Though he thought the game lacked quality, seeing it prompted Bushnell to assign the project to Alcorn.

Though Nakajima wanted to try saving Atari Japan, owner Nolan Bushnell was already struggling to keep the parent company afloat due to undercapitalization and was looking to sell the Japanese subsidiary for some badly needed cash.

Though he knew no more about military science and tactics than any other desk officer, he managed to get transferred to the combat forces.

Though he had a happy childhood surrounded by his many siblings, his family knew Francis was likely to be a future Emperor ( his uncle Joseph had no surviving issue from either of his two marriages ), and so in 1784 the young Archduke was sent to the Imperial Court in Vienna to educate and prepare him for his future role.

Though the Dienststelle Ribbentrop concerned itself with German foreign relations with every part of the world, a special emphasis was put on Anglo-German relations, as Ribbentrop knew that Hitler favoured an alliance with Britain.

Though he knew repealing the laws would mean the end of his ministry, Peel decided to do so.

Though brought up a Lutheran, Queen Anne had in her youth lived with a niece of the Emperor Charles V, and not only knew something of the faith, but had frequently been present at mass with her former friend.

Though the performances were in English, of which Berlioz knew virtually none, he was still able to grasp the grandeur and sublimnity of Shakespeare's language along with the richness of the plays ' dramatic design.

Though Peake was an artist and poet who knew many years of perfect health and happy productivity, his paralysis caused by the Parkinson's disease that afflicted him during the last years of his life, is an undeniable influence on the novels.

Though Narita confessed that he knew nothing about Star Trek, Meyer replied that he did not want him to have any preconceived notions about the look of the series.

Though he initially denied any involvement by his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, eventually he claimed that she knew of her husband's dealings and typed some documents for him.

Though Cage Rage promoter Andy Geer said that the UFC show would not affect ticket sales for CR21, the signing of Sapp was a clear sign that the company knew it would need a superstar draw in order to successfully compete with the American promotion.

Though Yuan Shu knew Sun Ce intended to leave, he believed the latter would not be able to defeat Liu Yao.

Though Bentley had never been accused of attacking any of the police officers, who were shot at by Craig, for him to be convicted of murder as an accessory in a joint enterprise it was necessary for the prosecution to prove that he knew that Craig had a deadly weapon when they began the break-in.

Though he only knew a handful of guitar chords and improvised the majority of his lyrics ( as opposed to committing them to paper ), Suzuki was asked to perform with the band that same night.

* Though virtually nothing of the Jackal's past history is explored, he finds several of his underworld contacts through an old friend whom he knew in Katanga, indicating he is an ex-mercenary with a military or quasi-military background.

Though regarded by those who knew him personally as an intellectual heavyweight, he presented himself as a lightweight, semi-comic politician-the " clown prince " of Irish politics, in the words of long-time friend and journalist John Healy.

Though the two only knew each other for a few years, Hōnen entrusted Shinran with a copy of his secret work, the Senchakushū.

Though Casanova knew his table and claimed in his memoir to have been compiling a ( never completed ) dictionary of cheeses, his comment has been taken to refer mistakenly to a grana cheese very similar to the " Parmigiano ", the Grana Padano, is produced in the Lodi area.

" As one author later noted, " Though no one knew it at the time, Sister Teresa had just become Mother Teresa ".

Though the police were never informed, the family knew that Harry, Katherine's son, beat his mother to death in a drunken rage-which explains why her dogs did not sound an alarm-they knew the murderer.

Though he never knew the name of his father, he commented “ I suspect I know who he was ”.

Though he knew he needed the book to sell sufficient copies to make £ 2, 500 before he saw any profit, Edgar was confidently aware this would be achieved in the first three months of the book going on sale, hopelessly underestimating the expenses.

Though Harriman might be able to control the preferred stock, Hill knew the company bylaws allowed for the holders of the common stock to vote to retire the preferred.

Though agents in the GID knew there was a gap between what the radicals promised in their rhetoric and what they were capable of accomplishing, they nevertheless told Palmer they had evidence of plans for an attempted overthrow of the U. S. government on May Day 1920.

Though not the first system to challenge Atari, it was the first to pose a serious threat to Atari's dominance.

Though originally designed for the Apple II, the Koala eventually broadened its applicability to practically all home computers with graphics support, examples of which include the TRS-80 Color Computer, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit family.

Though rarely available in the domestic market, export models featured the internal 3. 5 " drive, just like an Atari ST or an Amiga.

Though its use of 3D polygonal graphics was predated by arcade rivals Namco ( Winning Run in 1988 ) and Atari ( Hard Drivin ' in 1989 ), Virtua Racing had vastly improved visuals in terms of polygon count, frame rate, and overall scene complexity, which all contributed to a greater sense of immersion.

Sega Master System port of Impossible Mission. Though originally developed for the Commodore 64, Impossible Mission was ported to the Apple II, Atari 7800, ZX Spectrum, Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, NES and Sega Master System.

" Though the two companies reached a tentative agreement, with final contract papers to be signed at the 1983 Summer Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ), Atari refused to sign at the last minute, after seeing Coleco, one of its main competitors in the market at that time, demonstrating a prototype of Donkey Kong for its forthcoming Coleco Adam home computer system Although the game had been originally produced for the ColecoVision and could thus automatically be played on the backwards compatible Adam computer, Atari took the demonstration as a sign that Nintendo was also dealing with Coleco.

Though TX-1 used raster graphics similar to the 1982 release Pole Position, developed by Namco and published by Atari, TX-1 used a unique surround-style, sit-down three-screen display.

Though the court initially denied the injunction, Atari successfully won on appeal ; the court noted that though K. C.

Though the system was never produced, the 2600s would get a sleeker update ( without built in controllers ) in 1986 with the Atari 2600 Jr ..

Though Atari could have tried to refine the device over time, Atari simply decided to shelve the Mindlink.

Though he periodically wears a powered exoskeleton, Luthor has traditionally lacked superpowers or a dual identity.

Though some sources claim that colonial American houses often lacked closets because of a " closet tax " imposed by the British crown, others argue that closets were absent in most houses simply because their residents had few possessions.

Though favourably received by the press – The Times described his music as having " a personal distinction and sincerity which is absent from the work of the Central European composers of today " – the experience convinced Tippett that he still lacked a watertight technique.

Though it is often not considered part of the genre since it lacked key RPG mechanics such as experience points, it had many features in common with RPGs and served as the template for the action role-playing game genre.

Though few surpassed him in knowledge of the forms of the House or in mastery of administrative details, he lacked tact in dealing with people and affairs.

Though he lacked the brilliant qualities of his rival Wallqvist, Nordin had the same alertness and penetration, and was more stable and disinterested.

Though it was still the fastest as it edged the RIVA TNT2 by a small margin, the Voodoo3 lacked 32-bit color and large texture support.

Though the EF military saw the need to fight ( mainly Londo Bell forces ), the civilians side of the EF lacked the resolve to fight and sought to negotiate with the with Neo Zeon.

Though Medieval gardens lacked many of the features of the Renaissance gardens that followed them, some of the characteristics of these gardens continue to be incorporated today.

Though nominally led by Sigismund, it lacked command cohesion.

Though it was fully elected, its 19 members initially lacked significant powers, as self-government was not granted until 1978.

Though she had plenty of free time during her days in the hospital to fold the cranes, she lacked paper.

Though he lacked the intimidating presence of a typical out-and-out striker, he more than made up for this with his keen sense of opportunism and sharp finishing skills.

“ Though he lacked the chops to become the next Chuck Berry, his name has been etched into the pantheon of rock ' n ' roll history .”

Though Singh entered politics in the late 60s, the first few years of his political life lacked success and recognition, till he was initiated in the Jan Sangh, by BJP stalwart Bhairon Singh Shekhawat who is considered to be Jaswant's political mentor.

Though the school lacked a campus, dormitories, and a cafeteria, students could engage in a wide range of extracurricular activities.

Though they lacked the ability to perform work for the Coast Guard and in 1989 they were sold to Spain and replaced with new P-3C aircraft.

Though the junior college was replaced by Delta College in 1961, the area still lacked a four-year baccalaureate institution.

Though an acknowledged genius at guitar design and construction, Moseley lacked many basic skills necessary to be a good businessman, and thus the company fell on hard times repeatedly in the late 1960s and 1970s, but continued to produce Mosrite guitars until 1993 in North Carolina and Arkansas.

Though he lacked sting when pitches were hard, on rain-affected pitches Tarrant could turn the ball extremely quickly from a perfect length.

Though it lacked a resident priest, Pala nonetheless served as the " mother " mission to chapels in Cahuilla, La Jolla, Pauma, Pichanga, Rincon, Santa Rosa, and Temecula.

Though it lacked a systematic framework and thus failed to outlast his death ( c. 1680 ), his great-grandson Bitòn Coulibaly would found a more stable Bambara Empire fifty years later on the same spot.

That session produced the first two singles released by Atlantic, a version of " Why ( Am I Treated So Bad )," a song previously recorded by The Staple Singers and a soulful version of " Let It Be Me ", a French song which had been a pop and R & B hit for Betty Everett & Jerry Butler in 1964. Though their first singles lacked much chart success, Atlantic was committed to the group, and an August session in Memphis yielded the bulk of songs used for the group ’ s self-titled debut album, released in the late fall of 1967.