The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japanese branch were I. R. M Corporation founded on May 30, 1979, as well as its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., both of which were devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines.

The strip has spawned several books, an animated television series, a video game, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandise items.

It is likely that ELIZA was also on the system where Will Crowther created Colossal Cave ( Adventure ), the 1975 game that spawned the interactive fiction genre.

The game was very successful and spawned a whole series of titles.

The game soon spawned several follow-ups including Karaoke Revolution Vol.

The series also spawned a board game called Xanth by Mayfair Games.

The original game has spawned a vast franchise that includes a collectible card game, two miniature-based wargames, multiple video games, a series of novels and music.

The Shadowrun role-playing game has spawned Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game, four video games, an action figure game ( Shadowrun Duels ), two magazines, an art book and more than 50 novels, starting with the Secrets of Power series which introduces some of the original characters of Shadowrun and gives a good introduction to this fictional universe.

The earliest predecessor of the game, chaturanga, originated in India in the 6th century, and sometime in the 10th to 12th centuries Chinese chess, xiangqi, was brought to Japan where it spawned a number of variants.

) While this retcon is never addressed in the game itself it spawned a full-fledged fangame, Space Quest: The Lost Chapter.

The film and its successors spawned countless imitators that borrowed elements instituted by Romero: Tombs of the Blind Dead, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie ( film ), Zombi 2, Hell of the Living Dead, Night of the Comet, Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, Children of the Living Dead, and the video game series Resident Evil ( later adapted as films in 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2010 ), Dead Rising, and House of the Dead.

Advanced Squad Leader ( 1985 ) became a niche hobby in and of itself, and Axis and Allies ( 1984 ) was very popular with the mass market audience and Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battle ( 1983 ) spawned a long-lasting line popular miniatures games including the successive editions of Warhammer and the science-fantasy Warhammer 40, 000 game.

In the 1860s, aided by the Civil War, " New York "- style baseball expanded into a national game and spawned baseball's first governing body, The National Association of Base Ball Players, was formed.

Beggar-My-Neighbour ( alternatively Beggar-Thy-Neighbour or Beggar-Your-Neighbour, each a bowdlerization reflecting the substitution of " beggar " for " bugger "), also known by the etymologically unrelated names Jack Daniels, Beat Jack Out of Doors, Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, Beat your Neighbour Out of Town, Strip Jack Naked, Picture and Draw the Well Dry, is a simple card game somewhat similar in nature to War, and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian Ratscrew.

The game has spawned two series, known as the Bhaalspawn Saga and the Dark Alliance, both taking place mostly within the Western Heartlands, but the Bhaalspawn Saga extend to Amn and Tethyr.

This reorganization also spawned a new championship system in which the best record holders from each division would play in a title game for the conference championship.

The game spawned a number of sequels, collectively known as the Monkey Island series.

The game spawned the Mario RPG series, and two successive RPG-themed spiritual sequels followed: the Paper Mario series and the Mario & Luigi series, both of which use certain conventions established in the original.

The film spawned a franchise of related items and memorabilia such as action figures, head bands, posters, T-shirts and a video game.

He is best known for creating Earthworm Jim, a character that spawned a video game, cartoon series, and toy line.

The game begins with each player being spawned ( starting ) at random locations — picked from a fixed predefined set.

The development of Doom started in 1992, when John D. Carmack developed a new 3D game engine, the Doom engine, while the rest of the id Software team finished the Wolfenstein 3D prequel, Spear of Destiny.

* Silent Hill: Origins, the fifth installment of the Silent Hill survival horror series and prequel to the original 1999 game

Descent 4 was a game being developed by Volition as part of the Descent game franchise, as a prequel to Descent.

In 1992, after the two World of Greyhawk Swords prequel modules and the Greyhawk Wars game had been on the market for some months, TSR released the new Greyhawk setting, From the Ashes, a boxed set primarily written by Carl Sargent that described the Flanaess in the aftermath of the Greyhawk Wars.

Hook later appears in the game series prequel, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, where he tricks Terra into attempting to kill Peter Pan for him.

Despite its title, this game serves as a prequel to all other games within the established Mario Bros timeline.

Also presented was a short animated ' prequel ' to the story in the style of the upcoming feature-length film detailing the Martians ' ecological destruction of their own world ( which was originally made for the 1998 computer game Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds ) and their preparations to invade Earth, and including a short remix of " The Red Weed ".

Markedly improved from the prequel, DKC2 was praised for having excellent graphics, plot and characterisation and as a result DKC2 has received much critical and commercial praise, having sold millions of copies worldwide on the SNES, making it the second best selling game of 1995 and the sixth best-selling game on the platform overall.

Vastly different from its predecessor and prequel La Fortune des Rougon, La Curée, the portion of the game thrown to the dogs after a hunt, usually translated as The Kill-is a character study of three personalities: Aristide Rougon ( renamed " Saccard ")-- the youngest son of the ruthless and calculating peasant Pierre Rougon and the bourgeois Félicité ( by whom he is much spoiled ), both of them Bonapartistes and consumed by a desire for wealth, Aristide's young second wife Renée ( his first dying not long after their move from provincial Plassans to Paris ) and Maxime, Aristide's foppish son from his first marriage.

* Tron: Evolution, a 2010 video game that serves as a prequel to the movie Tron: Legacy.

Developed as the prequel to the original, the Red Alert series was spun-off into a separate, lighthearted and comic series, while the original game and its sequels became known as the " Tiberium " series, retaining its sci-fi and serious tone.

Spear of Destiny, often also called Spear, Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny or just SoD, is a 1992 first-person shooter computer game developed by id Software and published by FormGen Corporation, and is the prequel to id Software's Wolfenstein 3D.

This is a prequel to the main game, mainly for children.

* Constructor ( video game ), a 1997 PC game by Acclaim, the prequel of Constructor: Street Wars

** Spear of Destiny ( video game ), the prequel for the above game, released in 1992

* Dead Space: Extraction, a video game for the Wii that serves as a prequel to the 2008 video game Dead Space

Two sequels, Halo 2 and Halo 3, a side game, Halo 3: ODST, and a prequel, Halo: Reach, were released in 2004, 2007, 2009, and 2010, respectively.

Castle Wolfenstein inspired the game Wolfenstein 3D and its prequel Spear of Destiny by id Software, which were both released in 1992 and helped popularize the first-person shooter genre.

In April 2011, Chaosium and new developer Red Wasp Design announced a joint project to produce a mobile video game based on the Call of Cthulhu RPG entitled Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.

In his 1810 book entitled The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Joseph Strutt describes the way pall mall was played in England in the early 17th century: " Pale-maille is a game wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins.

In 1996, programmer Kevin Horton released the first homebrew game for the ColecoVision, a Tetris clone entitled Kevtris .< ref name =" kevtris ">

The Hezbollah Central Internet Bureau released a video game in 2003 entitled Special Force and a sequel in 2007 in which players are rewarded with points and weapons for killing Israelis.

Hunt the Wumpus was adapted as an early game for the Commodore PET entitled Twonky, which was distributed in the late 1970s with Cursor Magazine.

* A western example, the 2004 expansion to the trading card game Magic: The Gathering entitled Champions of Kamigawa features kami and Shinto as the basis for the ongoing storyline of the series.

Alfonso also describes a game entitled " astronomical chess ", played on a board of seven concentric circles, divided radially into twelve areas, each associated with a constellation of the Zodiac.

For example in an " eight or better to qualify low " game, a player with an eight-high hand ( or better low such as seven-high ) is entitled to win the low half of the pot ( assuming his hand defeats all other low hands ), but a player with a 10-high or 9-high hand cannot win, even if his hand is the lowest.

In 1999, KID developed a video game for the PlayStation entitled Pepsiman.

A preview included with id's very first release, 1990's Commander Keen, advertised a game entitled The Fight for Justice as a follow-up to the Keen trilogy.

Another Space Quest began development by Escape Factory for the Microsoft Xbox video game console in 2002, entitled simply Space Quest.

* Red Coca-Cola themed unit, in 1994, which came with a game entitled Coca-Cola Kid.

Super Bowl XXVI was featured in the episode of The Simpsons entitled " Lisa the Greek ", which aired three days prior to the game and correctly predicted that Washington would win.

The story is now told non-linearly, beginning with the third stage of the game, entitled Return.

One song left off the album, the 27-minute long instrumental entitled " The Odyssey ", was later featured on soundtrack for the video game, Halo 2.

* In early 2009, comic book artist and animator Brad Neely created a Web animation entitled " American Moments of Maybe ", a satirical video game advertisement for Nat Turner's Punchout!

He contributed to the Tomb Raider project entitled Tomb Raider: Anniversary ( an enhanced version of the original Tomb Raider game ), which was released in 2007.

Later, they created a simplified board game entitled simply Lankhmar which was released by TSR in 1976.

A mission pack was released for the game in 1999 by 2015, Inc., entitled SiN: Wages of Sin.

She ponders about medical experiments conducted by Nazi physicians ; about the gas chambers in the death camps, implicitly comparing a crowded New York subway with a cattle wagon to Auschwitz ; the Nazis making soap with human fat ; Pope Pius XII and Roman Catholicism ; displaced Jews after World War II ; anti-Semitism in general ; Neo-Nazis in Germany and Austria ; the world population of Jews in 1939 and today and the fact that there were " no Jews left " in Poland after World War II ; business in the DP camps ( i. e. bartering with cigarettes ), coffee but also Nazi memorabilia ; and she considers with disgust a video game on CD-ROM entitled " How to Survive the Holocaust ".

In November 2008, GSN and Meow Mix presented a special entitled Think Like a Cat, hosted by Chuck Woolery, with a top prize of $ 1, 000, 000, one of the few times a game show on cable TV has had that amount as a grand prize.

In the Gamecube title Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Mario rescues a Yoshi egg that hatches and joins his team during the third chapter of the game entitled " Of Glitz And Glory ".

A puzzle book entitled 100 Boggle Puzzles ( Improve Your Game ) offering 100 game positions was published in the UK in 2003 but is no longer in print.