During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares (" Apollonian Games ") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius.

The Pythian Games were held in Apollo's honor every four years at Delphi.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

* 1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.

Great Britain also entered a team at the Olympics Games in 1900 and in 1908, but they were organised separately from the Lions.

Many books of type-in programs were also available, and in particular, Ahl published versions of the original 101 BASIC games converted into the Microsoft dialect and published it from Creative Computing as " BASIC Computer Games ".

In classical Greece, celery leaves were used as garlands for the dead, and the wreaths of the winners at the Isthmian Games were first made of celery before being replaced by crowns made of pine.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

Given that the ColecoVision could produce near arcade-quality ports, industry magazines like Electronic Games were unanimous in their enthusiasm over the console.

Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

They were used for the Sydney, Athens, Turin, Beijing, Vancouver and Singapore Youth Olympic Games relays.

They were also used for the Special Olympics Shanghai, Pan American and Central African Games relays.

The first X Games ( known as 1995 Extreme Games ) were held in Newport, Providence, Mount Snow, and Vermont in the United States.

Other honors include his ivory statue as head of procession of the Circus Games ; his posts of priest of Augustus and Augur were to be filled by members of the imperial family ; knights of Rome gave his name to a block of seats in a theatre in Rome.

In the 2010 Commonwealth Games, most of India's male wrestlers were from Haryana.

The Improv Olympics were first demonstrated at Toronto's Homemade Theatre in 1976 and have been continued on as the Canadian Improv Games.

The last time that the Games were held in the United Kingdom was 1948.

The magazine was revived by Imperium Games after GDW folded, and JTAS 25 and 26 were published before that publisher folded itself.

* 1952 – The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.

One of its more famous renditions was by the dignitaries of Manchester's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games, just after they were awarded to Sydney.

In 1984, they were released for the Atari 5200 under the Lucasfilm Games label.

Later ILM and Skywalker Sound were consolidated in Lucas Digital Ltd. and LucasArts became the official name of the former Games Division.

* Gauntlet ( arcade game ), a video game originally produced in 1985 by Atari Games

Kult is a contemporary fantasy horror role-playing game originally designed by Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén, first published in Sweden by Target Games in 1991.

Kult was originally published by the company Target Games in 1991 as a Swedish role-playing game, and has later been translated into several other languages.

TWERPS ( The World's Easiest Role-Playing System ) is a minimalist role-playing game ( RPG ) originally created by Reindeer Games ( whose sole product was the TWERPS line ) and distributed by Gamescience.

In late 1894, the organising committee under Stephanos Skouloudis presented a report that the cost of the Games would be three times higher than originally estimated by Coubertin.

While the Bhaalspawn Saga was originally developed exclusively by BioWare for the Personal Computer, in 2012 Atari revealed that Beamdog and Overhaul Games would remake the games in HD.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure is a graphic adventure game, originally released in 1989 ( to coincide with the release of the film of the same name ), published by Lucasfilm Games ( now LucasArts ).

The Secret of Monkey Island was the fifth Lucasfilm Games project powered by the SCUMM engine, originally developed for Maniac Mansion.

For instance while the Dark Elves have long existed as the main antagonist to the High Elves in Warhammer Fantasy, Games Workshop originally incorporated both High and Dark Elves ' elements into the Craftworld Eldar for the Warhammer 40, 000 universe.

The next week, the Lakewood board of village trustees also approved the event, allowing the Gay Games to take place as originally planned.

Lillehammer originally bid for the 1992 Games, but came fourth in the voting.

Adkison set up a new corporation, Garfield Games, to develop Richard Garfield's collectible card game concept, originally called Manaclash, into Magic: The Gathering.

The 1960 Summer Paralympics, originally known as the 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games, were the first international Paralympic Games, following on from the Stoke Mandeville Games of 1948 and 1952.

Talisman: The Magical Quest Game is a fantasy themed adventure board game for two to six players, originally designed and produced by Games Workshop and now published by Fantasy Flight Games.

The 1940 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XII Olympiad and originally scheduled to be held from 21 September to 6 October 1940, in Tokyo, Japan, were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II.

The 1964 Summer Paralympics, originally known as the 13th International Stoke Mandeville Games, were the 2nd Paralympic Games to be held.

The 1934 Games had originally been awarded to Johannesburg, South Africa, but were changed to London because of concerns ( particularly from Canada ) about the way South Africa would treat black and Asian athletes.

These Games were the first to include Winter events, as had originally been proposed for the Games.

The first episode was broadcast on 12 July 2012 ( in which Satan attempts to show Edith that the ancient Greeks and the original Games were not as altruistic as she originally thought and Thomas ' participation in the Infernal Games ends up a crushing and painful disaster ) and the second on 19 July 2012 ( in which Satan is blackmailed by Edith into taking her to the London Olympics to see her competing grand-niece and discovers that the grand-niece isn't quite as Edith described her and Thomas tries to get himself certified insane to escape further eternal punishment