Besides the primary function, all of the weapons in the game have one or two additional function modes that generally grant the player with special abilities, such as the X-ray function of the Shockwave Rifle or the cloak mode of the Plasma Rifle, which renders the playable character completely invisible to enemies at cost of its ammunition.

In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins under the brand names Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Shockwave, and Macromedia Flash.

The actual term " worm "' was first used in John Brunner's 1975 novel, The Shockwave Rider.

A version called Faceball 3000, written in Shockwave, was also available.

According to comic book writer and editor Bob Budiansky, The Transformers character Shockwave was inspired by Spock.

The town was damaged by an F4 tornado that was featured on an episode of Shockwave on the History Channel.

The clone believed itself to be the real thing and was salvaged by Shockwave, who brainwashed the clone and unleashed it on Galvatron.

Soon after, The Ark was stolen by Shockwave and Starscream ( as well as a stowaway Galvatron from a parallel universe ).

CompuServe was the first company to integrate Shockwave.

Shockwave, Scorponok, Bludgeon, and Ratbat all led the Decepticons, often overthrowing Megatron in the process or taking over the group during the period when Megatron was believed dead.

In 1990, as part of a ride rotation program, a stand up looping roller coaster called Shockwave was added to the park.

At the end of 1992 the roller coaster Shockwave was removed as part of the " Ride Rotation Program " of Six Flags.

San Diego Shockwave were declared the official league champion, however, an unofficial championship game was played by Wyoming Cavalry and Fayetteville Guard, with Fayetteville winning.

Burton stated in an interview that Shockwave was by far his favorite character to perform in the original show.

Amongst the bands he promoted was the heavy metal band Shockwave from The Hague.

In the episode " Shockwave ", Captain Jonathan Archer is briefly transported to the 31st century in an alternate timeline in which the United Federation of Planets was never established.

In 2000, a web-based version of Defender, along with nine other classic arcade games, was published on Shockwave. com.

In the next year, another children's area, known as Nickelodeon Splat City, opened near the Shockwave roller coaster, this was a product of Viacom purchasing Paramount in 1994.

Hence, when the Ark crashed on Earth four million years ago, it was followed down to the planet by the Decepticon Shockwave, who touched down in the prehistoric region of Antarctica known as the Savage Land.

In 1984, when Shockwave was accidentally reactivated by an Autobot probe and took command of the Decepticons from Megatron, Autobot medic Ratchet entered into an uneasy alliance with the deposed Decepticon leader, agreeing to recover the Dinobots so that they might defeat Shockwave again.

Count Nefaria knocks down Force and Shockwave, but was defeated by Iron Man.

It was later revealed by Pepper to Tony upon going into the FBI Database that Force and Shockwave worked for the Maggia before being outfitted with the Guardsmen armor by Obadiah Stane which meant to Tony that Force and Shockwave had Count Nefaria fake a bank robbery all along.

This usage was changed to the backronym Small Web Format to eliminate confusion with a different technology, Shockwave, from which SWF was derived.

* The History Channel distributed a documentary named Shockwave ; a portion of Episode 7 ( originally aired January 25, 2008 ) detailed the events of the crash.

Presently, it most commonly refers to a scripting language developed by John H. Thompson for use in Adobe Director ( formerly Macromedia Director ), used for regular desktop applications, interactive kiosks, CD-ROMs and Adobe Shockwave internet sites.

The conferences also featured a simulated energy wargame called Oil Shockwave, developed by non-profit groups Securing America's Future Energy ( SAFE ) and the National Commission on Energy Policy.

The Shockwave Flash version was developed by Ori Adam for the Israeli Air Force in 2001, then redistributed on the Internet.

Hijiacking a shuttle belonging to the Autobot Wheeljack, Ravage returned to Cybertron and set about locating the Kronosphere, a Decepticon time-machine developed by Shockwave.

As the CD-ROM market began to decline and the World Wide Web gained in popularity, Macromedia created Shockwave, a Director-viewer plugin for web browsers, but decided it also needed to expand its market by branching out into web-native media tools.

* 1997: Keyur Patel, Lead Partner of KPMG Worldwide, became the first consultant to engage in Macromedia and create its first footprint in Web, changing the global software dynamic for " software downloads " and creating one of the world first and largest portals for Flash and Shockwave along with all products.

After a human collaborator named Alexi Voshkod leads NEST to Chernobyl where they retrieve an engine part from the Ark, the Decepticons reemerge for the first time since Egypt in the form of Shockwave and his Driller who attack, but retreat.

In July 2000, Midway licensed Root Beer Tapper, along with other Williams Electronics games, to Macromedia for use in an online applet to demonstrate the power of the Shockwave web content platform, entitled Shockwave Arcade Collection.

For example, she once pretended to be a slave when Ferengi pirates hijacked the Enterprise ( Acquisition ), distracted a group of Suliban invaders by acting deranged ( Shockwave ( Part II )), and pretended to be a domineering Vulcan commander preparing for an execution ( Precious Cargo ).

At the Shockwave NME Awards on 25 February 2009, Barât stated that the pair were still The Libertines, while Doherty admitted that he had tried to " twist arm " about a reformation, before saying " 2010 " for a possible date.

* San Diego Shockwave – Has announced going on hiatus for 2008 but plans on joining another league for 2009

John Brunner's 1975 novel The Shockwave Rider is notable for coining the word " worm " to describe a computer program that propagates itself through a computer network, used as a weapon in the novel.

The finals were held at Pride Shockwave 2005, with the winners subsequently being crowned as champions for their division.

Seeking to bolster the size of his forces on Earth in 1985, Decepticon Commander Shockwave arranged for the construction of six new Decepticon bodies, which were then infused with life by the power of the Creation Matrix, tapped from the head of the imprisoned Optimus Prime.

Games are mainly represented in the browser plugins Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Shockwave, or Java and require browser support for these plugins.

She was a writer and performer for the science fiction comedy radio program Shockwave Radio Theater.

In July 2000, Midway licensed Defender II, along with other Williams Electronics games, to Shockwave for use in an online applet to demonstrate the power of the Shockwave web content platform, entitled Shockwave Arcade Collection.

In the U. S. comics, Starscream went on from his rebirth as a Pretender to join up with Shockwave in instigating the Decepticon Civil War, and was transported to Cybertron along with all the other Transformers in preparation for the battle against Unicron.

Desperate for troops and in spite of his own misgivings about doing so, Megatron then reactivated Starscream ( considering his only other choice was Shockwave, Megatron still felt he had made a good decision ).

However, the Great Shutdown meant his plans could go no further — until Unicron's servant Scourge located Cybertron and reactivated Shockwave for study.