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The video was memorable, and the song itself – somewhat unusual in its musical approach, and even more so in its lyrics, which led off with a quotation from Oscar Wilde and ran through an extensive roster of famous artists from various fields, all dead, with years of births and deaths specified – stabilized the band as a cult favorite among indie lovers, and is the paradigm of the surprisingly successful " list " style of song which Couse has frequently used ( the first example of this style had been the title track on I Want Too Much ).
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" Asteroids was so popular that video arcade operators sometimes had to install larger boxes to hold the number of coins that were spent by players.
It was initially intended to be a next generation video game machine, but was redesigned as a general purpose computer after the North American video game crash of 1983.
The Amiga was one of the first home computers for which inexpensive sound sampling and video digitization accessories were available.
Perhaps the most famous video card in the North American market was the NewTek Video Toaster.
This was a powerful video effects board which turned the Amiga into an affordable video processing computer which found its way into many professional video environments.
Due to needing two accesses to each chip instead of one, and the complications of the video hardware also needing access, reading or writing RAM was much slower than on the BBC Micro.
Applications could not directly address video memory in this mode without modification, so it was incompatible with most games, although there is no inherent reason why a game could not be written to function in shadow mode.
Tridgell was also a leader in hacking the TiVo to make it work in Australia, which uses the PAL video format.
The " dual boot mode " BIOS actually discovered whether a TRS-DOS, or Aster CP / M disk was placed in the drive, and would, depending on the type of disk, reorganise the internal memory architecture of the system, to either be 100 % TRS-80 compatible or optimally support CP / M, with as much " workspace " as possible, and the 80x25 video mode.
To enhance and modernize the Aster CT-80 the company also designed three alternative video display adapters to supplement or replace the TRS-80 compatible video card, ( due to the modular nature of the Aster it was simply a matter of changing the video card, and / or CPU card to upgrade the system ).
* A very High resolution monochrome video card with blitter and hardware text line and arc drawing capability, was designed for CAD applications, based on the NEC µPD7220 chip designed for graphic terminals, but was also used by some personal computers like the DEC Rainbow, and notably also for the Tulip System I.
Because the characters were 8 x 12 pixels this meant that video resolutions of 512 x 192 pixels ( in 64x16 character mode ), or 640 x 300 pixels ( in 80x24 character mode ) were created, which was quite high for the time.
One nibble of such a byte then controlled the foreground color, and the other nibble controlled the background color, a system very similar to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, in fact in the 256x192 mode the display mode was virtually identical to the video of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
This video card would also support fast scrolling of high resolution color screens for games, because it had the indirection of the character pointers, so it was possible to quickly scroll the high resolution display, ( or use other effects ) by simply manipulating the 1920 / 1024 bytes of text video instead of the 24. 576 bytes of high resolution video memory.
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Devo was also a pioneer of the music video, creating many memorable clips for the Laser Disc format, with " Whip It " getting heavy airplay in the early days of MTV.
In 1978 Toshihiro Nishikado, a designer at Taito, created Space Invaders which became the company's most popular title ever and one of the most memorable games in arcade history, responsible for beginning the golden age of arcade video games.
IGN staff, while praising Bowser as one of the most memorable video game villains, criticized both Waluigi and Wario as being " evil twin knockoffs ".
A number of memorable animated videos were produced during the heyday of MTV, including " Take on Me " by a-ha ; " Sledgehammer " by Peter Gabriel ; " Money for Nothing " by Dire Straits ; and " The Harlem Shuffle " by The Rolling Stones ( the animated sequences in this video were directed by Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi ).
Aided by a memorable and well received video by John Maybury which consisted almost solely of O ' Connor's face as she performed the song, it became a massive international hit, reaching # 1 in several countries.
It featured a memorable video of the duo dressed in ABBA outfits, and was one of the principal drivers of the ABBA revival scene in the 1990s.
One month before the album's release, the group played a memorable performance on Saturday Night Live of " Sunless Saturday " ( a song which later featured an MTV video directed by Spike Lee ).
Konami has created and produced some of the biggest and most memorable video games over the past 25 years.
Other memorable roles include such hits as Fantastic Four ( 2005 ) ( where she played Michael Chiklis ' former love interest ), playing cult hero Cybil Bennett in Christophe Gans ' artistic-horror video game adaptation of Silent Hill ( 2006 ), and co-starring as Amanda Dumfries opposite Marcia Gay Harden and Thomas Jane in Stephen King's The Mist ( 2007 ).
The single was accompanied by a memorable and much-parodied music video, directed by Terence Donovan, in which Palmer is surrounded by a bevy of near-identically clad, heavily made-up ( and appropriately pouty ) female " musicians ," either mimicking or mocking the painting of Patrick Nagel.
The lead single " Only Time Will Tell " became a popular Chart favourite in Canada (# 93 ), with a memorable video rotated on MTV for a brief period.
In 2006, IGN listed SHODAN at number four in their list of top most memorable video game villains, praising her for her constant physical and mental assaults against the player throughout the games.
In 2007, Tom's Games listed her as one of the " Top 50 Greatest Female Characters in Video Game History ", stating " There have been memorable villains in video game history, but none quite like SHODAN ".
McGrath is a competent outfielder with a strong and accurate throwing arm ; whilst not known for his athleticism, on one memorable occasion in 2002 he took an exceptional outfield catch at the Adelaide Oval against England, dismissing English batsman Michael Vaughan from the bowling of Shane Warne, running many metres before leaping into the air and catching the ball with arms outstretched and his body horizontal ( see Google Video video ).
The series proved moderately successful, and under the more memorable title, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, the series spawned a cartoon series premiered on CBS, an arcade game from Capcom, a home video game from Rocket Science Games, action figures, trading cards, candy bars, and a Twilight 2000 system role-playing game.
Rambo: First Blood Part II is the most recognized and memorable installment in the series, having inspired countless rip-offs, parodies, video games, and even imitations such as Missing in Action, Strike Commando and Rampage.
Inside it includes an unlockable classic biographies section, a memorable moments video compilation which features ten of the most memorable moments as judged by the FIFA 06 developers, a video compilation with a retrospective view of every game in the FIFA series and the chance to play the first ever game in the FIFA series which was titled as " FIFA 94 ".
He has been favorably received by video game critics and enthusiasts, with praise attributed to his antagonistic role in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, and his status as a strong example of a memorable, nuanced antihero in the medium.
The band came to the stage each night after a video montage of memorable Spectrum moments followed by the Rocky theme music.
Mania Entertainment placed her tenth in the 2010 list of " video game women that kick ass ," stating that while subsequent games in the Final Fantasy series introduced other memorable female characters, " Tifa is our first Final Fantasy girl and holds a special place in our hearts.
This memorable and much-played video featured colour clips of the band members, in blue shirts with tucked-in white ties, interspersed with surreal black-and-white images of bowler-hatted men inspired by Magritte's paintings.
The memorable and much-played video for " Is There Something I Should Know?
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* A song in the video game Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies.
In 1984, he directed the music video of Bruce Springsteen's song " Dancing In The Dark ".
Starting the following game, the song ( a favorite among many fans, who appreciated its references to Wild Bill Hagy and Earl Weaver ) was only played ( along with a video featuring several Orioles stars performing the song ) after wins.
She won an award for the Van Halen music video of the song " Right Now ", which she produced.
The music video for the song depicts the team rapping that they are " not here to start no trouble " but instead " just here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle ".
On August 2, 2011, Barrymore directed the music video for the song " Our Deal ", for the band Best Coast, which features Chloë Grace Moretz, Miranda Cosgrove, Tyler Posey, Donald Glover, Shailene Woodley and Alia Shawkat.
The music video for the 2006 Academy Award-nominated song Listen, performed by Beyoncé Knowles, received a director's cut by Diane Martel.
The song gave international exposure to the underground New Romantic movement when Bowie visited the London club " Blitz "— the main New Romantic hangout — to recruit several of the regulars ( including Steve Strange of the band Visage ) to act in the accompanying video, renowned as one of the most innovative of all time.
The song " Baby Doll " was used in the film Tapeheads, with newly recorded Swedish lyrics, and was credited to ( and shown in a music video by ) a fictitious Swedish band called Cube-Squared.
A promotional video was filmed for the song " Trilobites ".
The band has announced in a July 23, 2007, MySpace bulletin that a full length music video for the song was forthcoming, and the song itself is available on iTunes and eMusic.
Devo's song, " Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy ", was featured in EA Sports ' skateboard video game, Skate.
The song " Uncontrollable Urge " is featured in the video game Rock Band 2.
* " Euphoria ", a song by Kyle Ward from the video games In the Groove
The video to the song was shot in black and white and displays poignant footage of children and the destruction of the bombing.
November 2008 saw the release of And Winter Came ... with a new video for the song " Trains and Winter Rains ".
Fellini ’ s work is referenced on the albums Fellini Days ( 2001 ) by Fish and Funplex ( 2008 ) by the B-52's with the song Juliet of the Spirits, and in the opening traffic jam of the music video Everybody Hurts by R. E. M.
In 2007, the video for the Napalm Death song " You Suffer " set a new " Shortest Music Video " record: 1. 3 seconds.
This skyscraper was the filming location for R & B group Dru Hill's music video for " How Deep Is Your Love ," directed by Brett Ratner, who also directed the movie Rush Hour, whose soundtrack features the song.
A clear demonstration of this thumb technique can be witnessed in the Woodstock video ; during the song " Red House " there are closeups of Hendrix's fretting hand.
Several songs from the album received regular airplay on major North American rock stations, with Hatfield's song " My Sister " becoming the biggest hit of her career, with a # 1 placing on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and the video becoming an MTV staple.
At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for " Virtual Insanity " won four awards ; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video, and the band performed the song at the ceremony.
The video showed Tokyo-based ensemble Soemon playing member Brett Larner's arrangement of the Tool song " Lateralus " for six koto and two bass koto.
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