Practices are held regularly and the schedule of games is prepared by the student coach and the officers of the club.

This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

Ralph Houk, successor to Casey Stengel at the Yankee helm, plans to bring the entire New York squad here from St. Petersburg, including Joe Dimaggio and large crowds are anticipated for both weekend games.

The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

The Denver-area TV audience was privileged to see Mays' four home runs, thanks to a new arrangement made by Bob Howsam that the games are not to be blacked out when his Bears are playing at home.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

Anagrams are in themselves a recreational activity, but they also make up part of many other games, puzzles and game shows.

Anagram solvers are often banned from online anagram games.

The idea that role-playing games are an art form took strong root in this zine, and left a lasting impression on many of the RPG professionals who contributed.

Standard tournament games are played with four players.

There are also several other lesser-known and historical forms of archery, as well as archery novelty games.

There are at least 500 known games for the Electron and the true total is probably in the thousands.

Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic games are: Stand Up and Cheer, the Acadia University fight song.

Notable among a number of fight songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic games are: the Acadia University alma mater set to the tune of " Annie Lisle ".

Home games are currently played at the Stadio Olimpico, a venue they share with city rivals Lazio.

Both video and sound are used in 2600 games.

While side-scrolling games in the vein of Super Mario Bros. are possible on the system ( 1990's Scrapyard Dog is the best example ), it is significantly harder to develop such a title than on a tile-based system such as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

A normal activity for high schools in the US is attending Friday night football games in Autumn, while Sunday afternoons are reserved for the professional game, particularly the National Football League, and Saturdays are traditionally used for college football.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).

There are many different types and styles of board games.

Rules can range from the very simple, as in tic-tac-toe, to those describing a game universe in great detail, as in Dungeons & Dragons ( although most of the latter are role-playing games where the board is secondary to the game, helping to visualize the game scenario ).

GCC, which had a background in creating arcade games, designed their new system with a graphical architecture similar to arcade machines of the time.

The roof was closed for all prior playoff games and similar weather conditions.

The player can move along platforms, as well as jump to those above and to the side, similar to most platform games.

The rankings of the individual tiles are similar in most games.

In the Master of Orion series of space strategy games, there exists an extraterrestrial race called Silicoids, whose appearance ( and presumably composition ) is similar to crystalline mineral structures.

In the 1970s, numerous companies began to sell miniature figures specifically for Dungeons & Dragons and similar games.

Putters are similar to the discs used in simple games of catch, such as the Wham-o brand Frisbee.

A domino set is a generic gaming device, similar to playing cards or dice, in that a variety of games can be played with a set.

" At its core, the gameplay is similar to classic shooter games ( such as Space Invaders ), presenting the player with the challenge of surviving while shooting every enemy in sight, but with its pseudo-3D first-person perspective giving environments a spatial representation that has a major effect on the level design and gameplay experience.

( A similar trick is still used by many games to create huge outdoor environments.

The game is similar to fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons, but draws more inspiration from games like RuneQuest.

Tolkien's writing has such popularity that in the 1960s and afterwards, elves speaking an elvish language similar to those in Tolkien's novels ( like Quenya, and Sindarin ) became staple non-human characters in high fantasy works and in fantasy role-playing games.

While the game engine itself remained relatively similar between all games in the series, the interface went through many changes.

It is somewhat common for a game to be designed with one theme and published with another, or for the same game to be given a significantly different theme for a later republication, or for two games on wildly different themes to have very similar mechanics.

Often German producers will try to establish a line of similar games, such as Kosmos's two-player card game series or Alea's big box line.

By the 19th century, there existed similar games of håndbold from Denmark, házená in the Czech Republic, hádzaná in Slovakia, gandbol in Ukraine, and torball in Germany.

In 1867 he accompanied the National Base Ball Club of Washington D. C. on their inaugural national tour, as their official scorer, and in 1874 was instrumental in organizing a similar tour of England, which included games of both baseball and cricket.

INWO is often said to be more difficult to learn than most CCGs, but it is infused with much more humor, similar to other Steve Jackson games.

The Intellivoice was original in two respects: not only was this capability unique to the Intellivision system at the time ( although a similar device was available for the Odyssey2 ), but the speech-supporting games written for Intellivoice actually made the speech an integral part of the gameplay.

In many modern airliners aircraft, for example all Airbus aircraft developed from the 1980s, the joystick has received a new lease on life for flight control in the form of a " sidestick " — a controller similar to a games joystick, but which is used to control the flight, replacing the traditional yoke.

Lugh instituted an event similar to the Olympic games called the Assembly of Talti which finished on Lughnasadh ( 1 August ) in memory of his foster-mother, Tailtiu, at the town that bears her name ( now Teltown, County Meath ).

Nearby Olympia ( only 22 miles away ) has a similar ash altar, and both settlements held ancient athletic games.

Like other cross and circle games, it is similar to the Indian Pachisi, but simpler.

Because of the solid form of the tiles, mahjong is sometimes classified as a domino game but plays similar to card games such as rummy.