The name Capcom is an abbreviation of " Capsule Computers ", a term coined by the company to describe the arcade machines it solely manufactured in its early years, designed to set themselves apart from personal computers that were becoming widespread at that time.

Porting is also the term used when a video game designed to run on one platform, be it an arcade, video game console, or personal computer, is converted to run on a different platform.

Arcade perfect is a term used to describe video games which have been ported from an arcade version to another platform, such as a console or computer, without any alterations to the game's workings.

Mall is generally used in North America to refer to a large shopping area usually composed of a single building which contains multiple shops, usually " anchored " by one or more department stores surrounded by a parking lot, while the term arcade is more often used, especially in Britain, to refer to a narrow pedestrian-only street, often covered or between closely spaced buildings ( see town centre ).

In home computers, game consoles and arcade game hardware of the 1980s and 1990s, the term chipset was used for the custom audio and graphics chips.

In the same vein, " bootlegging " has become the default term amongst Japanese anime fans to describe the piracy or counterfeiting of CDs, DVDs, computer and video games, arcade games, and other merchandise.

The term level used during this era of arcade video games represented a difficulty phase or defined section of a given game, as in Galaga ( stage 2 ) or Dungeon.

The first first-person shooter game to display telefragging was Doom, though the phenomenon predates the fragging video game term as it was found already in the 1985 arcade game Gauntlet.

The term itself first came into use to describe any game in which the player traveled between platforms, and Space Panic, a 1980 arcade release, has been cited as the first platform game for featuring obstacles and gaps to jump over, making it a platformer by the modern sense of the term.

Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, is documented as the first baseball player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1871.

More recently, the term has been applied to a game, typically played by groups of friends to determine who rides beside the driver in a car.

Due to its widespread distribution, Doom hence became the game that introduced deathmatching to a large audience ( and was also the first game to use the term " deathmatch ").

The game features a wide range of monsters, some of which are aliens, other mutated humans ( the LAPD has been turned into " Pig-cops ", a play on the derogatory term " pig " for police officers, with LARD emblazoned on their uniforms ).

In video games, the term " director's cut " is usually used as a colloquialism to refer to an expanded version of a previously released game.

The variety of different ways to contest possession in Australian rules has led to first time observers of the game regarding it as having " no rules " or as some Australians unfamiliar with the game colloquially term it " Rafferty's Rules ".

Today, however, game theory applies to a wide range of class relations, and has developed into an umbrella term for the logical side of science, to include both human and non-humans, like computers.

* A term in the game of poker

The characters in yuri are typically " bishōjo ", meaning " beautiful girl " ( this term is not specific to yuri but is applied generally to depictions of attractive women for a male audience ; for example, in the term " bishōjo game ").

In common usage, the term refers to text adventures, a type of adventure game where the entire interface can be " text-only ".

The term " game " in improv can also refer to the Upright Citizen Brigade Theatre's concept of the " game of the scene " as a teaching technique and strategy for improv and sketch comedy.

The term " computer game " also includes games which display only text ( and which can therefore theoretically be played on a teletypewriter ) or which use other methods, such as sound or vibration, as their primary feedback device, but there are very few new games in these categories.

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).

While Nomic is traditionally capitalized as the proper name of the game it describes, it has also sometimes been used in a more informal way as a lowercased generic term, nomic, referring to anything with Nomic-like characteristics, including games where the rules may be changed during play as well as non-gaming situations where it can be alleged that " rules lawyers " are tinkering with the process used to amend rules and policies ( in an organization or community ) in a manner akin to a game of Nomic.

But most commonly, the term refers to the declaration in the final phase of a high-low split game, in which players indicate whether their hands are to be evaluated as high hands, low hands, or both at showdown.

The term is also used to describe a category of poker game in which no cards held by individual players are visible to any other player before the showdown.

In poker, the strength of a hand ( how likely it is to be the best according to the rules of the game being played ) is often called its value ; however, in the context of poker strategy the term is more often used to describe a betting tactic, a bet for value.

A cockfight is a contest held in a ring called a cockpit between two gamecocks or cocks, with the first use of the word gamecock ( denoting use of the cock in game, sport, pastime or entertainment ) appearing in 1646. after the term “ cock of the game ” used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the secular sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

the term of loans for working capital is 6 years.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.

The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

This term refers to the ability of a material to resist bending stress and is determined by measuring the load required to cause failure by bending.

Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).

As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.