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14th Murray's Jat Lancers

The 14th Murray's Jat Lancers appear as (Jat Lancer) in the computer game Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties.

All Roads

All Roads is a 2001 interactive fiction game by Jon Ingold that placed first at the 2001 Interactive Fiction Competition.

Avara

He wanted to show the technology to a gaming evangelist and was readying the demos on a PowerBook in the main hall at the San Jose Convention Centre when Stuart Cheshire (the author of Bolo for Macintosh) happened to sit right behind him and see what Juri was doing.

Battlefield Mod Development Toolkit

Battlefield Mod Development Toolkit (MDT) is a collection of software utilities released by Electronic Arts that help creating mods for the computer games Battlefield 1942 (2002) and Battlefield Vietnam (2004).

Brad Fregger

He was the producer of Activision's Ghostbusters, the game Hacker, the Atari and Commodore 64 versions of Pitfall II and Shanghai (the first commercial version of Brodie Lockard's Mahjong solitaire), and he designed and produced the first commercial version of computer solitaire (Solitaire Royale, published by Spectrum Holobyte).

Bruce Shelley

At MicroProse, he was Sid Meier's assistant designer for Railroad Tycoon (1990), Covert Action (1990), and Civilization (1991).

David Ethan Kennerly

He localized Korea's first world, Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds, and designed the social system of Dark Ages: Online Roleplaying.

Delta Squad

They first appeared in the video game Star Wars: Republic Commando and later were seen in the novel Triple Zero.

Dol Ammad

The band derives its name from a fuel refinery in the computer game Descent 3.

First Star Software

is a Chappaqua, New York computer game development, publishing and licensing company, founded by Richard Spitalny (who remains the company's president) and Fernando Herrera in 1982.

Frak!

Frak! is a 1980s computer game originally programmed by Orlando (aka Nick Pelling) for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron and published by his own 'Aardvark' software label in 1984.

Free Fall Associates

For their first title, inspired by sword-and-sorcery themes and the holographic chess-like game featured in Star Wars, they set to work on Archon.

G@mers

G@mers is a computer and video games television show, originally produced by and shown on Rapture TV from 1999-2006.

Game Sprockets

Game Sprockets is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) supporting gaming on the classic Mac OS.

Glenn Wichman

Glenn R. Wichman (born in 1960 in Bay City, Michigan) is a software developer who is best known as one of the original authors of the computer game Rogue, along with Michael Toy, Ken Arnold and Jon Lane.

Guy Whitmore

Guy Whitmore is a composer specializing in video game music, notable for creating the soundtracks to Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza, Russian Squares, Shivers, Shivers II: Harvest of Souls, Blood, Blood II: The Chosen, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and No One Lives Forever.

In-game advertising

The earliest known IGA was the 1978 computer game Adventureland, which inserted a self-promotional advertisement for its next game, Pirate Adventure.

Inside Mac Games

In 1996, Deniz left IMG to work for Bungie Software for nearly four years as a producer for titles such as Marathon 2: Durandal for Windows, Abuse, Weekend Warrior, and Marathon Infinity, and a project leader for Myth II: Soulblighter.

James Clavell's Shōgun

In sharp contrast to Douglas Adams' close work with Steve Meretzky on Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game, James Clavell contributed little to the design of the game, although he and Dave Lebling met several times.

Jamstykk

Quest for Fame, a 1995 computer game which uses either a so-called "v-pick" or a "virtual guitar" peripheral to play Aerosmith songs.

Jhoneil Centeno

He was assistant art director: Dreamers Guild in the computer game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (computer game).

Ken Silverman

Ken Silverman (born November 1, 1975) is an American game programmer, best known for writing the Build engine used in Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, and more than a dozen other games in the mid- to late-1990s.

Kingdom O' Magic

It was designed by Fergus McNeill who became famous during the eighties for games such as Bored of the Rings (influenced by, but not adapted from, the Harvard Lampoon book) and The Boggit.

KMines

KMines is a minesweeper game for KDE, originally created in 1996 by Nicolas Hadacek under the GPL.

Line of Delirium

The names of races, planets, and several leaders are borrowed from the computer game Master of Orion, although everything else in the trilogy is original, even the physical descriptions of several races.

Lord British

Lord Cantabrigian British is the name of the fictional ruler of Britannia, kingdom of the fictional world of Sosaria, created by Richard Garriott for his computer game series Ultima.

Michael Bywater

He collaborated with Douglas Adams on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Bureaucracy and the never-completed Milliways: The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe for Infocom, and with Georgina Sinclair on Jinxter for Magnetic Scrolls.

Mirrorsoft

Mirrorsoft was a computer game software publisher in the United Kingdom, founded by Jim Mackonochie and Robert Maxwell in 1982 and owned by Mirror Group Newspapers.

NS-Shaft

NS-Shaft is a shareware computer game that was originally produced in the late 1990s by Nagi-P Software for the Macintosh.

NS-Tower

NS-Tower is a shareware computer game that was originally produced in the late 1990s by Nagi-P Software for the Macintosh, but later ported to Windows.

PSPACE-complete

Examples of games that are PSPACE-complete (when generalized so that they can be played on an n × n board) are the games hex and Reversi and the solitaire games Rush Hour, Mahjong, Atomix, and Sokoban.

Puzzle Panic

Puzzle Panic, also known as Ken Uston's Puzzle Panic, was a computer game created by blackjack strategist Ken Uston, Bob Polin and Ron Karr and published by Epyx in 1984 for the Atari 400/800 and Commodore 64.

QBasic

These were "Nibbles", a variant of the Snake game; "Gorillas", an Artillery game; "MONEY MANAGER", a personal finance manager; and "RemLine", a GW-BASIC code line-number-removing program.

Rag Doll Kung Fu

Rag Doll Kung Fu is a fighting computer game, created predominantly by artist Mark Healey, while working for Lionhead Studios, along with other Lionhead employees, such as David Smith and Alex Evans.

Random encounter

A more commonly used tactic in later RPGs (used in Final Fantasy XII, Radiata Stories, Fallout 1 and 2, Legend of Legaia and all Kingdom Hearts games) is to set a finite number of enemies in a given area.

Role of Honour

Holy is an elite computer programmer once working for The Pentagon; he now owns and manages a software company that develops computer game simulations based on real-life wars and battles.

Software rot

For example, many early computer game designers made assumptions about processing speed of the CPU which the games were designed for.

Somyung Sim

Somyung "Silver" Sim (born September 27, 1984), known by the pseudonym s.s.m~SiLvEr is one of the most successful player of the real-time strategy computer game StarCraft.

Space Rangers 2: Dominators

Space Rangers 2: Dominators (Russian: Космические рейнджеры 2: Доминаторы), released in North America with the subtitle Rise of the Dominators, is a multi-genre science fiction computer game developed by Elemental Games for Windows and first published in 2004 by 1C Company.

Sprite Animation Toolkit

Sprite Animation Toolkit (SAT) is a computer game programming library created by Lysator for the Apple Macintosh platform which was popular during the late 1990s, in particular for shareware games.

The Cycles: International Grand Prix Racing

The Cycles: International Grand Prix Racing is a 1989 computer game developed by Distinctive Software and published by Accolade.

Tulsa Zoo

In 2005, the Tulsa Zoo was named as "America's Favorite Zoo" by Microsoft Game Studios and was granted $25,000 in a contest designed to promote the Zoo Tycoon 2 computer game.

Undefined behavior

In practice, many C implementations recognize, for example, #include guards — but GCC 1.17, upon finding a #pragma directive, would instead attempt to launch commonly distributed Unix games such as NetHack and Rogue, or start Emacs running a simulation of the Towers of Hanoi.

Vincent Marzello

Marzello also lent his voice to the character of Fernando Ramirez in the UFO: Afterlight computer game.

Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat

Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat is a real-time tactics computer game published by Games Workshop (in conjunction with Mindscape) in 1995.

Zarch

In 1998, ten years after Zarch was released, a sequel, V2000 (also known as Virus 2000), was released for the PC and PlayStation.


see also

Adventure Quest

AdventureQuest (computer game), an online single-player RPG developed by Artix Entertainment in 2002

Aftermath Media

Both Landeros and Wheeler had previously worked at Trilobyte, makers of the bestselling CD-ROM computer game The 7th Guest.

Amateur flight simulation

Key computer game technologies such as 3D graphics, online play, and modding were first showcased in combat flight simulators such as Red Baron II and European Air War.

Angel Heart

The film acted as the inspiration for the first entry in the Gabriel Knight computer game series, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers.

Bene Tleilax

The Tleilaxu are one of the five subfactions in the 2001 computer game Emperor: Battle for Dune.

Blackstone Chronicles

In 1998 Mindscape published a multimedia computer game developed by Legend Entertainment.

Bon Voyage

The Sims 2: Bon Voyage, a 2007 expansion pack for the computer game The Sims 2

Colossal Cave

Colossal Cave Adventure, a 1976 computer game based on Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky

Comic Bakery

The music and sound effects for the C64 version were made by Martin Galway, a well-known musician of computer game music.

Dawn of Discovery

Anno 1404, computer game, known as Dawn of Discovery in North America

Eugene Dynarski

Three of the most popular projects that he has been involved with were two Steven Spielberg films: Duel and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Westwood Studios landmark computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert.

Executive suite

Besides the novel, and the subsequent film and television show, and the computer game, all mentioned above, both jazz musicians The L.A. Four and British band The Wiseguys have released albums with the titles Executive Suite.

Fighter Squadron

:For the computer game, see Fighter Squadron: The Screamin' Demons Over Europe

Firetrack

Firetrack is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up computer game programmed by Nick "Orlando" Pelling and released for the BBC Micro and Commodore 64 platforms in 1987 by Electric Dreams Software. It was also ported to the Acorn Electron by Superior Software in 1989 as part of the Play It Again Sam 7 compilation.

Five by five

In the Blizzard computer game StarCraft, the Terran dropship unit quotes "In the pipe, five by five" when confirming a move order.

FV432

One FV432 was modified on commission from THQ to look like a Rhino tank from Games Workshop's tabletop game Warhammer 40,000, as part of a marketing campaign for the computer game Dawn of War II.

George Alec Effinger

The three published novels were When Gravity Fails (1987), A Fire in the Sun (1989), and The Exile Kiss (1991); Effinger also contributed to the computer game Circuit's Edge (1990), set between the first two books.

Ghoti

In the computer game Minecraft, a "splash text" (random sentence) is displayed on the title screen.

Jeff Trinkle

Variants of this method are key components of several physics engines for computer game development, for example, NVIDIA PhysX and Bullet.

JSW

Jet Set Willy, a 1984 computer game originating on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum written by Matthew Smith

Jubjub bird

In the computer game WarBreeds, a reptilian version of the Jubjub is the flying unit of the Tanu race.

Livingstone Tower

Games developer Chris Sawyer, an alumnus of the University of Strathclyde, based one of the skyscraper sprites appearing in the computer game Transport Tycoon on Livingstone Tower.

Maksim Tsyhalka

Maksim and, to a lesser extent, his brother Yuri both achieved a small amount of fame and worldwide renown after they were featured in the Championship Manager / Football Manager computer game series by Sports Interactive, especially in CM 01/02.

Maria Whittaker

Whittaker was also the star of Maria Whittaker's X-Mas Strip Poker, a computer game released in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and 128.

Mauro Sandreani

His voice is used for commentary in the Italian version of the computer game Pro Evolution Soccer 2008.

Mayumi Iizuka

In the middle of August 2010, she attended Shenyang Anime and Computer Game Exhibition 2010 (2010中国沈阳第二届动漫电玩博览会), Shenyang, China, and showed her performance there.

Middle-earth Enterprises

Middle-earth in video games, a history of video and computer game adaptions, both licensed and unlicensed.

Mystery By Moonlight

In November 2002 Her Interactive released the 7th computer game in the Nancy Drew Series, Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, based loosely on this book and a short story in the Nancy Drew Ghost Stories.

Naomi Novik

She participated in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide, until she discovered that she preferred writing to game design.

Odakyu 2000 series

The Odakyu 2000 series is also featured as a player-driveable train in the computer game Microsoft Train Simulator.

Operation Exodus

Ground Control II: Operation Exodus, a 2004 computer game developed by Massive Entertainment

Renegade III: The Final Chapter

Renegade 3: The Final Chapter is a scrolling beat'em up computer game released on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX and ZX Spectrum systems in the late 1980s by Ocean Software under their "Imagine" label.

Rome: Total Realism VII

Rome: Total Realism VII or (RTR VII) is a complete modification for the computer game Rome: Total War intended to correct and enhance the historical accuracy of the original game.

Section sign

The section symbol is used in the 2012 computer game XCOM: Enemy Unknown as a nationality-neutral currency symbol.

Star Command

Star Command: Revolution, a 1996 DOS computer game published by GT Interactive.

Strawberry Shortcake

In 2003, webcomic Penny Arcade posted an "advertisement" for an imaginary computer game, American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake—a parody of the actual computer game American McGee's Alice, a twisted and violent take on Lewis Carroll's works.

Suryavarman II

Suryavarman II is a civilization leader in the 2007 PC computer game Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword.

The Lost Empire

Lost Empire, a 2007 turn-based strategy computer game by Pollux Gamelabs

The Ship Who Sang

In the popular 1992 science fiction computer game, Star Control II, the player can embark on an optional side quest to Beta Corvi, and meet a sentient alien race who inhabit a gas giant there.

The Titans

Age of Mythology: The Titans – an expansion pack for the Age of Mythology computer game

Three Mile Pilot

3MP's early releases often referenced the cult sci-fi computer game series Star Control, as evidenced by album and song titles such as Star Control Out, "Chenjesu," "The Ur-Quan Destroyer," "Androsyn Guardian," and "Ilwrath," simply because they liked the names.

TorqueScript

TorqueScript is a scripting language used by the computer game, Blockland.

Trespasser

:This article is about the common law concept of a trespasser; for the computer game, see Jurassic Park: Trespasser

Varda

In the computer game NetHack, the player can ward off most monsters by engraving the name "Elbereth" into the ground.

Wan Chai District

The computer game Deus Ex features Wan Chai Market as the main district in the Hong Kong chapters of the game.

Weird Worlds

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, a science fiction computer game unrelated to the aforementioned comics.

Yoot

Yoot Saito (b. 1962), Japanese computer game program designer

Zeta Persei

Druuge, a fictional race from the 1992 computer game Star Control II whose home world is a planet orbiting Zeta Persei.