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Arcadians (video Game)
Nick Pelling is a British-born computer programmer and investigative writer best known as the creator of the 1984 game '' Frak!''."Desert Island Disks: Nick Pelling". ''Retro Gamer'' 26, pp. 82–85. Games Developed As Aardvark Software * ''Arcadians'' (1982) (unofficial version of Galaxian) * ''Zalaga'' (1983) (unofficial version of Galaga) * '' Frak!'' (1984) * ''Firetrack'' (1987) * '' Sharkey's 3D Pool'' (1989) * '' 3D Pocket Pool'' (2001) Independently * '' Bangkok Knights'' (1987) * '' Shinobi'' (1989) * ''Loopz'' (1990) * '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1993) * '' The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man'' (1993) * '' The Pagemaster'' (1994) * ''Mortal Kombat II'' (1994) * '' Wolverine: Adamantium Rage'' (1994) * ''Primal Rage'' (1995) * ''Batman Forever'' (1995) * '' The X-Files Game'' (1999) * ''In Cold Blood'' (2000) * ''Street Fighter Alpha 3'' (2002) * ''Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer'' (2002) * '' Championship Manager 5'' (2005) * '' Buzz!: The Music Quiz' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retro Gamer
''Retro Gamer'' is a British magazine, published worldwide, covering Retrogaming, retro video games. It was the first commercial magazine to be devoted entirely to the subject. Launched in January 2004 as a quarterly publication, ''Retro Gamer'' soon became a monthly. In 2005, a general decline in gaming and computer magazine readership led to the closure of its publishers, Live Publishing, and the rights to the magazine were later purchased by Imagine Publishing. It was taken over by Future plc on 21 October 2016, following Future's acquisition of Imagine Publishing. History The first 18 issues of the magazine came with a coverdisk. It usually contained freeware remakes of retro video games and emulators, but also videos and free commercial PC software such as ''The Games Factory'' and ''The Elder Scrolls: Arena''. Some issues had themed CDs containing the entire back catalogue of a publisher, such as Durell Software, Durell, Llamasoft and Gremlin Graphics. On 27 September 2005, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adamantium Rage
Adamantium is a fictional metal alloy, most famously appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is best known as the substance bonded to the character Wolverine's skeleton and claws. First mention in Marvel comics It was first mentioned in Marvel Comics in a story scripted by writer Roy Thomas and drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith and Syd Shores in '' The Avengers'' #66 (July 1969). Here, it is part of supervillain Ultron's outer shell. In the stories where it appears, the defining quality of adamantium is its indestructibility. Etymology The word is a pseudo-Latin neologism (real Latin: ''adamans'', from original Greek ''ἀδάμας'' indomitable ''adamantem'' atin accusative based on the English noun and adjective ''adamant'' (and the derived adjective ''adamantine'') added to the neo-Latin suffix " -ium". The adjective ''adamant'' has long been used to refer to the property of impregnable, diamond-like hardness, or to describe a firm/resolute position. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Nukem 3D
''Duke Nukem 3D'' is a 1996 first-person shooter, first-person shooter game developed by 3D Realms and published by FormGen for MS-DOS. It is a sequel to the platform games ''Duke Nukem (video game), Duke Nukem'' and ''Duke Nukem II'', published by 3D Realms. ''Duke Nukem 3D'' features the adventures of the titular Duke Nukem (character), Duke Nukem, voiced by Jon St. John, who fights against an alien invasion on Earth. Along with ''Wolfenstein 3D'', ''Doom (1993 video game), Doom'' and ''Quake (video_game), Quake'', ''Duke Nukem 3D'' is considered to be responsible for popularizing first-person shooters, and was released to major critical acclaim. Reviewers praised the interactivity of the environments, gameplay, level design, and unique risqué humor, a mix of pop-culture satire and lampooning of over-the-top Hollywood action heroes. However, it also incited controversy due to its violence, erotic elements, and Gender representation in video games, portrayal of women. The shar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chaos Engine
''The Chaos Engine'' is a top-down run and gun video game developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade Software in March 1993. The game is set in a steampunk Victorian age in which one or two players must battle the hostile creations of the eponymous Chaos Engine across four landscapes and ultimately defeat it and its deranged inventor. It was first released for the Amiga, with a version available for AGA Amigas, and later ported to MS-DOS, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari ST, Amiga CD32, RISC OS and Mega Drive. In the Super NES and Mega Drive versions, the Preacher character was renamed as the Scientist and redesigned to remove his clerical collar. The US versions of these two ports were retitled ''Soldiers of Fortune''. A sequel to the game, '' The Chaos Engine 2'', was released in 1996. Plot The setting is a steampunk Victorian era England. A time traveller on a reconnaissance mission from the distant future became stranded in the England of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Quiz
''Buzz!: The Hollywood Quiz'' is a party video game developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It is the fifth instalment in the ''Buzz!'' series. Players have to answer questions asked by the quiz master (the eponymous Buzz) using the four Buzz! remote controls. There are two games available in the single player mode, which are Time Builder, where answering questions will gain time in the final round, and Hotseat, where players must answer as many questions as they can, using the time they accumulated in Round 1. To gain points, players must bank when appropriate. If they get a question wrong, they lose all the points they did not bank. Rounds Hollywood Stars Similar to 'Point Picker', players choose a category on a big wheel to determine the next questions to be asked. Then each player answers the question to earn points. Fastest Finger A photo clue appears on screen and players then have to buzz in with the corre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mega Quiz
''Buzz!: The Mega Quiz'' is a 2007 party video game developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It is the fourth instalment in the ''Buzz!'' series. ''Buzz! The Mega Quiz'' has over 5,000 questions. Along with '' Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party'', this was one of the first Buzz games released in North America, also the first game in the series to have a 12+ rating by PEGI. Rounds Multiplayer Rounds Point Picker A little similar to ''Point Builder'' in the other Buzz! games, in that it is usually the first round, but players can choose the question topic. Winner Stays On In this round a question is asked and two pictures are shown. Once all the players have answered, those who answered the question incorrectly are eliminated and the others are given points. This repeats until the questions have been asked four times or one or fewer players remain. Fastest Finger Exactly the same as the namesake round in other Buzz! games. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The BIG Quiz
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Music Quiz
''Buzz!: The Music Quiz'' is a party music video game developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It is the first instalment of the ''Buzz!'' series and was released exclusively in Europe. In ''The Music Quiz'', players answer questions asked by the host, Buzz, by using the four Buzz! buzzers. Gameplay ''Buzz!: The Music Quiz'' is a music quiz trivia game for up to four players. The game is set in a fictional TV studio, and hosted by the characters Buzz and his assistant Rose. Each copy of the game comes with a total of four buzzer controllers, which are plugged into the USB slots on the Sony PlayStation 2 console. They feature a sizable red button on top and four colored buttons below, sorted in descending order. Buzz can pick around 5000 questions from a 50-year period of pop music, supported by 1000 music clips which represent parts of the original songs processed by a synthesizer, and appear without any lyrics or vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
