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Role-playing Game ... The original form, sometimes called the tabletop RPG, is conducted through discussion, whereas in live action role-playing games (LARP) players physically perform their characters' actions... Several varieties of RPG also exist in electronic media, such as multi-player text-based MUDs and their graphics-based successors, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs)... Role-playing games also include single-player offline role-playing video games in which players control a character or team who undertake quests, and may include capabilities that advance using statistical mechanics...

North American Video Game Crash Of 1983 ... There were several reasons for the crash, but the main cause was supersaturation of the market with hundreds of mostly low-quality games which resulted in the loss of consumer confidence... Plethora of games and consoles At the time of the U. S crash, there were numerous consoles on the market, including the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Bally Astrocade, the ColecoVision, the Coleco Gemini (a 2600 clone), the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the Fairchild Channel F System II, the Magnavox Odyssey2, the Mattel Intellivision (and its just-released update with several peripherals, the Intellivision II), the Sears Tele-Games systems (which included both 2600 and Intellivision clones), the TandyvisioN (an Intellivision clone for Radio Shack), and the Vectrex...

Nintendo 3DS ... In addition, consumers who bought the system at its original price gained access to ten free Nintendo Entertainment System games starting September 1, 2011 and 10 free Game Boy Advance games starting December 16, 2011, from the Nintendo eShop...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

History Of Video Game Consoles (sixth Generation) ... Games were still being produced for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube as of 2007, while Dreamcast games were officially discontinued in 2002... There were still a few games being produced for the Dreamcast in 2007, but they are essentially NAOMI arcade ports released only in Japan, with small print runs...

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...

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...

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...

GP2X ... The GP2X is designed for homebrew developers as well as commercial developers. It is commonly used to run emulators for classic game consoles such as Neo Geo, Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16, MAME and others...

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...

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...

Table Game ... The term has significance in that some jurisdictions permit casinos to have only slots and no table games... Games Cards Asian stud Asia Poker Australian Pontoon Baccarat Blackjack Blackjack switch Caribbean Stud Poker Casino Hold'em Casino war Chinese poker Fan-Tan Faro Four card poker Let It Ride Mambo stud Pai gow poker Poker Pyramid Poker Red Dog Spanish 21 Super Fun 21 Teen Patti Texas Hold'em Texas Hold'em Bonus Poker Three card poker Two-up Penny-up Ultimate Texas Hold'em Dice / Tiles Chuck-a-luck Craps Pai Gow Sic bo Random numbers Big Six wheel Roulette Chase Beezy ...

WonderSwan ... The original WonderSwan was later replaced by the WonderSwan Color; although some WonderSwan Color games are compatible with the original WonderSwan, many are designed exclusively for the WonderSwan Color and show a message such as "This cartridge is for WonderSwan Color only" when run on the original WonderSwan... As it was a console designed essentially for the Japanese market, most of the games are in Japanese, with only a few featuring English text...

Game Boy Advance ... After the Game Boy Advance's support lessened, the most popular software became mostly games oriented to younger gamers... Games See also: List of Game Boy Advance games The Game Boy Advance became the modern flagship of sprite-based games... With hardware comparable to the Super NES it had proven that sprite-based technology could improve and live side by side with the 3D games of the day's consoles...

Sega Game Gear ... In addition, it could also produce stereo sound (through headphones) as opposed to the SMS's monaural output, though very few games made use of the stereo capabilities... Because of the similarities between the SMS and the Game Gear, it was fairly easy for SMS games to be ported to Game Gear cartridges; the Master Gear Converter, released during the system's lifetime, even allowed original SMS cartridges to be played on the Game Gear directly...