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.

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 ".

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

At the time, a key driver for success with a home console was the number of home conversions it had of popular arcade games.

Telegames released a number of games in the second half of the 1990s, including a port of Raiden and a platformer called Fat Bobby in 1997, as well as an action sports game called Hyperdrome in 1999.

Since then a number of independent developers released games into the new decade, like Championship Rally, CyberVirus, and Alpine Games.

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.

A number of important historical sites, artifacts and documents exist which shed light on early board games.

There are a number of different categories that board games can be broken up into, although considerable overlap exists, and a game may belong in several categories.

* CG — Complete game: number of games where player was the only pitcher for his team

* GF — Games finished: number of games pitched where player was the final pitcher for his team as a relief pitcher

* GS — Starts: number of games pitched where player was the first pitcher for his team

* HLD ( or H )— Hold: number of games entered in a save situation, recorded at least one out, did not surrender the lead, and did not complete the game

* L — Loss: number of games where pitcher was pitching while the opposing team took the lead, never lost the lead, and went on to win

* SHO — Shutout: number of complete games pitched with no runs allowed

* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings

* W — Win: number of games where pitcher was pitching while his team took the lead and went on to win, also the starter needs to pitch at least 5 innings of work ( also related: winning percentage )

* G — Games played: number of games where the player played, in whole or in part

* GS — Games Started: number of games a player starts

* GB — Games behind: number of games a team is behind the division leader

Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

It was during this period that a number of simple computer games were written in BASIC, most notably Mike Mayfield's Star Trek.

There are three general categories of casino games: table games, electronic gaming machines, and random number ticket games such as Keno and simulated racing.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

The cyclist, a sufficiently commonplace young fellow, is not named but identified simply as `` Life '' -- that and a license number, which Piepsam uses in addressing him.

Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.

The number of primitive ideas in systematically-simple theories is reduced to a minimum.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

There are a number of other considerations besides this one but it is for the Congress, not the Department of Justice, to balance these various considerations and make a judgment about legislation.

Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.

For that is the one an increasingly large number of prominent Americans are now proposing.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

Too bad your number is in the directory ''.

The number of countries thus favorably situated is small, but their peoples constitute over half of the population of the underdeveloped world.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

The Navy, on April 25, announced it is bringing back the carrier Shangri-La from the Mediterranean, increasing to four the number of attack carriers in the vicinity of Cuba.

There is little doubt that the number of those who wish to serve will be far greater than our capacity to absorb them.

Since broadcast frequencies are very limited in number, these objectives are to some extent inconsistent in that not all of them can be fully realized, and to the extent that each is realized, there is a corresponding reduction of the possibilities for fullest achievement of the others.

During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.

In the daytime, on the other hand, since skywave transmission is relatively inefficient, it is possible to assign a substantially larger number of stations on these channels.

Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.