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 | | Videogame type Videogame type refers to what kind of video game a program is. The hierarchy of videogames is: Video game... | | | Solitaire-type puzzle Whereas the word 'solitaire game' in context with a game originally simply meant that a game is de... | | | List of species in folklore and mythology by type This is a list of creatures from role-playing games are not included. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/type.html
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| | Games Studies 0102: The myth of the ergodic videogame. By James Newman |
| | In recollection of their play, players talk not of playing or controlling but of "being". | | | In her discussion of the Oedipalised narrative of videogames, Kinder (1993) identifies each of the four player-selectable characters in Super Mario Bros.2 with a target audience of players, thereby justifying and explaining the existence of each discrete appearance as a means to foster connectivity with each player-group. | | | The pleasures of videogames are frequently enjoyed by those that commonsense might encourage us to consider as non-players – "onlookers" that exert no direct control via the game controls. |
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http://www.gamestudies.org/0102/newman
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| | Computer and video games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Player input is taken through various types of controls, and output is usually given through a screen and sound devices, as well as through an increasing trend toward haptic feedback. | | | However, in common usage "computer game" refers to games played on a personal computer, while "video game" (or "videogame") refers to games played on a video game console. | | | Video game consoles usually utilize an input device called a controller (sometimes called a game pad), which contains a number of buttons, a D-pad and/or one or two analog sticks. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videogame_type
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| | Game Studies - Play Along - An Approach to Videogame Music |
| | This type of music functions to draw the player into the fictional world of the game by making the environment more believable. | | | Specifically instances of musical sound in videogames generally follow one of two trajectories: to expand the concept of a game's fictional world or to draw the player forward through the sequence of gameplay. | | | article attest, videogame studies is beginning to emerge from its murky status as an "academic ghetto." Videogames provide rich opportunity for interdisciplinary study, but at least one aspect of videogames remains to a large extent unrecognized for its impact on the game player. |
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http://www.gamestudies.org/0401/whalen
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| | Study Suggests : More Game Less Brain - MegaGames pc |
| | Beta wave activity in people in the videogame group, who spent between two and seven hours each day playing games, was constantly near zero even when they weren't playing, showing that they hardly used the prefrontal regions of their brains. | | | The beta waves in the brains of those in the normal category, who rarely played video games, were always stronger than the alpha waves their brains emitted, and little change was shown when they started playing a game. | | | During childhood, playing outside with friends, not videogames, is the best option. |
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http://www.megagames.com/news/html/pc/studysuggestsmoregamelessbrain.shtml
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| | GamesFirst! Video Game Theory: The Videogame to Movie Craze: A trend that has to end? |
| | Videogames have taken a radical, adult-oriented turn since the inception of games like id's Wolfenstein. | | | Translating a game across media has to do with transposing what is important from the game into the film and still retaining the fidelity of the filmic medium and not the videogame medium. | | | The narrator in videogames - which I am going to term the Program - acts in much the same way as it does in film, with a few exceptions. |
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http://www.gamesfirst.com/v4/index.php?m=l&i=417
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| | Sailor Moon - Japanese Customs |
| | Type O Blood people are said to set the mood for a group and to take on the role of creating harmony among its members. | | | B Types tend to excel in things rather than just be average. | | | O Types are generally "loved by all." But, they also, surprisingly, have a stubborn and strong-willed side, as well, and tend to secretly have their own opinions on things. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/5976/blood.htm
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| | Slashdot Video Games Found To Decrease Brain Activity |
| | Generally, the good games are the ones that give you these types of insight (Something like fantasy games, while we don't live in a world of dragons, we do live in a world of villains and problems). | | | Similarly, any type of strategy game forces a player to balance macromanagement with micromanagement, and make decisions about where to focus available resources and how to prioritize problems. | | | I type to my opponents witty remarks like "that was bs!" all the time, and receive similarly witty replies - I've made some great virtual friends through gaming. |
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http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/08/2029221.shtml?tid=127
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| | ELiTeD - R-Type Final Review |
| | And remember, since there are many available game types and difficulty settings, its fun for just about everyone. | | | If you are tired of the game itself, there are several more game-types you can choose from. | | | As you go, you unlock enemy information in the BYDO Lab, available on the main menu, along with many fighter types, War Chronicles (personal records for the war), Notes (your achievements), and the Gallery (bonus images for the game). |
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http://www.elited.net/issues/apr04/rtypefinal.shtml
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| | D:\PROGRAM FILES\SOFTQUAD\HOTMETAL PRO\gifs\chap3000.htm |
| | Taylor, who judged the competition organised by the Society of Arts, was an advocate of the use of Roman type. | | | Moon used alphabetical shapes, modified where necessary to make them more suitable for touch reading, and where this was not possible he introduced a few arbitrary shapes. | | | On the other hand, Moon, who had once had vision before he became blind at the age of 21, understood the problem and was prepared to go further. |
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http://www.braille.org/papers/lorimer/chap3.html
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| | Hardcore Gaming 101 - R-Type |
| | The biggest addition is that there are now three different type of Force pods to choose from. | | | A later level takes place inside some type of giant engine, and even further down the line you face a stage where nearly everly bit of scenery is actually a shape-changing alien. | | | In a completely unrelated note, the R-Type is type of car - the 1954 Bentley R-Type. |
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http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/rtype/rtype.htm
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| | Viewing Review @ Video Game City |
| | The first thing to be noted is that when you take a first look at the game, the gameplay seems fairly repetitive and simple almost like a Gauntlet type game. | | | For those who have been living under a rock for the last five years, it’s the type of game where you rely on an internet connection to place you in a virtual environment populated by thousands of players across the world. | | | Considering the setting and lore behind EverQuest this is pretty forgivable as the actors try hard to convey the many different types of creatures inhabiting Norrath. |
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http://www.vgcity.com/reviews/273.html
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| | R-Type Final for PlayStation 2 Review - PlayStation 2 R-Type Final Review |
| | Each ship isn't completely unique; they all mix and match various force types, charge weapons, power-up weapons, missiles, and bit types. | | | When you start the game, only a handful of ships will be available, but more are unlocked at a rapid clip as you play through the game. | | | If that weren't enough, the game features various galleries and records of your missions, as well as an AI-controlled battle mode where you can define a slew of combat variables for the ships you've unlocked and then watch them do battle against CPU opponents. |
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http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/rtypefinal/review.html
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| | DAM: Rogues Gallery - R-Type Series |
| | Ultimately though, the intervening years have seen a progression in certain types of arcade-style gameplay and nostalgia is often the only motivation left in retrogaming. | | | A common problem is that simplistic and dated visuals can now undermine the desire to progress through a game's levels - the goalposts have been shifted and a whole new set of expectations are in place. |
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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~bevhome/risforrtype.htm
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| | Magic The Gathering: Battlegrounds > Review |
| | There are three types of spells, monsters, enchantments, and sorcery. | | | This isnt the only difference, but it is perhaps the biggest, as it changes the nature of play, and while makes for a completely new style of play, also hinders a bit. | | | Having played the Magic collectable card game, I was looking forward to seeing how it translated into videogame form. |
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http://web1.dignews.com/review.php?story_id=1850
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| | R-Type Final: Playstation 2 (PS2) Reviews - The Armchair Empire |
| | Despite R-Type Final’s high level of difficulty’s ability to bring out the masochist in all of us, this title is a wonderful close to an amazing series. | | | It’s not Shakespeare, but the level of story telling in R-Type Final is certainly better, if only by a notch or two, than what one may find in other space shooters where the only thing players know is that the world/universe is in trouble and it’s time to blow some stuff up. | | | The game is a challenge, but a wonderfully frenetic, visceral one. |
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http://www.armchairempire.com/Reviews/ps2/r-type-final.htm
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| | R-Type Final (Import) - PlayStation 2 Review |
| | Blue will fire a spread type weapon, generally one where the beam will bounce around if the damage wasn't absorbed by something. | | | Then the marketing people are like, "Oh, I guess people just don't like shooters, we should never make one ever again." News Flash, people don't like ANY type of bad game. | | | The resultant attack from the Charge Shot is different depending on the fighter type. |
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http://www.netjak.com/review.php/390
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| | Dr Moon Page |
| | Several of the types are square-bodied, so that four characters can be produced, depending upon which way up the type is used, from one piece of type others, on square or narrower bodies, make two characters; and some only one. | | | Fourteen types are required to make the alphabet, and twelve other types are used for contractions and punctuation marks. | | | From 1923, Moon has been printed direct from type. |
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http://www.deafblind.com/moon.html
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| | National Console Support, Inc. R-Type Final |
| | Irem touts 99 types of ships to use which are unlocked as the player progresses through the levels. | | | R-Type has undergone a number of upgrades and updates through the years and Irem unleashes the last ever R-Type game on PS2. | | | The battle in R-Type Final starts on Earth and eventually takes the player through the solar system to the heart of the Bydo Empire. |
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http://www.ncsxshop.com/cgi-bin/shop/SLPS-25247.html
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| | Target Gamer - News |
| | The game SOCOM 3 is currently on track for a fall release on the PlayStation 2 in North America according to Sony and Zipper, but information about the game's online side has yet to be revealed. | | | Developer Bandai Games announced that Digimon World 4 videogame for the Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox is already at retail stores, close to videogame players hands. | | | Sony is launching its PSP (Play Station Portable) unit in North America next week just months before it releases PSP videogames in Europe due to the huge demand the PSP video game and media player is having in Asia. |
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| | RAY PERRY's Page on 1UP.com |
| | Even more so when they can be easily compared to other games of its type. | | | I think it's TOTALY cool that this girl plays videogames as much (if not more than) I do. | | | They stand around all day waving, saying nice things to ya, posing for pictures, sitting on yer lap, letting fat, sweaty,smelly,game geeks put their arms around them. |
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http://gba.1up.com/do/my1Up?publicUserId=5537724
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| | GameSpy.com - Reviews: Sega Bass Fishing 2 (DC) |
| | I remember a recent jaunt to our local Jillians (an adult drink, eat food and play really expensive $1.00 videogame type a joint) and the game that most of the drunk youth were standing around was Get Bass Fishing. | | | The change in scenery is more than just aesthetic - your location directly impacts the type and quantity of fish you are able to catch at that particular area. | | | When one thinks of the joy of videogaming, many images come to mind -- the first time you saw Mario 64, knowing that you truly were in the next generation of gaming... |
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http://www.gamespy.com/reviews/november01/bassfishingdc
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| | Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Reader Review - GameFAQs |
| | I never got the “this is too much of a TV/movie rather than a videogame”- type of feeling. | | | The developers know what type of show it is and never really takes everything so seriously. | | | So why not, it was the last copy and the rest of the used games there were crappy 2 year-old Sports games. |
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox/review/R51561.html
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| | Need Team Members for Animal Crossing/Harvest Moon Type Game - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums |
| | Animal Crosssing/Harvest moon type game set up to play multiplayer online. | | | Posted - 10/18/2003 11:49:31 AM I don't understand why it's uncalled for or silly, Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing are both Best Selling games and the market in it is booming because you see more and more female players playing these types of games. | | | Game Designer - Need anyone who has passion about this type of game and would like to help in brainstorming and core design. |
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http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=186019
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| | killing_moon_faq.txt |
| | In MS- DOS mode type: MWAVE START [enter] If you get no error messages, the game can be set up for Sound Blaster Pro with verification turned off. | | | Type: D:\ATS\ATS.EXE [enter] (Note: D: represents the letter of your CD-ROM drive.) Type: EDIT DOSSTART.BAT [enter] Press enter and then press the up arrow so your cursor is on a blank line at the top of the dosstart.bat file. | | | Turning Off Verification for Sound Blaster-Compatible Sound Cards If your sound card is Sound Blaster-compatible and you are having problem getting the sound to work, then try the following: Go to the MOON directory on your hard drive and type 'edit sound.inf' and press enter. |
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http://microsoft.com/games/texmurphy/underakillingmoon/killing_moon_faq.txt
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| | R-Type Final - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | So it is both in the game's world and in the real world: R-Type has made its final bow. | | | The fact that the development team of the story and the Irem staff on hand to make the R-Type games have the same organization name, "R-TYPE", strongly symbolizes that after this, no more R-Types will be made. | | | In R-Type III, this act was further expanded upon as a mandatory final option: The Ragnarok was escaping the alternate universe of the many-armed final Bydo, which was still in pursuit of the craft even in normal space. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-Type_Final
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| | R-Type Final for PlayStation 2 Review - PlayStation 2 R-Type Final Review |
| | Fresh Games, the "indie label" arm of Eidos, is bringing R-Type Final to the US market for a mere 30 bones, which is more than a fair price for the amount of white-knuckle gameplay and visual splendor packed into the game. | | | R-Type Final's mechanics don't differ in a significant way from those of its predecessor, R-Type Delta, or even from those of any of the previous games going all the way back to the original. | | | When you start the game, only a handful of ships will be available, but more are unlocked at a rapid clip as you play through the game. |
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http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/rtypefinal/review.html
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| | PS2 - R-TYPE FINAL review on NTSC-uk |
| | Final challenges you to a handsome range of five difficulty levels – ‘Baby’, ‘Kids’, ‘Human’, ‘Bydo’ and ‘R-Typer’. | | | Many players will accept this new direction, and find the sheer spectacle recurrent in Final to be more than compensatory; others may and inevitably will beg to differ. | | | Luckily, this is part of a well-articulated premise; the sound effects are in stark contrast, representing some of the most effective and substantial thumps and rumblings to come out of any action game the PS2 has seen. |
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http://www.ntsc-uk.com/MainContent/PS2/R-TypeFinal/R-TypeFinal.htm
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| | diary |
| | One is a mummy type creature, and the other a giant rat. | | | I've already established from the magazine editor that there are copyright problems with using sequences from a commercially released game, so it looks like I'll have to create the videogame world from scratch in 3D Studio. | | | I decide that the best way to go about this is to build quite primitive shapes to act as the body-parts for my creatures. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/2840/spam/diary.htm
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