The earliest known electronic game joystick with a fire button was released by Sega as part of their 1969 arcade game Missile, a shooter simulation game that used it as part of an early dual-control scheme, where two directional buttons are used to move a motorized tank and a two-way joystick is used to shoot and steer the missile onto oncoming planes displayed on the screen ; when a plane is hit, an explosion is animated on screen along with an explosion sound.

One of the earliest " full screen " editors was O26-which was written for the operator console of the CDC 6000 series machines in 1967.

It was also the earliest known arcade game to feature a joystick with a fire button, which was used as part of an early dual-control scheme, where two directional buttons are used to move the player's tank and a two-way joystick is used to shoot and steer the missile onto oncoming planes displayed on the screen ; when a plane is hit, an explosion is animated on screen along with an explosion sound.

Her earliest theatrical influences were the teenaged actress Deanna Durbin, screen star Irene Dunne and Lansbury's mother, who encouraged her daughter's ambition by taking her to plays at the Old Vic.

She made her earliest screen appearances in the early 1980s with small roles in episodes of CHiPs, 240-Robert, and Eight Is Enough, before beginning a long-term collaboration with Aaron Spelling.

Horton's screen character was instantly defined from his earliest talkies: pleasant and dignified, but politely hesitant when faced with a potentially embarrassing situation.

This is perhaps one of the earliest portrayals of sexual harassment on the animated screen, and was very daring at a time when such subject matter was considered taboo.

A screenshot of the earliest known version of Scorched Earth, which displays the developer's screen name " Sprig " as the author.

The others were Tin Men ( 1987 ), a story of aluminum-siding salesmen in the 1960s starring Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito ; the immigrant family saga Avalon ( which featured Elijah Wood in one of his earliest screen appearances ), and Liberty Heights ( 1999 ).

In response to this, Robinett placed a hidden object in the game that would allow the player to reach a hidden screen which displayed the words " Created by Warren Robinett ," hence creating one of the earliest known Easter eggs in a video game, and the first to which the name " Easter egg " was applied.

In the earliest episodes, a clock was even shown in the corner of the screen.

The following year, they released Western Gun, a run and gun multi-directional shooter that was the earliest known video game to visually represent game characters as sprites, as well as the first to depict a gun on screen.

His feature films were rarely box office successes, but they often feature large well-known casts ( such as 1978's The Betsy, starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Duvall ), and his films are among the earliest screen appearances by such stars as Winona Ryder ( Square Dance ) and Kiefer Sutherland ( The Bay Boy ).

Emma also starred Myrna Loy in one of her earliest screen performances.

Donkey Kong is considered to be the earliest video game with a storyline that visually unfolded on screen.

One of his earliest screen appearances was in the 1942 Our Gang comedy Melodies Old and New.

The X Window System was one of the earliest systems to include support for an arbitrary image as wallpaper via the xsetroot program, which at least as early as the X10R3 release in 1985 could tile the screen with any solid color or any binary-image X BitMap file .< ref > X10R3, X. org downloads,: xsetroot program attributed to " Tony Della Fera, DEC ", dated " 28-Nov-84 ".</ ref > In 1989, a free software program called xgifroot was released that allowed an arbitrary color GIF image to be used as wallpaper, and in the same year the free xloadimage program was released which could display a variety of image formats ( including color images in Sun Rasterfile format ) as the desktop background.

But, even in the movie's earliest scenes, Pfeiffer suggests that Lurene has hidden depth ; not unrevealed smarts, really, but innate decency and guilelessness ... She's fully alive up there on the screen: a grounded angel, tarnished, funny and exquisitely soulful, even when the movie is dead.

Among her earliest screen appearances was a role in the teen movie Where the Boys Are ( 1960 ) as well as in George Pal's film version of H. G. Wells ' 1895 novel The Time Machine ( also 1960 ) co-starring Rod Taylor, in which she played the character Weena.

Strongheart was the screen name of Etzel von Oeringen ( October 1, 1917-June 24, 1929 ), a male German Shepherd who became one of the earliest canine film stars.

One of his earliest big screen roles was in Jude ( 1996 ), in which he shared a scene with Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect.

One of his earliest screen appearances was in an episode of The Twilight Zone ( 1959 ), in which he co-starred with Rod Taylor.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

These hits were followed by the success of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, who had been one of the earliest freestyle acts.

* The first half of Miguel de Cervantes's landmark novel Don Quixote (" El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha " or " The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha ") — one of the earliest novels in the western literary tradition, is published and becomes Cervantes's first literary success.

Offenbach's earliest one-act pieces included Les deux aveugles, Le violoneux and Ba-ta-clan ( all 1855 ), and his first full-length operetta success was Orphée aux enfers ( 1858 ).

Around the time of the release of Texasville, Bogdanovich also revisited his earliest success, The Last Picture Show, and produced a slightly modified director's cut.

One of the most celebrated of the earliest agricultural applications developed by Lysenko was a process of increasing the success of wheat crops by soaking the grain and storing the wet seed in snow to refrigerate over the winter (" vernalization ").

The earliest magazine about Boy's Love was June, which began in 1978 as a response to the success of commercially published manga such as the works of Keiko Takemiya, Moto Hagio and Yumiko Ōshima.

His success as a writer was coeval with his earliest publication ; his Comical Tales in verse, poems that recall the Broad Grins that Colman the younger brought out a decade later, took the town by storm, and the struggling young poet found himself a popular favourite at twenty-one.

Some of his success could be attributed to one of his earliest fans, John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, who wrote letters to many noblemen and gentlemen recommending Garrick's acting.

It enjoyed some success as one of the earliest open source tools developed for feature motion picture visual effects and animation work.

His earliest notable success was made in A Pantomime Rehearsal, a short play ( parodying incompetent amateur theatricals ) with which he was associated for many years.

As home to the Lovin ' Spoonful, one of the earliest folk rock bands to find international success, the group thought the label would be the ideal home for their music.

Her second album, SLA2 / Be Sample ( 1992 ), was one of the earliest Brazilian pop records to extensively employ the sampler, and had success with Rio 40 Graus, composed with Fausto Fawcett and Laufer, portraying Rio de Janeiro climate, people and lifestyle.

In Australia, winemakers found little early success with Nebbiolo as many of the earliest plantings were in sites that turned out to be too warm for the grape.

" His grandest beneficence, however, was to Baltimore ; the city in which he achieved his earliest success.

The continued success and profitability of its earliest projects caused the railway to decide to electrify all remaining London suburban lines in 1913.

During the war, especially from 1942 on, the Polish Government in Exile provided the Allies with some of the earliest and most accurate accounts of the ongoing Holocaust of European Jews and, through its representatives, like the Foreign Minister Count Edward Raczynski and the courier of the Polish Underground movement, Jan Karski, called for action, without success, to stop it.

Possibly the greatest success in the practice of music at the school is its rock society, which can count the likes of Bruce Dickinson among its earliest members.

One of the earliest musical comedies, Go-Bang, was a success at the theatre in 1894.

Its success prompted other young teachers to try their hand at fiction writing, thus launching one of the earliest literary movements in sub-Saharan Africa.

His earliest musical success came with the song " Daddy " which was a regional hit in 1941.

As well as having important applications for scientific research, the earliest inventions received immediate popular success as methods for producing moving pictures, and the principle was used for numerous toys.

From the earliest days of the war the Italian Socialist Party and the Swiss Social Democratic Party had sought a meeting of the full Bureau in an effort to coordinate international socialist opinion and action with respect to the war, without success.

Although they were one of the earliest and most important San Francisco bands to emerge from 1967's social phenomenon Summer of Love, the band never quite achieved the success of contemporaries such as The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Santana, with whom they had connections.