When label founder and president Seymour Stein heard his demo, he said, " He sounds like Bob Dylan.

When Romero saw the demo, entitled " Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement ", he realized that Carmack's breakthrough could have potential, the team that would later form Id Software immediately began moonlighting, going so far as to " borrow " company computers that were not being used over the weekends and at nights while they designed their own remake of Super Mario Bros. 3.

When Diary of a Camper was created, no software tools existed to edit demo files into films.

When they started working on the album and were trying to re-record the vocals, Williams felt unsatisfied with it, so he decided to include the demo version and then release it as the first single.

When Interplay financed " exploratory development ", BioWare presented the publishers with a demo called Battleground: Infinity.

When Simon Gilbert heard Anderson playing back the tape whilst going through audition tapes, he mistakenly believed it to be an early Suede demo.

When the Lynns reached Nashville, the song was a hit, climbing to No. 14 on Billboard's C & W Chart, and Lynn began cutting demo records for the Wilburn Brothers ' Publishing Company.

When former colleague Kevin Rowland heard these demo tapes, he invited O ' Hara to join Dexys, and adopted a similarly folk-influenced sound for his own group.

When a print workbook version fell through, McCall's company decided to produce their own animated versions of the songs, which they then sold to ABC ( which was already the advertising company's biggest account ) based on a demo animation of the original " Three Is A Magic Number " for its Saturday morning lineup.

Featuring new musical numbers ( Svetlana's " Han är en man, han är ett barn " (" He is a man, he is a child ") and Molokov's " Glöm mig om du kan " (" Forget me if you can " from the demo song " When The Waves Roll Out to Sea ") and focusing on material from the concept album, the Stockholm version was a drastic rewrite.

When the Commodore Amiga appeared, many former C64 demo programmers switched platforms and continued to make demos for the Amiga ( see Amiga demos ).

When that happened, they would put icepacks on the back and let it cool down, then get back to recording the demo.

When they screened a demo for Paramount and made their pitch, the studio was impressed and reportedly " gave Malick a very sweet deal at the studio, carte blanche, essentially ".

When the band started shopping their demo ( credited as Peter Criss ) around the response was universally negative.

When he sent a demo to EMI in October 1974 they quickly wanted to make an LP with him.

When she was 17, she sang at a friend's party and was spotted by a music producer, who invited her to do a demo.

They recorded two demo tapes: When Death Joins Us ... in 1990 and Rotting Ways to Misery in 1991.

When composing a soundtrack for a video game, Sakimoto first sits down with the director or producer of the game and works out what emotions they want the game to evoke in the player, and after making a demo for them, sets out to create music that fits that feeling.

When A & R Javier Portugués and Columbia director Raúl López listened the demo they, Portugués later told HitQuarters, stared at each other in delight exclaiming, " Wow, this is fantastic !".

When Tina Turner heard a demo of his song ' Paradise Is Here ' she recorded it for her Break Every Rule album of 1986.

When Saraceno was still a teenager, his then manager sent a demo tape to singer Michael Bolton, who decided to enlist him to play on a song for Cher's album, Heart of Stone.

When the Style Council reformed for a one off gig for Japanese TV in 1990, Paul Weller invited White to his studio to hear a few demo tracks.

When they recorded the original demo for Enema of the State, it is believed that Scott Raynor played the drums, meaning that Tom and Mark were either thinking of firing him before it happened and wrote this song, or it is not about him.

When Dogwood's album Building a Better Me was completed ahead of schedule, O ' Donnell and Noise Ratchet drummer Brandon Young used the remaining studio time to record Reeve Oliver's first 5-song demo.

When the visitors, after losing this game, rode along the village streets toward home, the youngsters who could keep abreast of them for a moment or two screamed triumphantly, `` You bunch of hay-shakers!!

When it was decided that Asteroids would be a vector game as well, Delman modified a Lunar Lander circuit board for Ed Logg.

When in “ 7800 ” mode ( signified by the appearance of the full screen Atari logo ), the graphics are generated entirely by the MARIA graphics processing unit, all system RAM is available and game data is accessed in larger 48K blocks.

When emulators of 1980s video game consoles began to appear on home computers in the late 1990s, the Atari 7800 was one of the last to be emulated.

* SVO — Save opportunity: When a pitcher 1 ) enters the game with a lead of three or fewer runs and pitches at least one inning, 2 ) enters the game with the potential tying run on base, at bat, or on deck, or 3 ) pitches three or more innings with a lead and is credited with a save by the official scorer

When the last hand has finished being played, the dealer reveals the hole card, and stands or draws further cards according to the rules of the game for dealer drawing.

When the cube is centered, the player about to roll may propose that the game be played for twice the current stakes.

When the deal is complete, all players pick up their cards, or ' hand ', and hold them in such a way that the faces can be seen by the holder of the cards but not the other players, or vice versa depending on the game.

When a game becomes sufficiently popular, so that people often play it with strangers, there is a need for a generally accepted set of rules.

When a tile of this pair is played individually in the game of Tien Gow, each takes its regular ranking among other military suit tiles according to the total points.

When joining the game, money ( and I. D., if necessary ) should be placed on the table rather than passed directly to a dealer.

When a game goes to overtime, each team is given one possession from its opponent's twenty-five yard line with no game clock, despite the one timeout per period and use of play clock.

When the game design phase began in late 1992, the main thematic influences were the science fiction action film Aliens and the horror film Evil Dead II.

When, three years later, 3D Realms released Duke Nukem 3D, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction shooter based on Ken Silverman's technologically similar Build engine, id Software had nearly finished Quake, its next-generation game, which mirrored Dooms success for the remainder of the 1990s and significantly reduced interest in its predecessor.

When The Monkees finished in 1969 – 70, I should have got away from Hollywood and got back into the racing game.

When a human played the game against the computer, the computer queried the Earl Weaver or Tony La Russa Expert System for a decision on what strategy to follow.

When CBC was denied a new licensing agreement with MLBAM ( they had acquired the rights from the baseball players ' association ) for its fantasy baseball game, CBC filed suit.

When a pilot moves the control column ( or sidestick ), a signal is sent to a computer ( analogous to moving a game controller ) the signal is sent through multiple wires ( channels ) to ensure that the signal reaches the computer.

When he finished work on that game, he found he was not compatible with the Prey development team at Apogee, and therefore left to join his ex-Id compatriot John Romero at Ion Storm.

When players run out of hexagons to build the island, the game is over.

When one of the two programmers left CompuNet, the remaining programmer, Alan Lenton, decided to rewrite the game from scratch and named it Federation II ( at the time no Federation I existed ).

When a mage performs an act of magic that does not seriously violate this commonsense version of reality, in game terms this is called coincidental magic.

When the Bank Street ground was temporarily closed by bailiffs in 1902, club captain Harry Stafford raised enough money to pay for the club's next away game at Bristol City and found a temporary ground at Harpurhey for the next reserves game against Padiham.