Like many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players.

The ability to create custom scenarios contributed significantly to the game's popularity ( see the section on WADs, below ).

To promote Windows 95, Bill Gates, aware of the video game's popularity, showcased a video presentation while digitally superimposed into Doom.

The game's popularity prompted Bill Gates to briefly consider buying id Software, and led Microsoft to develop a Windows 95 port of Doom to promote the operating system as a gaming platform.

In addition to the thrilling nature of the single-player game, the deathmatch mode was an important factor in the game's popularity.

Originally, the deck had to be composed by combining two poker, piquet or euchre decks and removing unneeded cards ( a piquet deck does not have the 2-6, making it easier to modify, and a euchre deck is exactly half a pinochle deck ), but with the game's popularity in the United States in the early 1900s, a single boxed deck with the necessary cards was marketed, and these specialized pinochle decks are now widely available in similar styles to common 52-card counterparts.

The game's popularity grew and moved to using a ballroom for games with 60 or more players aside.

In North America, the game's popularity peaked in 1984, a year in which over 20 million games were sold.

At the height of the game's popularity, many gaming conventions and gaming clubs sponsored Car Wars tournaments where finalist players could win real world prizes.

The new game's unusual marketing, scattering the game across several redundant products, met with mixed responses and the game's popularity has continued to wane.

Because of the game's popularity, rumors about glitches and secrets spread rapidly after its release.

Because of the game's popularity, five other versions of the game were developed for the market: Tournament Arkanoid and Revenge of Doh ( Arkanoid II ) both in 1987, Arkanoid-Doh It Again and Arkanoid Returns both in 1997, Arkanoid DS in 2007, Arkanoid Live, and, most recently, Arkanoid Plus!

The game's reception was mixed, particularly due to the popularity of a PS2 Transformers game released at the same time for a Japanese-exclusive market, though the Armada game was of a higher quality and featured much better gameplay.

Germans were instrumental in fostering the game's popularity as they formed their own bowling clubs both before and after the American Civil War.

One of the features which sets this game apart from many others ( and has no doubt been responsible for the game's popularity ) is its ' hidden depths '.

It can be played by two human players simultaneously in split screen or in a single player mode against the game's artificial intelligence, although the game's popularity is derived mostly from the fast-paced player-vs .- player action it provides.

The game's rise to popularity in the U. S. came during World War II, when it was introduced by soldiers from its birthplace in Cincinnati, Ohio to various military stations around the world.

The game's popularity in the armed forces stems from its simplicity compared to Bridge and Euchre and the fact that it can be more easily interrupted than Poker, all of which were also popular military card games.

Elite received very good reviews on its launch and sales of the BBC Micro version eventually reached 150, 000 sold copies. The game's popularity became a national phenomenon in the UK, with reports airing on Channel 4 and elsewhere.

The game's popularity has led to labels such as " Halo clone " and " Halo killer ," applied respectively to games either similar to or anticipated to be better than it.

The game's popularity has declined with the increase in motorway travel, where long car journeys typically bypass towns, hardly ever passing a public house.

This was compounded by the game's popularity.

The game's innovation was that " owners " in a Rotisserie league would draft teams from the list of active Major League Baseball players and would follow their statistics during the ongoing season to compile their scores.

The third revision of the rules, Mage: The Ascension Revised, made significant changes to the rules and setting, mainly to update Mage with respect to its own ongoing storyline, particularly in regards to events that occurred during the run of the game's second edition.

Computer and Video Games suggest that this initial emphasis on creating a two player experience is the reason for the game's horizontal split-screen during single player modes.

Also, during the game's third Special Operation ( inspired in the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline ), the Phoenix Force is hosted by Colossus, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik and Jean Grey herself ( as the Dark Phoenix ); the game's Phoenix Five ( which has Jean as their fifth member, while the original storyline has Namor as the fifth host ) can either be the player's allies or enemies depending on which side s / he chooses in the conflict.

Hal Jordan appears as a playable character and one of the game's major protagonists ; the Guardians appear in the game's Oa based stage, and the rest of the Corps members are mentioned to be trying to contain the universe wide crisis taking place during Story Mode.

Although legend attributes the game's creation to Stephen de Vignolles, also known as La Hire, a knight in the reign of Charles VII during the Hundred Years ' War, it may possibly have come into France from Spain because the words " pique " and " repique ", the main features of the game, are of Spanish origin.

A number of teams formed in the Richmond area during the game's rapid expansion of the 1870s and early 1880s.

According to STI director Roger Hector, Michael Jackson was initially brought in during development to compose music for the game, even though no mention of his involvement was included in any of the game's credits.

Wells was considered to be one of the game's better left-handed pitchers, especially during his years with the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays.

There were supplemental materials released during the game's publication.

However, the game consistently fell from this ranking during its seventh week in arcades that Atari tracked the game's success.

The entrance to the Kingsway Tunnel is used as the basis of a tunnel entrance in the video game Grand Theft Auto III — during the 1990s, several members of the game's development team had worked for the Merseyside-based development company Psygnosis.

The game's melodies were created with the intention that short segments of music could be endlessly repeated during the same gameplay without causing boredom.

According to the game's background, the Tremere are one of the youngest vampire clans, having just come into existence during the Dark Ages.

The event had two parts, it began with a Wizard-only dinner ( during which experiences of BatMUD were shared by the 45 attending coders, honouring game's past ), after which the 340 + players who had signed for the free event were allowed entrance.

Falco does not appear during the majority of Star Fox Adventures, as he could not be properly integrated into the plot in time for the game's release.

A level editor allows players to create their own puzzle levels to share with others, and thousands of levels were uploaded to Sega's online service during the game's lifetime.

* Very few first-class matches are played worldwide during the 1918 – 19 season but the County Championship is reintroduced in the 1919 English season to progress the game's post-war recovery.

The game's innovation was that " owners " in a Rotisserie league would draft teams from the list of active Major League Baseball players and would follow their statistics " during the ongoing season " to compile their scores.

The game's success inspired arcade machines to become prevalent in mainstream locations such as shopping malls, traditional storefronts, restaurants and convenience stores during the golden age.

The game's voice synthesizer generates speech for the robots during certain in-game events: