The prototype was given to engineer Howard Delman, who refined it, productized it, and then added additional features for Atari's first vector game, Lunar Lander.

* Another Wright game, Spore, features bubbled cities that serve the same function.

If a correct signature was located on the cartridge, the 7800 would operate in 7800 mode, granting the game access to MARIA and other features.

The 2007 Ubisoft game, " Assassin's Creed ," features Altaïr ibn-La ' Ahad as the main character.

The 2005 video game adaptation features levels called Pelham, Tremont, and " Gunhill " ( a play off the name Gun Hill Road ).

The Nintendo game, StarTropics, for the NES features many references to and depictions of the Southern Cross.

The video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas features a casino named " Caligulas Palace " ( A spoof of Caesar's Palace ) in the Las Venturas region of the in-game world.

Some mods add bots, while others remove features of the game, and others create different modes of play.

The video game Emperor: Battle for Dune, whose in-game cut scenes are visually inspired by David Lynch's film, features a character named Baron Rakan Harkonnen, portrayed by Michael McShane.

* The video game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings features Draugs as an enemy.

Aside from the single player game mode, Doom features two multiplayer modes playable over a network: " cooperative ", in which two to four players team up, and " deathmatch ", in which two to four players play against each other.

Designer Tom Hall wrote an elaborate design document called the Doom Bible, according to which the game would feature a detailed storyline, multiple player characters, and a number of interactive features.

The advance from id Software's previous game Wolfenstein 3D was enabled by several new features in the Doom engine:

The game features a wide range of monsters, some of which are aliens, other mutated humans ( the LAPD has been turned into " Pig-cops ", a play on the derogatory term " pig " for police officers, with LARD emblazoned on their uniforms ).

The game also features co-operative play ( co-op ) which allows players to complete the story based single player mode together.

This version features the ability to " rewind " the game to any prior point upon dying, save clips of gameplay, and play co-operatively online, as well as the standard " Dukematch " online mode.

Often, these expanded versions, also referred as " complete editions ", will have additions to the gameplay or additional game modes and features outside the main portion of the game.

As is the case with certain high-profile Japanese-produced games, the game designers may take the liberty to revise their product for the overseas market with additional features during the localization process.

These features are later added back to the native market in a re-release of a game in what is often referred as the international version of the game.

Expansions are purchased separately and provide additional content to the game ( for example: raising the maximum character level ; adding new races, classes, zones, continents, quests, equipment, game features ).

The game was published in a box, the rules books features fake bar codes and Comics Code approval badges.

The video game King of Dragon Pass was released by A Sharp, allowing the player to play an Orlanthi hero who seeks to unite the clans and tribes of Dragon Pass in a kingdom ; the game features exceptional depth of coverage of the area of Dragon Pass, and featured the first compelling public view of Stafford's ideas about the hero quest.

The game design rationale for requiring the snap to be a quick and continuous motion to the backfield is to eliminate the need for rules provisions for a live ball in scrimmage.

Von Neumann's original proof used Brouwer's fixed-point theorem on continuous mappings into compact convex sets, which became a standard method in game theory and mathematical economics.

Further time improvements of the continuous whole game run were achieved into the 21st century.

Another variant some states use with the " continuous clock " rule allows coaches and game officials to choose to end a game at their own discretion any time during the second half, especially if a lopsided margin continues to increase or threatening weather strikes.

# In the " continuous " variant, whenever a vertical set of blocks has been cleared and the remaining blocks have shifted to one side, a new, randomly-selected column of blocks will pop up on the other side, thereby allowing a game to be played for an extended amount of time.

In the first game, the player must find a pogo stick, which is used for a continuous jump.

While arcade games were still relatively popular during the 1990s, this type of media saw a continuous decline in popularity in the Western world when video game consoles made the transition from 2D to 3D.

This is why a video game with a frame rate of 25-30 frames per second will seem staggered, while natural motion filmed at the same frame rate appears rather more continuous.

The main criticism of the game was its repetitive gameplay, as many enemies can be overcome by continuous rapid pressing of one button.

However, the game remains continuous and does not stop to allow substitutions.

Another trait Land has in common with other video game composers is his ability to compose music that remains listenable when played on a continuous loop.

One important point to note is that gameplay is not continuous ; i. e., players do not do a variety of missions within a single game scenario.

Thoughtwave ( board game ) — A simple track laying game, where each of two players has the same set of tiles to use to lay a continuous track across a board, while blocking your opponent, or making them run out of necessary tiles.

After the release of Final Fantasy III, Tanaka wanted to help design a game with a more interactive battle system that is continuous with the field screen.

The MMORPG Star Trek Online is set in the year 2409 and during the beta period and tutorial in 2009 the game stardates began with 86, continuous with the stardates of TNG and its spin-offs, so that they corresponded to dates exactly 400 years in the future.

The first game to use a continuous background soundtrack was Tomohiro Nishikado's Space Invaders, released by Taito in 1978.

The first video game to feature continuous, melodic background music was Rally-X, released by Namco in 1980, featuring a simple tune that repeats continuously during gameplay.

The Golden Gophers ' most notable rivalry is the annual college-football game between them and the Wisconsin Badgers ( University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wisconsin ) for Paul Bunyan's Axe, the longest continuous rivalry in NCAA Division I football.

Since then, most of the game's faithful community has moved its activities to the new site and work has gone into producing " virtual sets " of cards to provide continuous new blood to the game.

During the 1940s and 1950s, the pocket billiards game most often played in competition was called straight pool, or 14. 1 continuous, a form of pool considered by most top players to be more difficult than today's fast tournament game nine-ball.

Straight pool, also called 14. 1 continuous or simply 14. 1, is a pocket billiards game, and was the common sport of championship competition until overtaken by faster-playing games like nine-ball ( and to a lesser extent eight-ball ).