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Role-playing Video Game ... Role-playing video games typically rely on a highly developed story and setting, which is divided into a number of quests... Role-playing video games also typically attempt to offer more complex and dynamic character interaction than what is found in other video game genres... Story and setting The premise of most-role-playing games tasks the player with saving the world, or whichever level of society is threatened...

Video Game ... The input device used to manipulate video games is called a game controller, and varies across platforms... Early personal computer games often needed a keyboard for gameplay, or more commonly, required the user to buy a separate joystick with at least one button...

Watara Supervision ... Reasons commonly cited are the poor quality screen which was prone to blurring and made following the action difficult, a general lack of games and the simplistic nature of those that were released... Yet another problem was that most of the games that were available were developed in Taiwan or Hong Kong, meaning that fans of big-name western and Japanese developers were underwhelmed by the apparent lack of support from these companies... Only a tiny handful of games were developed by third parties, including Sachen and the British developer B. I. T. S...

Redemption Game ... Redemption games can be seen as the modern successor to carnival games, as the same general principles apply... Legacy As revenue from traditional arcade games started to decline in the latter half of the 1990s due to competition from home game consoles and the Internet, arcade operators began to rely on the income from redemption and merchandiser games to remain profitable... These games were often much less expensive to purchase, and had a better return on investment than video games...

Neo Geo Pocket Color ... The Neo Geo Pocket Color was designed to replace SNK's original Neo Geo Pocket monochrome handheld, which debuted in 1998 in Japan. In 2000, following SNK's purchase by Japanese pachinko manufacturer Aruze, the Neo Geo Pocket Color was dropped from both the North American and European markets...

Online Text-based Role-playing Game ... Role-playing games based on popular media (for example, the Harry Potter series) are common, and the players involved tend to overlap with the relevant fandoms... Varieties MUDs Precursor to the now more popular MMORPGs of today are the branch of text-based games known as MUD, MOO, MUCK, MUSH et al., a broad family of server software tracing their origins back to MUD1 and being used to implement a variety of games and other services... Although interest in these games has suffered from the popularity of MMORPGs, a large number of them still operate...

GP32 ... The console has a four-way mini-joystick controller, two main buttons ('A' and 'B'), two shoulder buttons on each side of the SMC slot ('L' and 'R') and two other menu buttons on each side of the screen ('SELECT' and 'START'), made from a softer, translucent rubber. The console also has a USB 1.1 port for connection with a host computer, a serial expansion port, a 3.3 V power adapter input, a headphone connector and a rear compartment which holds two AA sized batteries...

PlayStation Portable ... The PlayStation Portable is the only handheld video game console to use an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its primary storage medium. Other distinguishing features of the console include its large viewing screen, robust multi-media capabilities, and connectivity with the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, other PSPs and the Internet...

Handheld Electronic Game ... Starting in 1980, Nintendo began to release a series of electronic games designed by Yokoi called the Game & Watch games... Taking advantage of the technology used in the credit-card-sized calculators that had appeared on the market, Yokoi designed the series of LCD-based games to include a digital time display in the corner of the screen...

Atari Lynx ... Today, as with many older consoles, there is still a small group of devoted fans, creating and selling games for the system... Features The Atari Lynx has several innovative features including its being the first color handheld, with a backlit display, a switchable right-handed/left-handed (upside down) configuration, and the ability to network with up to 17 other units via its "ComLynx" system (though most games would network eight or fewer players)... The Lynx was also the first gaming console with hardware support for zooming/distortion of sprites, allowing fast pseudo-3D games with unrivaled quality at the time and a capacity for drawing filled polygons with limited CPU intervention...

Nintendo DS ... The Nintendo DS is the successor to the Game Boy Advance series of portable consoles, with the DS and DS Lite models featuring single-player backwards compatibility with Game Boy Advance games...

Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game ... A few games also offer some form of modding in order to allow for even greater flexibility of choice...

Gambling ... In other forms, gambling can be conducted with materials which have a value, but aren't real money; for example, games like Pogs or Magic: The Gathering...

N-Gage ... In 2005, Nokia announced that it would move its N-Gage games capabilities onto a series of smartphones... These devices have been available since early 2007, and a pre-release version of the N-Gage application allowing users to purchase and download games was made available for download from the official N-Gage website on February 4, 2008...

Hartung Game Master ... It was also released in the UK as the Systema 2000 by already well established maker of cheap LCD games Systema... The Game Master utilizes a 40-pin cartridge port like the Supervision but is not compatible with Supervision games... Technical specifications CPU: NEC upd7810 Screen: 64 x 64 Low Resolution LCD Color: monochrome black/white tones Power Switch External Power Supply Jack (DC6V) Contrast Adjustment 4 Way directional pad Headphone jack (unit includes small stereo headphones) Speaker built-in A & B buttons Select button Start button Volume controller Dimensions: 170 x 97 x 33 mm Input: 40-pin cartridge slot Games Bomb Disposer Bubble Boy Car Racing Continental Galaxy Dungeon Adventure Falling Block Go Bang! Hyper Space Invader Kung Fu Move It Pin Ball S-Race Soccer (Fuss-Ball) Space Castle Tank War Tennis Urban Champion ...

Game.com ... While they were able to obtain game licenses like Wheel of Fortune, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mortal Kombat, Duke Nukem, and Resident Evil, none of the games sold in great numbers...

Action Game ... But many action games are unbeatable and have an indefinite number of levels, and the player's only goal is to maximize their score by collecting objects and defeating enemies... Action games can sometimes incorporate other challenges such as races, puzzles, or collecting objects, but they are not central to the genre... Players may also encounter tactical and exploration challenges, but these games first-and-foremost require high reaction speed and good hand–eye coordination...

Sports Betting ... Bookmakers usually hold a 11-10 advantage over their customers—for small wagers it is closer to a 6-5 advantage—so the bookmaker will most likely survive over the long term. Successful bookmakers must be able to withstand a large short term loss...

Role-playing Game Theory ... The Scandinavian RPG scene saw several opposing ideological camps about the nature and function of RPGs emerge, and began having regular conventions on live action role-playing games where RPG theory was featured prominently, called the Knutepunkt... In the 21st century, self-defined "Indie role-playing" communities such as the Forge grew on the internet, studying role-playing and developing the GNS Theory of role-playing games...

Tapwave Zodiac ... The product was designed to be a "high performance mobile entertainment system” centred on games, music, images, and video, aimed at 18 to 34 year old gamers and technology enthusiasts. By running an enhanced version of the Palm Operating System (5.2T), Zodiac also provided access to Palm’s personal information management software and many other applications from the Palm developer community...