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The game began with a " toss-up " question for ten points ; the first player to buzz in got the right to answer, but if ( s ) he was wrong, the other team could try to answer ( if a player buzzed in before the host finished reading the question and was wrong, the team was penalized five points ).
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As the twenties grew older, and as radio broadcasts of baseball games began to involve more and more people daily in the doings of the professionals, the great hitters ( always led by Babe Ruth ) overshadowed the game so that pitchers were nearly of no account.
When emulators of 1980s video game consoles began to appear on home computers in the late 1990s, the Atari 7800 was one of the last to be emulated.
His caps record lasted until 1973 when Bobby Moore overtook him, and Charlton currently lies fourth in the all-time England appearances list behind Moore, David Beckham and Peter Shilton, whose own England career began in the first game after Charlton's had ended.
Following work on the second entry in the Resident Evil series, Capcom began work on a Resident Evil game for the new PlayStation 2.
With the rapid advancement of real-time rendering quality, artists began to use game engines to render non-interactive movies.
When the game design phase began in late 1992, the main thematic influences were the science fiction action film Aliens and the horror film Evil Dead II.
Development of EverQuest began in 1996 when Sony Interactive Studios America ( SISA ) executive John Smedley secured funding for a 3D game much like text-based MUDs following the successful launch of Meridian 59 the previous year.
Modern game theory began with the idea regarding the existence of mixed-strategy equilibria in two-person zero-sum games and its proof by John von Neumann.
Banks joined Stoke City and maintained his England place, while Shilton lost in Leicester's third FA Cup final of the 1960s ( the 1969 game against Manchester City ) and began to make his name.
In 1977, Gygax began work on a more comprehensive version of the game, called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
Over the course of the 1950s, as television began to pervade the popular culture, game shows quickly became a fixture.
However, when in 1906 two city teams chose the city's Roman amphitheatre as a venue to showcase the game, crowd enthusiasm and media interest began to rise.
As in the previous season, the Colts began the season undefeated and would go 9 – 0 before losing their first game against the Dallas Cowboys.
As a result, the Id Software team began the development of Commander Keen, a Mario-style side-scrolling game for the PC, once again " borrowing " company computers to work on it at odd hours at the lake house at which they lived in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Additionally, after the last football game of 2009, the university began an expansion of Bridgeforth Stadium that increased seating to a capacity of over 25, 000.
After the project was abandoned, Flare Technology began work on a new project, Flare Two, which was eventually bought by Atari and, after further development, formed the basis for the Atari Jaguar game console.
A community of game modifiers ( modders ), artists, expert players, and film fans began to form around them.
England were nonetheless favourites to win the game and the first ever Test match began with a crowd of only 1000 watching.
Atari eventually streamlined the process and began producing the game in greater quantities.
QTest also gave gamers their first peek into the filesystem and modifiability of the Quake engine, and many entity mods ( that placed monsters in the otherwise empty multiplayer maps ) and custom player skins began appearing online before the full game was even released.
In December, 2003, Cumberland Games began to support the free game with commercial supplements, beginning with the Risus Companion and the founding of the International Order of Risus.
From that point on, however, the Chargers began a six game skid with losses to the Jets, Chiefs, Packers, Raiders, Bears and Broncos with the first four by only a score and against Denver in overtime.
The Chargers then began a three game winning streak most notably beating the Ravens by more than any team has beat them this season.
The Padres ' 2007 season began April 3 in an away game against the San Francisco Giants, winning it 7 – 0 in front of a capacity crowd of 42, 773 at AT & T Park, defeating $ 126 million staff-ace Barry Zito in his Giants debut.
Another Space Quest began development by Escape Factory for the Microsoft Xbox video game console in 2002, entitled simply Space Quest.
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Wild boar watched their progress with little pig eyes, and grunted derision when they didn't consider such game worthy of a shot from the.
Even the dignified Washington indulged in a game of wickets with some children.
the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.
A `` concert of free nations '' should take its inspiration from the traditions of the nineteenth century Concert of Europe with its common values and accepted `` rules of the game ''.
it's a short, light, quick-handling, fast-firing little timber gun designed to push a heavy slug at modest velocity but with lots of killing power and ample range for our most popular big game -- whitetail.
And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.
Would you like to organize Teen Hunters Clubs, shooting programs, and have information on seasons including six months of hunting with unlimited game bags on shooting preserves??
`` Bull tailin' '' was a game once pop'lar with the Mexican cowboys of Texas.
This was a bitterly fought game, carrying almost as much grudge as a fist fight, with no friendliness exhibited between the teams except the formal politeness that accompanied the setting forth of ground rules and agreements on balls that went into the crowd.
Usually she marked the few who did thank you, you didn't get that kind much in a place like this: and she played a little game with herself, seeing how downright rude she could act to the others, before they'd take offense, threaten to call the manager.
-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.
End Gene Raesz, who broke a hand in the Owl's game with LSU, was back working out with Rice Monday, and John Nichols, sophomore guard, moved back into action after a week's idleness with an ankle injury.
The Texans won the game through ball control, with Quarterback Cotton Davidson throwing only 17 passes.
Lemon was on with his fourth single of the game, a liner to center.
Turk Lown was tagged with the loss, his second against no victories, while Ray Moore won his second game against a single loss.
Momentarily the Reds were back in the ball game, trailing only 6-3, but the drive fizzled when John Edwards fouled out with men on second and third and two out.
St. Louis U. was to be in action again today with a game scheduled at 4 against Washington University at Ligget Field.
It is almost axiomatic that golfers who dominate the game of golf for any period of time attack their shots with a vehemence bordering on violence.
Watching her, he felt like a spectator at a tennis game, with the ball being bounced back and forth.
`` You mean a game with cards ''??
The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers ' counter-fire.
As in the original game, the onscreen objects were tinted blue, and a shield that depleted with use replaced the hyperspace feature.
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