The term " video jockey ", or VJ, was used to describe the fresh-faced youth who introduced the music videos.

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 term GUI is rarely applied to other low-resolution types of interfaces that are non-generic, such as video games ( where HUD is preferred ), or not restricted to flat screens, like volumetric displays.

The term can also be used as an explanation for the poor quality of a digitized audio or video file.

While the term " impi " has become synonymous with the Zulu nation in international popular culture, it appears in various video games such as Civilization III, Civilization IV: Warlords and Civilization: Revolution, where the Impi is the unique unit for the Zulu faction with Shaka as their leader and also as an appearance as unique unit of the Bantu nation in Rise of Nation ( Zulus are among many tribes who make up the Bantu people ).

They exist by that name only in the Expanded Universe, including video games such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Jedi Knight series ; the term is never used in any of the six Star Wars films.

The live action in LARP is analogous to the term live action used in film and video to differentiate works with human actors from animation.

The term letterbox is sometimes used to emphasize that a widescreen motion picture or video has not been anamorphically encoded for 16: 9 screens, thus not taking full advantage of the resolution provided by DVD, high-definition television ( HDTV ), or other media.

In the 1980s, the term " rock video " was often used to describe this form of entertainment, although the term has fallen into disuse.

The term is also used to distinguish role-playing games from role-playing video games, although role-playing games do not necessarily use either pencils or paper.

In the 20th and 21st century, he appeared in movies, in fantasy, in video games and in role play, where by extension, the term " pegasus " ( plural: " pegasi ") is often used to refer to any winged horse.

RGB is also the term referring to a type of component video signal used in the video electronics industry.

The term " streaming media " can apply to media other than video and audio such as live closed captioning, stock ticker, and real-time text, which are all considered " streaming text ".

In modern times, the term " zombie " has been applied to an undead being in horror fiction, largely drawn from George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. They have appeared as plot devices in various books, films, video games and in television shows.

The term Set-Back Box is used in the digital TV industry to describe a piece of consumer hardware that enables them to access both linear broadcast and internet-based video content, plus a range of interactive services like Electronic Programme Guides ( EPG ), Pay Per View ( PPV ) and Video on Demand ( VOD ) as well as internet browsing, and view them on a large screen television set.

The term applies equally well to film and video cameras, computer graphics, and motion capture systems.

The term " arcade game " is also, in recent times, used to refer to a video game that was designed to look like a classic arcade game ( adopting an isometric view, 2D graphics, scores, lives, etc.

A terminal emulator, terminal application, term, or tty for short, is a program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture.

Although the term closed-circuit television ( CCTV ) is common, it is quickly becoming outdated as more video systems lose the closed circuit for signal transmission and are instead transmitting on computer networks.

Nonetheless, the term DBS is often used interchangeably with DTH to cover both analog and digital video and audio services ( including video-on-demand and interactive features ) received by relatively small dishes ( less than 1 meter ).

Cross-platform is a term that can also apply to video games released on a range of video game consoles, specialized computers dedicated to the task of playing games.

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 ).

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.

The term has also been applied to computer and video games that cause consumers to buy a particular video game console or gaming hardware over a competing one.

Old High German balcho, beam, balk ; probably cognate with Persian term بالكانه bālkāneh or its older variant پالكانه pālkāneh ), a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade.

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.

"( Console ) port " is a term specifically used to describe a game that was originally made for a console ( such as Wii or Xbox 360 ) before an identical version is created which can be played on a personal computer or any other console.

), pronounced " one up ", is a term in console video gaming that commonly refers to an item that gives the player an extra life, to complete the game.

Whatever its origin, the term quickly caught on as a way to describe a hit, and has subsequently been applied to productions other than plays and films, including novels and multi-million selling computer / console game titles.

That changed in late 1991, as Sega built their marketing campaign around their new mascot Sonic the Hedgehog, pushing the Genesis as the " cooler " alternative to Nintendo's console and inventing the term " Blast Processing " to suggest that the Genesis was capable of handling games with faster motion than the SNES.

The term is also used for systems which may additionally have a mixing console, and amplifiers and loudspeakers suitable for music as well as speech, used to reinforce a sound source, e. g., recorded music or a person giving a speech, and distributing the sound throughout a venue or building.

" Console wars ", also known as " System wars " is a term used to refer to periods of intense competition for market share between video game console manufacturers.

Four, the term appliance generally implies that devices are task specific and under the control of some embedded system or application specific operating system, whereas Smart Devices may support multiple tasks, e. g., a mobile phone can act as a phone but also as a games console, music player, camera, etc.

The term " lag switch " encompasses many methods of disrupting the network communication between a console and its server.

Incoming calls arrived on an Attendant Trunk which, for customers with more than one console, waited for one to become idle and then connected to it, initially via Step by Step switches arranged as a Trunk Finder and Position Finder making up a small Automatic call distributor some years before that term was invented.

The term NTSC-J is also used to distinguish regions in console video games, which use televisions.

This has led to the term " Halo killer " being used to describe console games that aspire, or are considered, to be better than Halo.

** Console wars – a term used to refer to periods of intense competition for market share between video game console manufacturers.

Launching on July 15, 1983, the Nintendo Family Computer ( commonly known by the Japanese-English term Famicom ) was an 8-bit console using interchangeable cartridges.

The term box art ( also called a game cover or cover art ) can refer to the artwork on the front of PC or console game packaging.

A computer widow ( or widower ) is a term for those who have a relationship with a computer user, either one who plays video games, on a console or on the computer, FoxBusiness and by Macleans Magazine