These games revolve around wagers of money.

In the Command & Conquer real-time strategy games, both the gameplay and storyline revolve heavily around the introduction to Earth of an extraterrestrial mutagen called Tiberium via meteor, which displays strikingly lifelike behaviours such as self-replication, evolution, and homeostasis, without undergoing anything like common carbon-based metabolic cycles, and which appears to be colonising the Earth, converting it into an environment unsuited to carbon-based biology.

Numerous plotlines and side-quests in the Ultima games revolve around one of Lord British's adventures or public works projects.

Usually represented as the " evil " counterpart to the Knights, as most of their games revolve around the PCs finding reasons to kill each other before completing the intended adventure.

Many Inuit folk games revolve around song as well, including string games, hide-and-seek, juggling and rhymes and riddles.

Following games would revolve around nuclear weapon inspections in Iraq and Iran, but such idea was left out due to growing concern regarding the political situation in the Middle East.

It turns out that “ cheating ” is a very complex phenomenon whose meaning is continually negotiated by players, the game industry, and various gaming sub-cultures that revolve around specific games.

* Most Castlevania games revolve around the epic struggle between the Belmont lineage and Count Dracula who resides in Transylvania.

The games revolve around Agent 5's exploits throughout time to save Earth in the present.

Shooter refers to games which revolve primarily around wielding firearms and killing other entities in the game world, either NPCs or other players.

Many basic strategies in games such as StarCraft and Warcraft III revolve around learning to micro-manage units so they attack tanks first so that the tanks do not continually attack units.

Most of Aoki's manga revolve around video games or toys.

The games he plays throughout the film revolve around this goal, most obviously in the scene with the postman, in which Manuk ’ s inadvertent assault on the hapless cyclist is the result of a game in which he imagines he is with his father attacking an unseen enemy.

These games revolve around the main character Goemon, and his exploits.

Within this setting, the games revolve around the story of fictional characters involved in a conflict known as the War of the Lions.

Along with Countdown Vampires, it is one of the few survival horror games to revolve around vampires.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

Moving around camp we saw all kinds of camp stoves, lanterns, coolers, bedding, games, fishing tackle, windbreaks and sunshades.

So, for happy years, Helva scooted around in her shell with her classmates, playing such games as Stall, Power-Seek, studying her lessons in trajectory, propulsion techniques, computation, logistics, mental hygiene, basic alien psychology, philology, space history, law, traffic, codes: all the et ceteras that eventually became compounded into a reasoning, logical, informed citizen.

There were around 1, 400 games released for the Acorn Electron, several thousand extra public domain titles were released on disc through Public Domain libraries.

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.

The Olympic torch that is carried around the host country of the Olympic games is lit by means of a burning glass.

Although the Orioles hovered around. 500 for much of the season, they had fallen back by September and were over 20 games behind the first place Tampa Bay Rays.

Such games are also created to capitalize on the popularity of other forms of entertainment, such as Pokémon and Marvel Comics which both have had CCGs created around them.

Carmina Dalhousiana, a song created in 1882, is commonly played and sung at various events around Dalhousie, such as commencement and convocation, and athletic games.

As many regular players reached excellent gaming skills, diplomacy became essential, so team games slowly started to replace free-for-all games from around 2002.

The show revolves around the priests ' lives on Craggy Island, sometimes dealing with matters of the church but more often dealing with Father Ted's schemes to either resolve a situation with the parish or other Craggy Island residents, or to win games of one-upmanship against his arch-nemesis, Father Dick Byrne of the nearby Rugged Island parish.

* He got passed the laws to ban pinball machines as gambling devices around 1939, and many photos exist of him destroying the games prohibition-style, with sledge hammers or in large fires.

Several shorter-lived high stakes games also were attempted around the time of the millennium, such as Winning Lines, The Chair, and Greed.

The one major difference between the javelin of the ancient games and the javelin of more modern times is a leather thong, called an ankyle that was wound around the middle of the shaft.

2009 marked a low point, with the team's attendance averaging around 50, 000, causing seven of the eight home games to be blacked out, and leading NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to address the issue with owner Wayne Weaver.

Many MUDs were fashioned around the dice-rolling rules of the Dungeons & Dragons series of games.

Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called " sowing " games, or " count-and-capture " games, which describes the game-play.

It also helped to bring more fans and their families from all around Wisconsin to come to games with a practical guarantee of no rain-outs, bring in more potential revenue for the club.

Konami's Zone of the Enders is a series of action games centred around mecha combat for the PlayStation 2.

Further American developments followed, such as the wild card ( around 1875 ), lowball and split-pot poker ( around 1900 ), and community card poker games ( around 1925 ).

A formula to supply players for the new Minneapolis Vikings and the problem of increasing the 1961 schedule to fourteen games will be discussed by National Football League owners at a meeting at the Hotel Warwick today.

Like many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players.

Standard tournament games are played with four players.

On December 11, 13 games into his first NFL season as head coach, Bobby Petrino resigned without notice to coach at the University of Arkansas, leaving the beleaguered players only a note in the locker room.

State of origin games also declined in importance, especially after an increasing number of withdrawals by AFL players.

The Atari Lynx has several innovative features including it being the first color handheld, with a backlit display, a switchable right-handed / left-handed ( upside down ) configuration, and the ability to network with up to 17 other units via its " ComLynx " system ( though most games would network eight or fewer players ).

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 ).

Many board games are now available as video games, which can include the computer itself as one of several players, or as sole opponent.

Many board games can now be played online against a computer and / or other players.

But many children's games are mainly decided by luck: e. g. Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders require no decisions by the players.

In other games, such as Tigris and Euphrates, some information is hidden from players.

* Share-buying games ( in which players buy stakes in each other's positions ; these are typically longer economic-management games )

In card games, a burn card is a playing card dealt from the top of a deck, and discarded (" burned "), unused by the players.

Five players have accomplished the feat in National League games.

In baseball, the statistic applies also to players who, prior to a game, are included on a starting lineup card or are announced as ex ante substitutes, whether they actually play or not, although, in Major League Baseball, the application of this statistic does not extend to consecutive games played streaks.

Previously, because of a players ' strike in 1981, a split-season format forced a divisional playoff series, in which the Montreal Expos won the Eastern Division series over the Philadelphia Phillies three games to two while the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros three games to two in the Western Division.

It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players.

In European casinos, " no hole card " games are prevalent ; the dealer's second card is neither drawn nor consulted until the players have all played their hands.

The players ' initial cards may be dealt face-up, or face-down ( more common in single-deck games ).

In social games, the players may make their calls orally ; otherwise, players use a bidding box containing cards for each possible call and place the respective card face up on the table in front of their position.