Unlike today's farmers, vassals under feudalism were bound to cultivating their lord's land.

Unlike today's executive branches, they were assigned high-level tasks directly by senatorial decree under the authority of the SPQR.

Unlike today's meaning of subscription, this meant that a fixed number of people had to sign up and pay some amount before the concert could take place or the printing press started.

Unlike many of today's politicians and churchleaders, she refused to accept that the breakdown of the family was inevitable and she invested every effort into standing up for the interests of vulnerable children.

Unlike today's fake and " real " books that have " jazz ' in their titles, the Modern Jazz Fake Book included no standards, but only original tunes written and recorded by jazz musicians.

Unlike today's thick, ice cream like consistency, the original milkshakes were made with sweet cream ( sometimes frozen as " ice cream "), a whole egg, flavored syrup and soda water.

Unlike the two other projects, the resulting entity lived on after the construction project that gave birth to it, and it is the direct ancestor of today's Kaiser Permanente.

Unlike today's cell phone games, which usually have to be purchased, these games came pre-installed and could not be copied or removed.

Unlike today's limited releases, seats had to be reserved, one could not simply buy a ticket at the box office and go in to watch the film.

Unlike today's hallucinations, the voices of ancient times were structured by cultural norms to produce a seamlessly functioning society.

Unlike its cousin the wrestling ring, the ropes in a boxing ring are generally secured at the midway point.

Unlike many wrestling promotions, SWS had a wrestling roster that was divided into three stables, reminiscent of the sumo heya system.

Unlike Olympic wrestling, oil wrestling matches may be won by achieving an effective hold of the kisbet.

Unlike most villains, Killer Croc's actual identity is never revealed, the only indication of his real identity being that his wrestling name was " Killer Croc " Morgan.

Unlike Olympic wrestling, oil wrestling matches may be won by achieving an effective hold of the kisbet.

Unlike most wrestling games, Saikyō was a linear fighting game, but moves such as suplexes counted for heavy scoring, like in the real-life promotion.

Unlike most professional wrestling tag teams, Jerry " Biff " Sags and Brian " Buff " Knobs were childhood friends ( both hailing from Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania ) who put themselves together ( whereas most tag teams were and still are matched together by bookers ).

Unlike many Samoans in professional wrestling, he is not part of the large Anoa ' i or Fatu family.

Unlike many other pro wrestling games, most games in the Fire Pro Wrestling series are not licensed by any major professional wrestling promotion, but do feature likenesses of real-life wrestlers under different names.

Unlike in most other role-playing games, eventual triumph of the players is not assumed.

Unlike its predecessor games, CoC assumed that most investigators would not survive, alive or sane, and that the only safe way to deal with the vast majority of nasty things described in the rule books was to run away.

Unlike previous games, which had relied purely on General MIDI for music, Hexen is also able to play tracks from CDs.

Unlike the Intellivoice-specific games, however, World Series Major League Baseball is also playable without the Intellivoice module ( but not without the ECS.

Unlike many contemporary texts on the topic, he does not engage the games in the text with moralistic arguments ; instead, he portrays them in an astrological context.

Unlike any other system at that time, the Odyssey² included a full alphanumeric membrane keyboard, which was to be used for educational games, selecting options, or programming ( Magnavox released a cartridge called Computer Intro!

Unlike most other games released at the time, including its primary competitor, Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 requires an OpenGL-compliant graphics accelerator to run.

Unlike its namesakes, however, this AFL was able to command sufficient financial resources to survive ; one factor in this was becoming the first league to sign a television contract — previously, individual franchises had signed agreements with networks to televise games.

Unlike other first-person games of the time, System Shock features true 3D environments, and allows the player to look up and down, duck, go prone, jump, mantle, and lean to the side.

Unlike previous collections, this does not come with any printed documentation ( instead including PDF files containing the original manuals for copy protection purposes ), and the " Runs on Windows XP " blurb on the box is justified by an included copy of freeware application DOSBox, leaving many to see this edition ( and the simultaneous releases of the Police Quest, King's Quest and Space Quest collections ) as a cash-in to measure the viability of future games in the series.

Unlike many other strategy games available at the time of its release, Myths combat does not focus on the collection of resources and the building of armies.

Unlike previous games, however, Kyle does not exclusively select Light or Dark side powers in the single-player, instead receiving a selection of both.

Unlike most other text adventure games, the room descriptions of Suspended do not mention the directions of possible exits, which makes the map vital to playing.

Unlike previous Battle. net-enabled games, Warcraft III introduced anonymous matchmaking, automatically pairing players for games based on their skill level and game type preferences, preventing players from cheating and inflating their records artificially.

Unlike most writers, his pieces did not recount games in epic terms or offer insights gleaned from interviews with players.

Unlike Nintendo, Sega, Sony, or Microsoft in later decades, the hardware manufacturers in this era lost exclusive control of their platforms ' supply of games.

Unlike the 2010 Winter Olympics when CTV left the Olympic rings on the on-screen logo after the games were over not until removing them in January 2011 and re-adding them again a few months later, CTV quickly removed the Olympic rings on the screen bug the following day after the closing ceremony.

Unlike the previous year, however, the Bulls ' playoff run was shorter and less dramatic as they were eliminated by the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games.

Unlike the earlier 2D LucasArts games, the player is informed of objects or persons of interest not by text floating on the screen when the player passes a cursor over them, but instead by the fact that Manny will turn his head towards that object or person as he walks by.

Unlike future Mario games, players cannot jump on enemies and squash them, unless they were already turned on their back.

Unlike in the video games, she is occasionally seen using power-ups such as the Raccoon Leaf.

Unlike other lacrosse leagues which play in the summer, the NLL plays its games in the winter and spring.

Unlike in previous Mario games, coins are not used to get lives ; instead, they are used to play games in a special area that awards lives and other power-ups.