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The games have been credited with making the Winter Olympics more popular in the United States, not least of which because of ABC's extensive coverage of Fleming and Killy, who became overnight sensations among teenage girls.
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Ball games, especially football, required some attention, and other organized sports may have attracted him as participant or spectator.
The guessing games referred to have driven more than one Negro into the narcotics ward, the madhouse, or the river.
Moritz was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle in the thigh of his right ( kicking ) leg and, as a result, several of his successful conversions have gone barely far enough.
In their first three games, the Longhorns have had the ball 41 times and scored 16 times, or 40 per cent ; ;
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.
Many of the recent TV Games series of old Atari games have included either the 2600 or arcade versions of Asteroids.
During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).
Garry Kasparov argued that Karpov would have had good chances, because he had beaten Spassky convincingly and was a new breed of tough professional, and indeed had higher quality games, while Fischer had been inactive for three years.
The magazine's stated criteria for the Hall of Fame encompasses " games that have met or exceeded the highest standards of quality and play value and have been continuously in production for at least 10 years ; i. e., classics.
If Acorn had thought to include this small modification in the original Electron design it is likely the machine would have had a much greater impact as it would have nearly doubled the amount of motion possible in games and saved modes 0 – 3 ( including the only 16 colour mode ) from being nearly useless due to contended memory timings.
There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Astérix, is themed around the series.
They have been to the playoffs six times and have won six playoff games, three of which were victories during their run in the 2008-09 NFL Playoffs.
When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.
However, five American League teams had threatened to block the league assignments because of concerns that they would have additional games out of their time zone, causing early starts that would decrease revenue and TV ratings.
Many related games have emerged from football, mainly with variations of contact to encourage greater participation.
While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.
Nonetheless, some unreleased Atari 7800 games, as well as early versions of released games have been released to the public.
Learning time does not necessarily correlate with the number or complexity of rules ; some games, such as chess or Go, have simple rulesets while possessing profound strategies.
Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history ; some even pre-date literacy skill development in the earliest civilizations.
The rise of computer use is one of the reasons said to have led to a relative decline in board games.
Bruce Halpenny, a games inventor said when interviewed about his game, “ With crime you deal with every basic human emotion and also have enough elements to combine action with melodrama.
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Everything from poetry to phonetics, history to histrionics, philosophy to party games has been adapted to the turntable.
Atari had been in the process of manufacturing another vector game, Lunar Lander, but demand for Asteroids was so high " that several hundred Asteroids games were shipped in Lunar Lander cabinets.
The Rockies had been on an incredible winning pace since the All Star break, and they swept the Diamondbacks in four games.
First, Atari had been facing mounting pressure from the ColecoVision, which boasted graphics that more closely mirrored arcade games of the time than Atari ’ s reigning 2600 VCS system.
Second, the Atari 5200 ( the original intended successor to the Atari 2600 VCS ) had been widely criticized for not being able to play Atari 2600 VCS games without an adapter.
While there has been a fair amount of scientific research on the psychology of older board games ( e. g., chess, go, mancala ), less has been done on contemporary board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and Risk.
Linearly arranged board games have been shown to improve children's spatial numerical understanding.
It has long been believed that cricket also descended from such games, though evidence uncovered in early 2009 suggests that the sport may have been imported to England from Flanders .< ref >
There have also been games in other countries on the way home.
After the contract has been established, the play of the cards proceeds as in most trick-taking card games until all thirteen tricks have been played with the result that the declaring side has either succeeded or failed in fulfilling their part of the contract.
In 1971, the team's four starting pitchers, McNally, Cuellar, Palmer, and Pat Dobson, all won 20 games, a feat that has not been replicated.
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* 1986 – Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan.
It is often credited with creating the kart-racing sub genre of video games, leading other developers to try to duplicate its success.
1979's Warrior is another title sometimes credited as one of the first fighting games.
He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web.
* May 27 – the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
Close has credited her early years for her acting abilities: " I have no doubt that the days I spent running free in the evocative Connecticut countryside with an unfettered imagination, playing whatever character our games demanded, is one of the reasons that acting has always seemed so natural to me.
Yashin is credited with four clean sheets out of the 12 games he played in the World Cup finals.
He left the club with only 22 wins from 83 games – a winning percentage of just over 25 %, however, he was credited for rebuilding the club following the retirements of David Neitz, Adem Yze and Russell Robertson early in Bailey's coaching career.
Stevenson has been credited with the following video games:
GoldenEye 007 has subsequently become credited alongside Shiny Entertainment's MDK for pioneering and popularizing the now-standard inclusion of scoped sniper rifles in video games.
Hideyuki Suganami, usually credited as NAMI, led the development of several Treasure games, including Mischief Makers and Alien Soldier, and Sin and Punishment: Hoshi no Keishōsha.
He was the primary creative force behind Bangai-O and its sequel, and is frequently credited as Assistant Director on most games he works on because of his strong creative role.
Tetsuhiko Kikuchi ( credited as HAN in design roles ) is an artist and character designer who had directed several Treasure games, including writing, directing, and creating much of the art for Guardian Heroes and its sequel.
Hironobu Sakaguchi has been credited, in some capacity, with the following games.
In addition, the game inspired and was used in the fan-created Red vs. Blue video series, which is credited as the " first big success " of machinima ( the technique of using real-time 3D engines, often from video games, to create animated films ).
Many of these elements were used in later survival horror games, and thus the game is credited with making the survival horror genre possible.
The Fatal Frame series has since gained a reputation as one of the most distinctive in the genre, with the first game in the series credited as one of the best-written survival horror games ever made, by UGO Networks.
William ( Willy ) A. Higinbotham ( October 25, 1910 – November 10, 1994 ), an American physicist, is credited with creating one of the first computer games, Tennis for Two.
In 2008, the game was credited by Australian PC Magazine as being one of the worst games ever made.
The music for the games was composed by two employees of the Japanese music and sound effect production company Pure Sound, credited under the pseudonyms " M-Adachi " and " Kyopi ".
They were not developed by id Software, though they were credited in some of the games.
Executives Jim Toomey of the St. Louis Cardinals, Alan Roth of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Irv Kaze of the Pittsburgh Pirates awarded saves to pitchers that finished winning games but were not credited with the win, regardless of the margin of victory.
* Niekro is credited for teaching Chelsea Baker, a young female phenom who pitched 2 perfect games, how to throw a knuckleball.
In early games he was often credited as " YU2 " ( in reference to Yu Suzuki ) and " Muuu Yuji ".
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