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Grey Dog Software

Grey Dog Software is a computer games development company, based in Phoenix, Arizona, and specializing in sports text simulations.

Hossein Derakhshan

His column there was called Panjere-i roo be hayaat (A Window to the Life, a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window), and later expanded to a weekly page on digital culture, Internet and computer games.

Roland Corporation

1987 – Roland MT-32 Sound Module: Also using Linear Arithmetic synthesis, it was supported by many PC games in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a high-quality music option until support shifted to General MIDI sound cards.

Silverball Studios

The company was founded in 2002 by Adrian Barritt and Richard Horrocks, makers of the award winning Pro Pinball series of computer games.

Star Fire

The game is featured as a background in the music video for Computer Games by New Zealand band Mi-Sex.

Steve Perrin

He worked at Interplay Productions, Maxis, and Spectrum Holobyte, doing game design, playtesting, and writing manuals for such computer games as Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, SimCity 2000, and Flight of the Intruder to name but a few.

Teutonic Knights in popular culture

The Teutonic Knights are featured in a variety of historically-themed computer games, including Medieval: Total War, Medieval II: Total War, in which the Order is equaled with the Templars and the Knights of Saint John in power.

The Electric Spanking of War Babies

Some of the deleted tracks appeared on later P-Funk releases, most notably the 1983 hit single "Atomic Dog" which appeared on the first George Clinton solo album, Computer Games.

TheGlobe.com

During the late 1990s, theGlobe.com expanded into gaming, purchasing Computer Games magazine, happypuppy.com (a computer gaming site), and Chips and Bits, an online store for computer and console gaming.


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13th Computer Olympiad

The 13th International Computer Games Championship, 16th World Computer Chess Championship and a scientific conference on computer games was held in Beijing, China from 28 September–5 October 2008.

Brian Jacks

His victories in the British and European Superstars led to the creation of the branded computer games: Brian Jacks Superstar Challenge and Brian Jacks Uchi Mata.

Bus NefAZ

The NefAZ 5299 series of buses has been used as a model in computer games: bus simulator OMSI in urban and suburban versions of Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and in the urban, suburban and long-distance versions if all three GTA games.

Cavedog Entertainment

Cavedog Entertainment was a label created in 1996 by Humongous Entertainment, a developer of children's computer games founded by Ron Gilbert and Shelley Day, to pursue the creation of mainstream games.

Christian video game

The Bible Computer Games Series was then released on the Apple IIe, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, and the Kaypro CP/M computer platforms in 1984.

Commodore Datasette

U.S. Gold, which imported American computer games to Britain, often had to wait until they were converted from disk because most British Commodore 64 owners used tape.

Creative Wonders

It created computer games based on children's characters like Sesame Street, Madeline, Schoolhouse Rock!, Arthur, Little Bear, Dr. Seuss and ABC World Reference.

David Williamson Shaffer

Epistemic games are computer games in which players engage in simulations of training in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) professions such as engineering and urban planning to develop epistemic frames of STEM thinking.

Eddy County, New Mexico

Within the Myst and Uru series of computer games, Eddy County is the fictional location of The Cleft, a fissure near a dormant volcano leading down to the large D'ni Cavern.

Edmond Hoyle

Hoyle's Official Book of Games, a series of computer games, named for Edmond Hoyle

Emrich

Alan Emrich, American writer about and designer of computer games

Faerie Tale

Subsequently he wrote the Serpentwar Saga, and The Riftwar Legacy series which is based in part on the hugely successful computer games set in his universe, Betrayal at Krondor and Return to Krondor.

Football Manager 2005

This is because Kahn does not allow his image or name to be used in certain computer games and it is speculated that his name was changed to Jens in the game (the name of his main goalkeeping rival, Jens Lehmann) as a light-hearted dig at Kahn.

Franz Fuchs

In computer games Hitman: Codename 47 and Hitman: Contracts, a character named Frantz Fuchs is an Austrian terrorist, who served in Hitlerjugend as a youngster, planning to blow up a hotel at which a peace summit is being held.

GameWeek Magazine

"Interactive entertainment" was a phrase that is attributed to the magazine, but became part of the industry's vernacular and was popularized by Hal Halpin, founder and publisher - representing the convergence of the console, online and computer games sectors.

Giancarlo Volpe

Graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 1997, Volpe began his career at Humongous Entertainment, animating on the children's computer games "Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening" and Putt-Putt Enters the Race.

Glenn Letsch

When Gamma disbanded in 1982, Pattison became Robin Trower's principal vocalist and Letsch continued with several of Ronnie Montrose projects and session work including playing bass on Sims computer games.

Hybrid disc

Blizzard Entertainment has released most of their computer games on hybrid CDs.

Imperium Galactica II: Alliances

Imperium Galactica II: Alliances is a real-time game featuring aspects of RTT, RTS and empire-building computer games from the Hungarian-based studio Digital Reality.

Ion Storm

(sometimes spelled ION Storm) was a Texas based developer of computer games founded by John Romero, Tom Hall (both former employees of id Software), Todd Porter, and Jerry O'Flaherty, under the slogan "Design is Law".

Jennifer Diane Reitz

Jennifer Diane Reitz (born 1959 in Baker, Oregon) is an American writer, webcomic author, and computer programmer, known for creating webcomics such as Unicorn Jelly, Pastel Defender Heliotrope and To Save Her, and computer games such as Boppin'.

Kelton Flinn

Air Warrior (1986) — This game, offered on GEnie, is a key milestone in the history of computer games because it was the first commercial multiplayer online game to add graphics, displaying a 3D airplane dogfight environment.

KZ Manager

KZ Manager is a name shared by many similar resource management computer games putting the player in the role of a Nazi concentration camp "manager", where the "resources" to be managed include, depending on the version of the game, prisoners (either Jews, Turks or Gypsies), poison gas supplies, "normal" money and various equipment, as well as "public opinion" on the "productivity" of the camp.

Mike Follin

After sixteen years in the computer games industry, working on the PlayStation version of Quake II amongst other titles, Follin left the industry to train as a priest in the Church of England.

MTV Flux

The first show broadcast on MTV Flux was: Up, Up, Down, Down... (short for the complete Konami Code which serves as its full official title), an hour-long show, hosted by Colin Griffiths nominally about computer games interspersed with music videos and user-submitted content.

Paul Ortiz

Ortiz has also composed for computer games, advertising, television and radio, his clients ranging from Red Bull to Dolby Laboratories, and mixed and mastered albums for other musicians.

Puzzle Collection

Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection, a collection of puzzle computer games including game designs by Alexey Pajitnov

Rainbow kick

The trick has also been featured in football computer games, including FIFA 08, where it is described as "One of the most famous soccer moves".

Richard Rashid

While at Rochester, he and Gene Ball wrote what is probably one of the earliest networked multiplayer computer games, Alto Trek, for Xerox Alto computers.

Robert S. Lancaster

Lancaster also created several shareware DOS computer games known collectively as The MicroLink Games.

Samwise Didier

He is responsible for creating much of the artwork for computer games in the Warcraft, StarCraft, and the Diablo series.

Sean Stewart

He served as a consultant on several computer games, and was on the management team of the 4orty2wo Entertainment experiential marketing and entertainment company, where he was lead writer for Haunted Apiary aka ilovebees and Last Call Poker.

St John's Innovation Centre

Jagex, developers and publishers of online computer games, including RuneScape and FunOrb, played by over 200 million users.

Steven C. Wade

Steven C. Wade (born 1983) is a Massively Multi-player Online Game/MMORPG veteran who has created and introduced several online computer games to the western markets, including: A Tale in the Desert Series from eGenesis, Last Chaos from Aeria Games, and most recently, Dragon Oath from the NASDAQ listed Changyou.com Ltd.

The Butch Cassidy Sound System

The Butch Cassidy Sound System is an alias used by the UK’s Michael Hunter who has composed music for the Grand Theft Auto computer games San Andreas & IV.

The Death Trap

Sakaguchi and Tanaka were friends at their university, often playing the Apple II game Wizardry, and computer games designed by Nasir Gebelli (of whom which would work for Square later on).

Tom Gaebel

Colin Gäbel is a singer and guitarist in addition to being a renowned TV presenter and reporter about computer games; he is a member of the rock band Mondo Kane.

Video game publisher

In the United States, revenue from the sales of video and computer games exceeded revenue from film box-office receipts for the first time in the dot-com days of the late 1990s, when technology companies in general were surrounded by hype.

Workmanship

Gonigal argues that computer games can be a source of ideas for doing this; she says the primary reason for World of Warcraft being so popular is the sense of "blissful productivity" that its players enjoy.