songs from special events include " One Moment in Time " for Cal Ripken's record-breaking game.

Some matching-type games are also shedding-type games ; some variants of Rummy such as Phase 10 and Rummikub, as well as the children's game Old Maid, fall into both categories.

Some of these games, such as Pyramid from Battlestar Galactica, become real card games as the holder of the intellectual property develops and markets a suitable deck and ruleset for the game, while others, such as " Exploding Snap " from the Harry Potter franchise, lack sufficient descriptions of rules, or depend on cards or other hardware that are infeasible or physically impossible.

Some early sources refer to pall mall being played over a large distance ( as in golf ), however an image in Strutt's 1801 book clearly shows a croquet-like ground billiards game ( balls on ground, hoop, bats and peg ) being played over a, garden-sized distance.

Some mods add bots, while others remove features of the game, and others create different modes of play.

Some of Sappenfield's acquaintances are known to have brought the game to UC Berkeley.

Some of the menu items related to game backups were removed from the V64's BIOS near the end of its life due to pressure from Nintendo.

Some publications credit Yale All-American Paul Veeder with the " first forward pass in a major game.

Some hunters, however, do their hunting in areas of dense cover where long guns would be awkward, or they relish the increased challenge involved in handgun hunting due to the necessity of approaching the game animal more closely.

Some eye protection products are rated to withstand impact from birdshot loads, which offers protection against irresponsible firearms use by other game bird shooters.

Some of the mechanics, like hidden scoring or scoring at the end of the game, are also designed around this avoidance of player elimination.

Some publishers design games that contain instructions and game elements in more than one language, e. g. the game Ursuppe comes with rules and cards in both German and English ; Khronos features instructions in French, English, and German, and a Swiss game, Enchanted Owls, provides French, German, Italian, and Romansh rules.

Some try to change the game as little as possible, such as Rio Grande Games.

Some players begin with no diagram at all, and drawing the individual elements of the gallows as part of the game, effectively giving the guessing players more chances.

Some modifications to game play to increase difficulty level are sometimes implemented, such as limiting guesses on high-frequency consonants and vowels.

Some newer game consoles, such as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, had publishing policies which mandated the use of anti-aliasing in all games released for them.

Some of the most popular are the Tony Hawk series and Skate series for various consoles ( Including hand-held ) and personal computer.

Some other popular first-person shooters during the 2000s include the Medal of Honor series, with Medal of Honor: Frontline's release in 2002 bringing the first game in the series to 7th generation consoles.

Some video game consoles also have the ability to function with a keyboard and a mouse.

Some devices that connect to a TV, such as VCRs, older video game consoles and home computers of the 1980s, output a composite signal.

Some console manufacturers included the option to run homebrew software or even an alternative operating system on their consoles, however, these features have mostly been withdrawn again.

Some 2D graphics skills have just recently become useful again, though, for developing games for the new generation of cell phones, PDAs and handheld game consoles.

Some unlicensed titles for game consoles used dongles to connect to officially licensed cartridges, in order to circumvent the authentication chip embedded in the console.

Some PC BIOSes, especially in servers, also support serial consoles, giving access to the BIOS through a serial port so that the simpler and cheaper serial console infrastructure can be used.

Some video game consoles such as the Famicom / NES did not allow any graphics changes except during the retrace ( the period when the electron guns shut off and return to the upper left corner of the screen ).

Some clones of Japanese consoles such as the Sega Saturn ( cloned by Samsung ) and Nintendo 64 ( cloned by Hyundai ) were holders of minor market shares.

Some mixing consoles designed for houses of worship have automatic mixers, which turn down unused channels to reduce noise, and automatic feedback elimination circuits which detect and notch out frequencies that are feeding back.

Some of these refurbished organs have had their original electro-pneumatic relays replaced with electronic and / or computerized relays and modern, electronic consoles.

Some devices, such as two-way radio remote control consoles, can reverse the polarity of currents and can multiplex audio onto a DC current.

Some mixing consoles come equipped with VCAs in each channel for console automation.

Some incorrectly speculate it was used as an attempt to help classify the PS2 as a computer to achieve tax exempt status from certain EU taxes that apply to game consoles and not computers ( It was the Yabasic included with EU units that was intended to do that ).

Some ( mostly older ) video game consoles and computers use nonstandard color burst phases and may produce dot crawl quite different from that seen in broadcast NTSC or PAL.

Some include language translators or serial connectors, so there is a wide variety of consoles to be used.

Some of these consoles resemble the original PlayStation, others the PSone redesign, and others the PlayStation 2.

Some fully functional computer systems or game consoles have been built into some models of TVs over time.

Some rumors have hinted that if it is released on consoles, it may see a release on next-gen systems: Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Some vertically aligned tray-loading devices, such as the older pre-slimline PlayStation 2 consoles when placed vertically, require an adapter for use with 80 mm CDs.

** Some lines from above consoles, as well as Hokuriku Main Line, Hakodate Main Line, Keikyū Main Line, Keikyū Airport Line and Chicago ' L ' Brown Line.