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espionage and role-playing
* HackNoia, a modern-day espionage role-playing game like TSR's Top Secret.
Genre-defining titles attributed to Konami include the vampire-hunting side scroller Castlevania series, the survival horror Silent Hill series, the action / shooter Contra series, the platform / adventure Ganbare Goemon series, the espionage action Metal Gear series, the console role-playing Suikoden series, the music-oriented Bemani series ( which includes Dance Dance Revolution, Beatmania, GuitarFreaks, DrumMania, and Pop ' n Music, among others ) and the dating simulation Tokimeki Memorial series.
* Modus-Operandi-The espionage role-playing game resource
Initially, all RPGA events were for TSR products, primarily Advanced Dungeons & Dragons but also the Top Secret ( espionage ) and Gamma World ( science fantasy ) role-playing games.
Following this role-playing game into a modern era with an emphasis on military hardware and espionage wetware is Delta Green, in which characters fight the conspiracies behind which the Mythos hides rather than facing the Mythos more directly.

espionage and game
A game in which the blood-stained legacy of Nazi Germany is enmeshed in the intricate moves of cold war espionage.
Using secrecy to combat industrial espionage had failed to stop rival companies from reverse engineering the Mattel and Atari systems and hiring away their trained game programmers.
Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.
The game setting, which is detailed in a number of supplements, allows for a variety of styles, from cyberpunk-like corporate espionage to Mad Max-style post-holocaust frontier adventure, to space exploration.
The turn-based aspect of the game focuses on a map of Japan where military force, religion, diplomacy, espionage and economics all influence the player's actions, whilst battles are fought in a 3D real-time mode.
The game puts the player in the position of a Japanese daimyo with the objective of conquering Japan through military might, diplomacy, espionage, trade, and religion-thereby taking the position of shogun.
Settling in Washington, D. C., he wrote a book about Cold War espionage entitled The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West, a more recent book Spymaster in 2008, and collaborated with former CIA Director William Colby and Activision to produce Spycraft: The Great Game, a CD-ROM game released in 1996.
A successful mission depends highly on morale, skill and armament, so early in the game espionage is much harder to achieve without the troops being captured by the Harkonnens.
On each turn, the player decides what diplomatic, espionage and military actions to take with regard to the other countries in the game, and then ends the turn.
The optimal game approach seems to be to take Egypt out immediately with a perfect surprise attack using a single brigade to push the war right to the Egyptian side, followed by invading Lebanon before it collapses and Jordan before anyone else invades it, while attempting to topple Iran by espionage ( to prevent nuclear war with Iraq ) and then, finally, invading and defeating Syria.
Davey is a lonely child and is still grieving over his mother, so he immerses himself in the fantasy world of Cloak & Dagger, an espionage game which exists in both role playing and video forms.
Davey is interested in the world of espionage and his hero is the character Jack Flack from the game.
Adventure Classic Gaming stated that, though the game has some " annoying flaws ," it " can be quite charming to play if you seek to experience the thrill of being a high-tech spy infiltrating an enemy stronghold in a foreign land ," and that it " offers up a decent story and interesting characters set in an alternate reality of cold war espionage.
" Those who want action instead of fiction will find the game somewhat dull, but those who appreciate an original story and great atmosphere will find In Cold Blood to be a satisfying blend of espionage and science fiction.
Apart from the legal tactics described below, the " fair game " activities included break-ins, libel, upsetting the companies of the enemy, espionage, harassment, misuse of confidential communications in the folders of community members and so forth.
The book relates the life of Adrian Healey, a public school and Oxbridge educated man who excels at lying and, along with other characters, forming an old boy's club, partakes in a makebelieve espionage game solely to avert boredom.
Adrian then enters the espionage game set up by his mentor, Trefusis, and his uncle, David.
Adrian joins Trefusis in his forced sabbatical which nominally is spent studying the fricative shift in English, but in actuality is spent in a game of espionage where they are to acquire the parts for Mendax ( Latin adjective meaning " lying, deceptive "), a lie inhibiting device from his Hungarian friend Szabó and his two nephews.
Subsequently Adrian overhears a conversation between Trefusis and David where it is revealed that several parts of the story were not true and that the espionage adventure was just a game to counter boredom.

espionage and Secret
Secret codes intended to obscure the real messages, ranging from serious ( mainly espionage in military, diplomatic, business, etc.
Examples are Ashenden or: the British Agent ( 1928 ) by W. Somerset Maugham, about counter-revolutionary British espionage against Bolshevik Russia, and The Mystery of Tunnel 51 ( 1928 ) by Alexander Wilson whose novels conveyed an uncanny portrait of the first head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the original ' C '.
* Secret agent, spy involved in espionage.
She had in fact been recruited by the British Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ), although she turned away from her espionage duties in order to help Allied soldiers escape.
* The Circus, a nickname for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service ( or MI6 ), originally coined by John le Carré in his espionage novels.
The first floor provides the atrium mezzanine, education facilities, and a permanent gallery, Secret War, exploring special forces, espionage and covert operations.
The Confederacy ’ s Signal Corps was devoted primarily to communications and intercepts, but it also included a covert agency called the Confederate Secret Service Bureau, which ran espionage and counter-espionage operations in the North including two networks in Washington.
Notable alumni include Roxana Saberi, who was charged with espionage by Iran and later released in 2009, Clint Hill, the United States Secret Service agent who is credited with saving the life of Jacqueline Kennedy during the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Sidney Rand, former United States Ambassador to Norway and President of St. Olaf College, Cynthia L. Bauerly, member of the Federal Election Commission, Alan Bjerga, president of the National Press Club, Jim Christopherson, former linebacker and placekicker for the Minnesota Vikings, Gary Larsen, defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings, Chris Coste, former Major league baseball catcher and infielder, Coya Knutson, former United States congresswoman, Ole H. Olson, former Governor of North Dakota, Adolph Murie, a biologist who was the first scientist to study wolves in their natural habitat.
Its Secret Intelligence division was responsible for espionage, while its Jedburgh teams, a joint U. S .- UK-French unit, were forerunners of groups that create guerrilla units, such as the U. S. Army Special Forces and the CIA.
Despite the commercial success of his work, Lyall began to feel that he was falling into a predicable pattern, and abandoned both his earlier genres, and the first-person narrative, for his “ Harry Maxim " series of espionage thrillers beginning with The Secret Servant published in 1980.
In 1933, King Features assigned him to do the art for an espionage action-adventure strip, Secret Agent X-9, scripted by novelist Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond's illustrative approach to that strip made him King Features ' leading talent.
Israeli journalist Yossi Melman, who specializes in espionage stories, reported that based on his research with Dan Raviv ( released in their book Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars, ISBN 0985437812 ), Israel did not kill Arafat.
When the show was taken over by Ovaltine, the origin story explained how Albright was recruited to head the Secret Squadron, an aviation-oriented paramilitary organization fighting sabotage and espionage during the period prior to the United States ' entry into World War II.
* Captain Midnight -- World War I aviator who leads the Secret Squadron, though he spends much time in the field actively contending with crime, espionage, and sabotage.
The Secret Service is a British children's espionage television series, made by Century 21 for ITC Entertainment and broadcast on Associated Television in 1969.
His first contact with espionage occurred in 1936 when he had been briefly employed by the Secret Intelligence Service to provide information on what he had seen in the German shipyards.
In his 1980 autobiography Ways of Escape, Greene wrote that his aim with this book was " to write a novel of espionage free from the conventional violence, which has not, in spite of James Bond, been a feature of the British Secret Service.

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