It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.

It was strictly the deputy's game, but McBride had gone too far to throw in.

And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

To me it was a game, to her it was the deadly seriousness of life.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Enough of his life was spent there on the field for him never to like watching the game as a spectator in the crowd.

It was rather a childish game, all in all, but everybody seemed to be getting into the spirit of the thing and he could not remember when he had enjoyed planning anything quite so much.

`` Bull tailin' '' was a game once pop'lar with the Mexican cowboys of Texas.

( In the graveyard at Nairobi he had been shown the graves of thirty-four big game hunters killed hunting the animals he was attempting to lasso.

This was a bitterly fought game, carrying almost as much grudge as a fist fight, with no friendliness exhibited between the teams except the formal politeness that accompanied the setting forth of ground rules and agreements on balls that went into the crowd.

Every pitch in the game brought forth a howl from the enraptured audience and every fly ball the visitors dropped ( and because their right fielder was still a little fuzzy from drink, they dropped many ) called forth yelps of derision.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Ruth was a delinquent boy still, but he was in every way a great ball player who was out to win the game and occasionally risked a cracked bone to do it.

The game was conceived by Lyle Rains and programmed and designed by Dominic Walsh and Ed Logg.

However, the game characters would often have " added personality " programmed onto them.

Typically a game project requires two jobs to be completed: sounds must be recorded or selected from a library and a sound engine must be programmed so that those sounds can be incorporated into the game's interactive environment.

Traditional game shows Win Ben Stein's Money and Street Smarts were also acquired around this time and aired in various time slots, though neither was regularly programmed as of mid-March 2008.

The network also programmed Burt Luddin's Love Buffet, a combination of scripted scenes and a Newlywed Game-esque " game show-within-a-show " that starred famous Groundlings alum, John Cervenka as Burt Luddin.

The network has run blocks of classic game shows on Saturday nights, and for the first few months of 2006 programmed back-to-back episodes of Match Game in a block billed as That ' 70s Hour ( a pun on That ' 70s Show ), which showed the original production slate before each episode as well as Match Game trivia and brief clips of an interview with host Gene Rayburn produced shortly before his death.

Gameplay in Shenmue is diverse ; while most of the game is spent walking around the Japanese locations in a third-person ' chase cam ' mode ( talking to people, searching for things, and so forth ), it is interspersed with many ' mini-games ', including forklift and motorcycle races, bar fights, chases down crowded alleys, full versions of Sega arcade games Space Harrier and Hang-On ( both originally programmed by Shenmue creator and director, Yu Suzuki ), dart games, and fighting sequences.

Spock, who had programmed the Enterprises computer to be unbeatable at the game, plays five matches with the computer and easily wins each one, proving the machine — the source of seemingly irrefutable evidence confirming Kirk's guilt — had been tampered with, thereby destroying its credibility in its account of the incident.

The UnrealScript interpreter was programmed by Tim Sweeney, who also created an earlier game scripting language, ZZT-oop.

The game was designed by Brian Fargo, Michael A. Stackpole, Ken St. Andre and Alan Pavlish, and programmed by Pavlish for Interplay Productions.

Star Raiders is a video game for the Atari 8-bit family of computers, released in 1979 and programmed by Doug Neubauer.

The game was originally programmed by Keith Brors and Brad Myers, and it was developed by George MacDonald.

It was designed by Paul Reiche III ( also created the graphics for the game ) and Jon Freeman, and programmed by Anne Westfall.

Peer Schneider of IGN. com gave the game a rating of 2. 5 out of 10, citing the graphics, controls, and gameplay, saying it " Looks and plays like it was programmed in two weeks.

Sonic Heroes uses the RenderWare engine so that the game could be programmed and ported easily to the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows.

The technical remedy is to attempt to substitute brute-force methods capitalizing on the computing power of a system, such as those that enable a supercomputer programmed to " play " chess against a grandmaster whose tacit knowledge of the game is broad and deep.

Another complaint was that the game was programmed in such a way as to allow players to get ahead of themselves by entering certain areas of the game without having first obtained the necessary equipment beforehand.

Linley's Dungeon Crawl ( or just Dungeon Crawl or Crawl ) is a roguelike computer game originally programmed by Linley Henzell in 1995, and first released to the general public on October 1, 1997.

All weapons can be upgraded eight times through the game ( the sword's last orb is obtainable through a programmed " glitch " in the game ), and repeated use increases their Skill Levels to a maximum of eight, unlocking a new charged attack with each level.

The game was programmed primarily by Nasir Gebelli and produced by veteran Square designer Hiromichi Tanaka.

* Though not the first " questing " computer game, Adventure was the first to be programmed for a home console.

Jason Jones programmed the game, while his friend Colin Brent developed the environments and creatures.