Every home game since May 15, 2003 has been sold out — a MLB record that has spanned almost nine years.

On April 17, 2008, Colorado beat the San Diego Padres, 2 – 1, in a 22-inning road game that spanned 6 hours and 16 minutes.

Mark Rosewater, head designer of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, cites " The Hero's Journey " as a major inspiration for " The Weatherlight Saga ," an epic storyarc that went from 1997 to 2001, and spanned multiple cardsets, comic books, and novels.

Wood recorded over 200 strikeouts in four out of his first five seasons, with a high of 266 in 2003 and is the co-holder the MLB record for strikeouts in a single game ( 20 ), earning himself the nickname Kid K. He was a two-time National League All-Star and pitched in the post-season five times in a career that spanned 15 seasons.

His work spanned 32 game shows produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman from the late 1950s through the mid 1980s.

In addition, his career spanned many important rule changes that changed the game in many ways, but Start continued to play at a high level through all of them.

He learned the game at the relatively late age of 18 but quickly became a strong player and went on to develop a professional chess career that spanned over 50 years.

The concept of a dungeon that spanned a planet was first introduced by Gary Gygax in his D-series of game modules and at the end of the G-series.

During the game it is learned that the Kushan were the exiles of the Hiigaran Empire, which had historically spanned throughout a great area of space within the galactic core.

The actual development of the game took overall five years to complete and spanned three platforms: the Nintendo GameCube, the Microsoft Xbox and the Xbox 360.

In a senior inter-county career that spanned two decades, O ' Keeffe won every honour in the game at senior level.

In a senior inter-county career that spanned two decades, O ' Connell won every honour in the game at senior level.

His inter-county football career, which spanned three decades, saw him earn a record nine All-Star awards, more than any other player in the history of the game.

In total, Jim Perry hosted approximately ten different game shows ( including unsold pilots ) in a career that spanned about 25 years.

Some objects in the game spanned only a few pixels, so to find them, the player would often have to resort to pixel hunting.

While being the last NHL goaltender to play every minute of every game in a season, his professional career spanned more than 50 continuous years ( 22 as a player and 31 as management ); more than 45 of them were within the NHL.

William Orville DeWitt Sr. ( August 3, 1902 — March 4, 1982 ) was a longtime executive in Major League Baseball whose career spanned more than 50 years in the game.

James ' game show hosting duties spanned the better part of four decades, presiding over shows such as The Name's the Same, High Finance ( which he co-created ), Haggis Baggis, People Will Talk, PDQ, and the talent shows Chance of a Lifetime and Your All-American College Show.

The original game was developed in 1986 for the MSX, and its popularity has spanned four sequels, a spin-off, and remakes across several platforms, notably the TurboGrafx-16 and Sega Mega Drive until the early 1990s, when it was quietly retired.

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.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

In all the bitter in-fighting, the squabbles over election procedures, the complicated numbers game that East and West played on the assistant secretaries' theme, the gentleman from Burma showed himself both as a man of principle and a skilled diplomat.

It was rather a childish game, all in all, but everybody seemed to be getting into the spirit of the thing and he could not remember when he had enjoyed planning anything quite so much.

Last year, when he worked out at halfback all season, he didn't get into a single game.

Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

Asteroids was a hit in the United States and became Atari's best selling game of all time.

The game is over when the player has lost all of his / her lives.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

The player wins the game by solving all the anagrams within the allotted time.

At the end of the game, all players liquidate their stock in order to determine which player has the most money.

( A revised 2-port model was released in 1983, along with a game adapter that allowed gamers to play all 2600 games.

In its list of the top 25 game consoles of all time, IGN claimed that the main reason for the 5200's market failure was the technological superiority of its competitor, while other sources maintain that the two consoles are roughly equivalent in power.

In 2009, IGN chose the 7800 to be their 17th best video game console of all time.

When in “ 7800 ” mode ( signified by the appearance of the full screen Atari logo ), the graphics are generated entirely by the MARIA graphics processing unit, all system RAM is available and game data is accessed in larger 48K blocks.

Some of the late 90s / early 2000s games were under development by other companies at one time, but rights to the game programs and all of the existing code was bought and finished by other developers.

While this does bear some similarity with the classic posture of cowboys firing their twin revolvers from the hip, in games this posture is almost never reflected, with almost all game characters firing twin guns at shoulder level, straight-armed.

Although many board games have a jargon all their own, there is a generalized terminology to describe concepts applicable to basic game mechanics and attributes common to nearly all board games.

Some games involve commanding multiple game pieces ( or units ), such as chess pieces or Monopoly houses and hotels, that have unique designations and capabilities within the parameters of the game ; in other games, such as Go, all pieces controlled by a player have the same capabilities.

The team struggled with injuries and lost all four tests ( a game against the Western Province had test status ).

The objective of the game is to clear all the bubbles from the arena without any bubble crossing the bottom line.