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.

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is an arcade game by Taito, first released in 1986 and later ported to numerous home computers and game consoles.

The game was quickly ported by enthusiasts to modern operating systems.

The game was ported to Nintendo DS in 2010.

This allowed the game to be ported to different platforms such as Linux and OS / 2 ( EComStation ).

By the release of Version 6 Unix ( 1975 ), the game had been ported to Unix C. An implementation of Hunt the Wumpus was typically included with MBASIC, Microsoft's BASIC interpreter for CP / M and one of the company's first products.

As the games were text based and used variants of the same Z-machine interpreter, the interpreter had to be ported to new computer architectures only once per architecture, rather than once per game.

Some Id Software titles ported to Linux are Doom ( the first Id Software game to be ported ), Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Doom 3, Quake 4, and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

The site featured two games coded and designed by Jacobs, a MUD called Aradath ( which was later renamed, upgraded and ported to GEnie as Dragon's Gate ) and a 4X science-fiction game called Galaxy, which was also ported to GEnie.

In computer gaming, Murder Motel was an online text game by Sean D. Wagle, hosted on various dial-up bulletin board systems ( 1980s, originally Color64, ported to various other platforms ).

Idol Mahjong Final Romance II, an arcade game which was not an MVS game, was also ported to the Neo Geo CD.

The Gladiator bots from Quake II were ported to Quake III and incorporated into the game by their creator-Jan Paul van Waveren, aka Mr. Elusive.

The game has also been ported to the PlayStation Portable ( PSP ), with multiplayer options, the ability to load maps and mods, and has inspired homebrew like Kurok, a mix of Turok and Goldeneye 64, and Left 4 Quake, a fan-made Left 4 Dead in Quake.

Fans of the game ported it to Linux, Mac OS, Xbox, Dreamcast, PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS ( homebrew ) and 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows.

In 2003, the game was ported to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox video game consoles and subtitled as Operation Resurrection and Tides of War, respectively.

In 1992, the game was ported as SameGame to Unix platforms by Eiji Fukumoto, and to the NEC PC-9801 series by Wataru Yoshioka.

The game was originally developed for the poorly selling, Japanese-only Nintendo 64DD, but was ported to cartridge format when the 64DD hardware was delayed.

The game was ported to Linux by Loki Software, who had previously ported Quake III Arena to Linux.

* Blitz ( video game ), a bombing game for the Commodore Vic-20

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

Commodore took out aggressive ads featuring William Shatner asking consumers " Why buy just a video game?

In 1994, the ' make or break ' system, according to Pleasance, was the 32-bit CD-ROM-based game console: the CD32, but it was not sufficiently profitable to put Commodore back in the black.

Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal is a 1987 video game for the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and the Amiga based on the comic strip.

Hunt the Wumpus was adapted as an early game for the Commodore PET entitled Twonky, which was distributed in the late 1970s with Cursor Magazine.

Before then, the game was only available on a limited basis on the Commodore 64 due to few publishers showing any interest in porting it.

* New York City ( video game ), a 1984 Atari 400 / 800 / XL and Commodore 64 video game

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.

It was also the last version released for the Commodore Amiga platform from which the game originated.

A game inspired by the film called Computer War, in which the player must track and shoot down ICBMs as well as crack a computer code, was released for the TI-99 / 4A and Commodore VIC-20.

Melbourne House also released a Judge Dredd game on the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1987.

* Grand Monster Slam, a 1989 computer game for the Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST and PC

* Colossus Chess, A game from the 1980s on the Commodore 64 / Amiga

and Rebel Planet ) for the Commodore 64, Amstrad, BBC, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum ( 1984 ) and Deathtrap Dungeon video game for the PC and PlayStation by Eidos Interactive ( 1998 ).

His first Llamasoft game was a Defender clone for the Commodore VIC-20 called Andes Attack ( US version: Aggressor ).

In 1990, Amstrad tried to enter the video game console market with the Amstrad GX4000, similar to what Commodore did at the same time with the C64 GS.

* The events of the Commodore 64 computer game Project Firestart begin on September 12 of this year.

In 1988, GameTek released a home computer game of Press Your Luck for IBM PC compatibles and the Commodore 64.

In a strategy that directly affected its home computer arch-rival Atari, Commodore explicitly targeted video game players in its advertising by offering trade-ins toward the purchase of a Commodore 64 and suggesting that college-bound children would need to own computers, not videogames.