Knowledge About Arcade Games

British gaming magazine The One reviewed Strike Force in 1991, heavily comparing it to Midway's earlier arcade title Defender, stating "why not produce an updated Defender? You might as well say why not produce an updated Mona Lisa? Midway's tried - and it looks like painting-by-numbers. If you ever loved the original, don't torture yourself by playing this."

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Such was the secrecy behind the operation that Hamid like the other fedayeen told his family that he was returning to Germany for different reasons. In Hamid's case he told his Mother that he was going back to Germany to study, telling her he would be there for two and a half months or so.

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Frenzy, a 1997 novel by Percival Everett

Frenzy, a 1988 novel by Rex Miller

Frenzy, a 2010 novel by Robert Liparulo

Frenzy, a 2014 novel by John Lutz

The Frenzy, a 2010 novel by Francesca Lia Block

Joanna Cargill, a Marvel Comics supervillain also known as Frenzy

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Due to the strong presence of elements referring to the Malatesta's history, and to Sigismondo Pandolfo himself (in particular, his lover Isotta), the church was considered by some contemporaries to be an exaltation of Paganism. Pope Pius II, Sigismondo's deadliest enemy, declared it as "full of pagan gods and profane things".

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Five friends go into a mysterious forest for a fun night of flashlight games. Their night in the woods turns into a deadly experience when they disturb a demonic presence that has a long history of supposedly driving young people to suicide

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Yyu no Quiz de Go! Go! () is a Japanese quiz video game released by Taito Corporation for the arcades in 1990, and later ported to the Super Famicom platform.

The game was featured in episode 72 (10th Season) of GameCenter CX. Yyu no Quiz de Go! Go! (Director's Cut) is featured in the DVD-Box Vol. 6, released on December 18, 2009.

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In July 2014 it was announced that Lionsgate had acquired distribution rights to the film and planned a 2015 limited release and video on demand run for the film, and that Lionsgate was partnering with The Film Arcade on the theatrical release. The film was released in the United States in a limited release and through video on demand beginning on March 27, 2015.

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Mega Apocalypse is a multidirectional shooter written by Simon Nicol for the Commodore 64 and ported to the BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum. It is the sequel to Crazy Comets. Both games are clones of Gottlieb's 1983 arcade game Mad Planets. The music is by Rob Hubbard

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Midnight Star: Renegade is a science fiction mobile shooting game developed by Industrial Toys, the second game in the Midnight Star series. It was soft released in March 2016 for iOS devices. Set 120 years after the events of Midnight Star, the game takes players to new areas. It was released on iOS on 11 August 2016

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Domino Master is a casual game based on dominos for Windows and Xbox 360 developed by TikGames and published by Microsoft Game Studios. Domino Master was originally released for Windows 98 in 2004 by TikGames and has been released on September 17, 2008 on Arcade.

The game is available from TikGames for Windows as Domino Master Gold.

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Cabinet Retrofitter: Jph Wacheski, Iteration Games

Project Coordinator: Jim Munroe, No Media Kings

Cabinet Graphic Design: Nadine Lessio

Gamemaker Liaison: Jim McGinley, Bigpants Games

Deployment Officer: Peter Marshall

Housing Assistance: Rose Bianchini and Jason Van Horne

Financial Support: Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council

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Balloon Bomber is a fixed shooter arcade game released by Taito in 1980. The player controls a ship at the bottom of the screen which shoots at balloon-carrying bombs overhead. If a falling bomb hits the bottom of the screen, it makes a crater which cannot be moved past, limiting mobility.

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Spirit of 76 was made to celebrate the 200th birthday of the United States. The backbox of the machine has art from America's heroes. The red white and blue theme dominates the game. Minutemen, covered wagons and rockets are displayed on the playfield. Stars and stripes, representing the flag of the United States, are on the side of the table.

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Afif Ahmed Hamid (d. 5 September 1972) was one of eight Black September terrorists that invaded the Israeli quarters at the Munich Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games that took hostage nine of the Israeli Olympic delegation after killing Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano in the initial takeover

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Like several of the younger fedayeen involved in the Munich operation, Hamid had grown up in the Chatila refugee camp in Lebanon as a youngster.

He joined Fatah in 1968 and like his fellow fedayeen had a familiarity with Germany, living and studying there for over a year, before returning to Lebanon in 1971.

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NYR: New York Race, also known as New York Race, is a science fiction racing game based on the film The Fifth Element directed by Luc Besson released in 2001. Many of the characters from the film are playable, including characters that did not have a significant role in the film, and lacked names

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An All-points bulletin is a law enforcement information dissemination tool.

All Points Bulletin may also refer to:

All Points Bulletin (album), an album by Dispatch

APB (1987 video game), arcade game by Atari Games

APB: All Points Bulletin, a previously discontinued 2010 massive multiplayer online game for Microsoft Windows

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Strike Force is a horizontally scrolling shooter released in arcades by Midway in 1991. In the same way that 1990's Smash TV is a modernized reimagining of Robotron: 2084 with two-player simultaneous play, Strike Force is a modernized reimagining of Defender with two-player simultaneous play. Strike Force was not widely distributed and was not ported to any home systems.

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Treasure Island is a 1981 arcade game from Data East. It was released for the DECO Cassette System as well as a standalone cabinet. Treasure Island is a vertically scrolling game with isometric graphics. The goal is to climb a sinking island while gathering treasure.

A port for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A was published in 1984.

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Mobile Suit Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE

Mobile Fighter G Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

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Victory Road may refer to:

TNA Victory Road, a professional wrestling event

Victory Road (video game), a 1986 arcade game

Victory Road, a street in Salt Lake City, Utah that is part of Utah State Route 186

Victory Road (Pokmon), a location in the Pokmon video games

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The Tempio Malatestiano (Italian Malatesta Temple) is the unfinished cathedral church of Rimini, Italy. Officially named for St. Francis, it takes the popular name from Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, who commissioned its reconstruction by the famous Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti around 1450.

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Dragon Skulle is an action-adventure game for the Commodore 64 developed and published by Ultimate Play the Game in late 1985. It is a sequel to The Staff of Karnath, Entombed and Blackwyche, and the final title to feature the aristocrat adventurer, Sir Arthur Pendragon. The game was created by brothers Dave and Bob Thomas.

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It's another peaceful day in Edo, when out of nowhere a spaceship resembling the head of a cat appears high in the sky. Inside, a weird-dressed, muscle-bound character known as Spaceman Dynamite starts planning something mischievous that will surely bring trouble to the good people below, and in consequence to Goemon and his friends

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Lunar Lander is a game in which the player must land a ship on the moon, in the style of other Lunar Lander games.

This game was part of a series of arcade game clones for the TRS-80 and Atari 8-bit computers, which, though featuring differences from the Atari version of Lunar Lander, was advertised as "an arcade game simulation".

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Plutos is a vertically scrolling shooter computer game developed by Tynesoft and originally published by Micro Value in 1987. The game was released for the Amiga and Atari ST systems, and was a heavily inspired by the 1984 arcade game Star Force. In 1991, the game was re-issued on Prism Leisure's "16-Bit Pocket Power" imprint.

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Syougi no Tatsujina is a board arcade video game developed by ADK and originally published by SNK on September 28, 1995, before being ported to the Neo Geo CD the same year. It was ported in a scaled-down version to the Neo Geo Pocket and later given improved graphics on the Neo Geo Pocket Color. It was only released in Japan

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5th Gear is a computer game for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64, released on the Rack-It budget label. The original Commodore 64 version was programmed by Jeroen Leijten, with music by Theo and Renier Hongens. It was largely inspired by previous arcade games Steer and Go and Spy Hunter.

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The game's popularity spawned the creation of a book in 2009 entitled Bugaboo, un hito en la Historia del software espaol by Francisco Portalo Calero (i.e., Paco Portalo, one of the original authors of the game) and published by Universidad de Extremadura, which is available online.

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Acornsoft's Starship Command is a multidirectional shooter released in 1983 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. It was available on cassette as well as 5.25" disc for the BBC and ROM cartridge for the Acorn Electron Plus 1 expansion module. The game was written by Peter Irvin who, along with Jeremy Smith, went on to create the arcade adventure Exile

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Cruisin' (Village People album), 1978

Cruisin' (Junko Onishi album), 1993

"Cruisin'" (Smokey Robinson song), 1979, covered by D'Angelo and by Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow

"Cruisin'" (Michael Nesmith song), 1979

"Cruisin'" (Earth, Wind & Fire song), 1996

"Cruisin'", a 1957 song by Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps

"Cruisin'", a 2003 song by Sioen

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WICO-FM, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to serve Snow Hill, Maryland, United States

WJKI (AM), a radio station (1320 AM) licensed to serve Salisbury, Maryland, which held the call sign WICO from 1956 to 2018

WNKZ-FM, a radio station (92.5 FM) licensed to serve Pocomoke City, Maryland, which held the call sign WICO-FM from 2009 to 2017

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Slither (1973 film), a comedy directed by Howard Zieff

Slither (2006 film), a comedy horror film directed by James Gunn

"Slither" (Sliders), an episode of Sliders

"Slither" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Slither (The Secret Circle), the 5th episode of the first season of the CW television series The Secret Circle

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Under Fire (1926 film), an American silent western film

Under Fire (1957 film), a 1957 film starring Rex Reason

Under Fire (1983 film), a 1983 film starring Nick Nolte

Under Fire (TV series), 2003 documentary TV series, written and presented by Dan Cruickshank

"Under Fire" (Dad's Army), an episode of the British sitcom Dad's Army

"Under Fire" (Casualty), a webisode of the British medical drama Casualty

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PC Arcade is a collection of ten text-mode action games for the IBM PC published by the Arlington, Texas-based Friendlysoft in 1983. The games are ASCII Man, Eagle Lander, Star Fighter TX-16, Shooter, Brick Breaker, Gorilla Gorilla, Robot War, Bug Blaster, Hopper, and PC Derby. Most of the games are clones of arcade games (e.

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, ASCII Man is Pac-Man).

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Stepping Selection is a rhythm game for the PlayStation 2. It was released exclusively for Japanese markets on March 4, 2000. The game is based on Jaleco's Stepping Stage series of arcade games, featuring shortened versions of popular songs accompanied by videos loosely related to them.

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A jet fighter is a jet engine-powered military aircraft designed for air-to-air combat.

Jet fighter(s) or Jetfighter(s) may also refer to:

Jet Fighter (arcade game) (1975), 2 player arcade game by Atari

Jet Fighters (video game), MMO application for Apple iPhone OS

Jetfighter (series) (1988), 3D combat flight simulator computer games from Velocity Development

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Bit.Trip Core, marketed as BIT.TRIP CORE, is an arcade-style rhythm game developed by Gaijin Games and published by Aksys Games for the Wii's WiiWare download service. It is the second game in the Bit.Trip series, directly succeeding Bit.Trip Beat and preceding Bit.Trip Void, Bit.Trip Runner, Bit.Trip Fate and Bit.Trip Flux