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Sagard The Barbarian
''Sagard the Barbarian'' is a series of four Hero's Challenge Gamebooks written by Gary Gygax, co-creator of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and Flint Dille, screenwriter ('' An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'', '' The Transformers: The Movie'') and game writer/designer ('' Dead to Rights'', '' The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay''). The four books star the eponymous hero Sagard the Barbarian, and are titled ''The Ice Dragon'', ''The Green Hydra'', ''The Crimson Sea'' and ''The Fire Demon''. They were 'fight a path' adventures which added a fighting game system to the normal pick-a-path game system. History Flint Dille met Gary Gygax while Gygax was in Hollywood and they began collaborating on a number of projects, including the ''Sagard the Barbarian'' gamebook series (1985-1986), which was published by Pocket Books Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books. History Pocket Books produced the first Paperback#Mass market ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Gygax
Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') with Dave Arneson. In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con tabletop game convention. In 1971, he co-developed ''Chainmail (game), Chainmail'', a miniatures wargame based on medieval warfare with Jeff Perren. He co-founded the company TSR (originally Tactical Studies Rules) with childhood friend Don Kaye in 1973. The next year, TSR published ''D&D'', created by Gygax and Arneson the year before. In 1976, he founded ''Dragon (magazine), The Dragon'', a magazine based around the new game. In 1977, he began developing a more comprehensive version of the game called ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons''. He designed numerous manuals for the game system, as well as several pre-packaged adventures called "modules" that gave a person running a ''D&D'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical Studies Rules, Tactical Studies Rules (TSR). It has been published by Wizards of the Coast, later a subsidiary of Hasbro, since 1997. The game was derived from miniature wargaming, miniature wargames, with a variation of the 1971 game ''Chainmail (game), Chainmail'' serving as the initial rule system. ''D&D'' publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry, which also deeply influenced video games, especially the Role-playing video game, role-playing video game genre. ''D&D'' departs from traditional wargame, wargaming by allowing each player to create their own Player character, character to play instead of a military formation. These characters embark upon adventures wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flint Dille
Flint Dille is an American screenwriter, game designer and novelist. He is best known for his animated work on ''Transformers'', ''G.I. Joe'', '' An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'', and his game-writing, '' The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay'', and ''Dead to Rights'', as well as a non-fiction book written with John Zuur Platten, ''The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design''. Personal background Dille was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Robert Crabtree Dille and Virginia Nichols Dille. He attended Glenbrook South High School. In 1977, he graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a Bachelor's degree in Ancient History and Classical Rhetoric. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Professional Writing (Cinema) from the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Flint Dille is the grandson of John F. Dille, publisher of the original ''Buck Rogers'' comic strip, and is part of the Dille Family Trust, which owned the rights to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fievel Goes West
''An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'' (also known as ''An American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West'' or ''An American Tail II'') is a 1991 American animated Western musical comedy adventure film directed by Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells (in their feature directorial debuts), with producer Steven Spielberg for Amblin Entertainment and animated by his Amblimation animation studio and released by Universal Pictures. A sequel to 1986's ''An American Tail'', the film follows the story of the Mousekewitzes, a family of Russian-Jewish mice who emigrate to the Wild West. In it, Fievel is separated from his family as the train approaches the American Old West; the film chronicles him and Sheriff Wylie Burp teaching Tiger how to act like a dog. ''Fievel Goes West'' was the first production for the short-lived Amblimation, a studio Spielberg set up to keep the animators of ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' (1988) working. It is also the only Amblimation film to use cel animation, the last in the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Movie
"The Movie" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the American television sitcom ''Seinfeld'' (and the 54th episode overall). It first aired on NBC in the United States on January 6, 1993. The episode revolves entirely around the characters' struggles to go to see a movie together. Plot Jerry has two stand-up acts scheduled for the same night; due to a delay in one of them, he cannot make both shows. A hopeful comedian, Buckles, hangs around to fill in when somebody drops out. Jerry intended to meet his friends to see a movie, ''CheckMate'', at 10:30. However, given the situation, he agrees to skip the movie and reschedule his act to the 11:00 slot. Jerry first heads to the earlier scheduled comedy act, only to learn that the act was scheduled for 9:15, not 9:50 as Jerry thought, and Buckles ended up filling his spot. Jerry then heads to the movie theater to inform his friends that he won't accompany them. Buckles insists on sharing the taxicab with Jerry, and irrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead To Rights
''Dead to Rights'' is a third-person shooter action video game series focusing on Jack Slate, a police officer in the fictional Grant City, and his K-9 partner Shadow. There are four games in the series. Games ''Dead to Rights'' ''Dead to Rights'', the first game in the series, was developed by Namco and released as a timed exclusive for the Xbox in 2002. Releases for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube followed thereafter, and the game was ported to Microsoft Windows a year later. The game focuses on Jack Slate, a police officer partnered with his dog Shadow. The two patrol Grant City, a metropolis seemingly populated with more criminals than honest citizens. One night while on a routine patrol, Jack responds to a call at a construction zone, only to find his own father murdered. In pursuit of his father's killer, Jack is led through a labyrinth of crime and corruption. ''Dead to Rights'' (Game Boy Advance) A top-down shooter based loosely on the original game. ''Dead t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escape From Butcher Bay
''The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay'' is a 2004 action-adventure game, action-adventure Stealth game, stealth game developed by Starbreeze Studios and Tigon Studios and published by Vivendi Universal Games. Released for the Xbox (console), Xbox and Microsoft Windows in 2004, the game's story is a prequel to the futuristic science fiction film ''Pitch Black (film), Pitch Black''. Actor Vin Diesel—who was involved in the game's development—reprises his role as that film's protagonist, Richard B. Riddick. The game follows Riddick, the anti-hero of the two films ''Pitch Black (film), Pitch Black'' and ''The Chronicles of Riddick'', as he attempts to escape from a maximum-security prison called Butcher Bay. ''Escape from Butcher Bay''s designers focused on exploring Riddick's character in a prison break setting to differentiate the game from the film. The game's influences include the film ''Escape from Alcatraz (film), Escape from Alcatraz'', and video games such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
