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Blazer

Another mod band, Small Faces, and other bands liked by mods — such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Kinks, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Moody Blues and The Troggs — had band members wearing striped blazers/boating jackets or later, brightly coloured blazers with wide white or other light edging.

Capture the flag

CTF mods are available for multiple first person shooters, including Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, which is a free download using the game engine from the popular Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Charles Thomas Le Quesne

He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and Exeter College, Oxford where he received a 1st class Honors in Mods in 1906 and a 1st class in Lit.

Data East

Data East is the only company that manufactured custom pinball games (e.g. for Aaron Spelling, the movie Richie Rich, or Michael Jordan), though these were basically mods of existing or soon to be released pinball machines (e.g. Lethal Weapon 3).

Dear Esther

The original rendition of Dear Esther was one of several mods developed by The Chinese Room while the studio was still a research project at the University of Portsmouth.

Doom WAD

Iikka Keränen, author of several Doom WADs and later Quake mods, was hired by Ion Storm to create levels for Anachronox and Daikatana, and by Looking Glass Studios to create levels for Thief II: The Metal Age.

Gamemaster

Transformice, an MMORPG, has a team of volunteer moderators called Mods who are experienced players that help moderate the game and interactions.

GameSpy

Mark Surfas saw the need for hosting and distribution of these mods and created PlanetQuake, a Quake-related hosting and news site.

Manifesto Games

A team of reviewers including Greg Costikyan and Emily Short post one review per day at the website, covering independent, alternative reality and 'big urban' games, interactive fiction, and mods.

Midtown Madness 2

Silver Eagle Fire Truck (Cut vehicle, only available through the use of mods)

Mutator

Mutators, in the Unreal series are simple Mods that can make small changes to the basic gameplay

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

These mods include Iron Europe: 1914-1916, a mod about World War I, In Country: Vietnam, a mod about the Vietnam War, and Karelian Front, a mod about the Continuation War.

Stefan Jarl

He made the Mods Trilogy, three films which follow a group of alienated people in Stockholm from the 1960s to the 1990s, They Call Us Misfits (1968), A Respectable Life (1979) and Det sociala arvet (1993).

Voodoo Amplification

Noted users of Voodoo's production amps and circuit mods are (according to the manufacturer) include Vivian Campbell and Phil Collen (of Def Leppard), Doug Aldrich (of Whitesnake), Michael Wilton (of Queensrÿche), Kip Winger, Jack Frost, Richard Fortus (of Guns N' Roses), Buz McGrath and Ken Susi (of Unearth) and famed producer Michael Wagener.


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