It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.

It was strictly the deputy's game, but McBride had gone too far to throw in.

And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

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.

To me it was a game, to her it was the deadly seriousness of life.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

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.

Enough of his life was spent there on the field for him never to like watching the game as a spectator in the crowd.

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.

`` Bull tailin' '' was a game once pop'lar with the Mexican cowboys of Texas.

( In the graveyard at Nairobi he had been shown the graves of thirty-four big game hunters killed hunting the animals he was attempting to lasso.

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.

Every pitch in the game brought forth a howl from the enraptured audience and every fly ball the visitors dropped ( and because their right fielder was still a little fuzzy from drink, they dropped many ) called forth yelps of derision.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Ruth was a delinquent boy still, but he was in every way a great ball player who was out to win the game and occasionally risked a cracked bone to do it.

It was initially intended to be a next generation video game machine, but was redesigned as a general purpose computer after the North American video game crash of 1983.

The game was not initially reviewed often, but given mediocre critical praise and positive gamer reaction.

In game theory, behavioural ecology, and evolutionary psychology, an evolutionarily stable strategy ( ESS ) is a strategy which, if adopted by a population of players in a given environment, cannot be invaded by any alternative strategy that is initially rare.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

There are early representations and reports of ice hockey-type games being played on ice in the Netherlands, and reports from Canada from the beginning of the nineteenth century, but the modern game was initially organized by students at McGill University, Montreal in 1875 who, by two years later, codified the first set of ice hockey rules and organized the first teams.

The developers made fun of this and named the in-game enemies " Jaggi ", and also initially titled the game Behind Jaggi Lines !.

Prices for game cartridges initially ranged from $ 24. 99 to $ 29. 99 each.

Should a player be determined to be stalling repeatedly, the chair umpire may initially give a warning followed by subsequent penalties of " point ", " game ", and default of the match for the player who is consistently taking longer than the allowed time limit.

This game, initially known as Zelda 64, retains the core gameplay of the previous 2D games, and was very successful commercially and critically.

The Odyssey was initially only moderately successful, and it was not until Atari's arcade game Pong popularized video games, that the public began to take more notice of the emerging industry.

The first Worms game featured darker tones than later Worms games, with more realistic effects for weapons rather than cartoon-style effects, and the ambient sound of a battlefield. It subsequently evolved into a full commercial game, renamed Worms, available initially only for the Commodore Amiga computer.

Worms Armageddon was initially intended to be released as an expansion pack for Worms 2, but was released as a stand-alone game when it exceeded all expectations.

Bacon admitted that he initially disliked the game because he believed it was ridiculing him, but he eventually came to enjoy it.

However, there were several differences between the original game concept and that initially published in 1949, In particular, Pratt's original design calls for ten characters, one of whom was to be designated the victim by random drawing prior to the start of the game.

An inaugural game using the new FA rules was initially scheduled for Battersea Park on 2 January 1864, but enthusiastic members of the FA couldn't wait for the new year and an experimental game was played at Mortlake on 19 December 1863 between Morley's Barnes team and their neighbours Richmond ( who were not members of the FA ), ending in a goalless draw.

In 1987, after ABC initially hedged on renewing its contract to carry Monday Night Football, Fox made an offer to the NFL for the same amount ABC had been paying, about $ 13 million per game at the time.

As one of the many unique features of this game, the player could also play a customized version, configuring how long the game would last and where some of the robots would initially appear.

The rights to the game were initially licensed to Selchow and Righter in 1982, then to Parker Brothers ( now part of Hasbro ) in 1988, after initially being turned down by the Virgin Group ; in 2008, Hasbro bought out the rights in full, for US $ 80 million.

Harris had initially created the site to host gaming levels of the video game Doom which he and his friend, Dylan Klebold, had created, primarily for friends.

The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

* 1970 – Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game designer, created Super Smash Bros and Kirby

* 1965 – Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer, created Resident Evil

* 1889 – Charles Darrow, American game designer, created Monopoly ( d. 1967 )

, also known as Bust-a-Move, is a 1994 tile-matching arcade puzzle video game for one or two players created by Taito Corporation.

* Numerous video game consoles are backward compatible and are able to play the games created for predecessor consoles:

The mechanics of the role-playing game system were created specifically for Bunnies & Burrows, common at the time of its original publishing.

Although newer systems have updated game mechanics significantly, the ideas presented in Bunnies & Burrows created the framework for modern role-playing games.

Since then, Capcom created 15 multi-million-selling game series, the most successful of which is Resident Evil.

The style and setting of the game, in a relatively modern time period, created an emphasis on real-life settings, character research, and thinking one's way around trouble.

In February 2008, Pelgrane Press published Trail of Cthulhu, a stand-alone game created by Kenneth Hite using the GUMSHOE System developed by Robin Laws.

Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn-based strategy " 4X "- type strategy video game created by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley for MicroProse in 1991.

The 1999 game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was also created by Meier and is in the same genre, but with a futuristic / space theme.

Adult Swim created a game called Viva Caligula for their official website.

The " Command & Conquer " video game series had cyborgs as a part of its plot-specifically Cyborgs created by the " Brotherhood of Nod " via Tiberium Infusion experimentation.

In the game of Xenosaga, artificial life forms known as Realians have been created using silicon-based chemistry.

This created a rare game in which neither team wore a white jersey and the first time the Cowboys wore the alternative uniform as a visiting team.

Many local businesses with amusingly appropriate names were commemorated in a special edition of the card game Happy Families produced locally in the 1987s, created to raise funds locally.

The first level editors appeared in early 1994, and additional tools have been created that allow most aspects of the game to be edited.

Bowie created the soundtrack for Omikron, a 1999 computer game in which he and Iman also appeared as characters.

In late 2009, Bandai created a webpage in Japanese showing a new game to be released in 2010 called Digimon Story: Lost Evolution, which uses the same engine as their predecessors Digimon World DS and Digimon World Dawn and Dusk and was released on July 1, 2010.

Nintendo Research & Development 1 created the game.

* Eve, a multimedia CD-ROM game created in association with and featuring the music of Peter Gabriel

It is likely that ELIZA was also on the system where Will Crowther created Colossal Cave ( Adventure ), the 1975 game that spawned the interactive fiction genre.