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Arrow keys

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Arrow keys or cursor movement keys are buttons on a computer keyboard that are either programmed or designated to move the cursor in a specified direction. [1]

92 relations: ADM-3A, Alt key, Amiga, Apple II, Apple II Plus, Apple IIe, Applesoft BASIC, Arcade controller, Arrow (symbol), Arrow keys, Avatar (1979 video game), AZERTY, BBC Micro, Bill Joy, Blackthorne, Browser game, Business simulation game, Capcom, Castle Wolfenstein, City-building game, Commodore International, Computer keyboard, Computer mouse, Computer terminal, Control key, Crossfire (1981 video game), Cursor (user interface), D-pad, Dance Dance Revolution, Dark Castle, Dennis Fong, Devil May Cry 4, Digital Equipment Corporation, Doom (1993 video game), Driving simulator, Duke Nukem 3D, Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, Dynamic HTML, Empire (PLATO), Emulator, Esc key, Fighting game, First-person shooter, Free look, Gauntlet (1985 video game), Gmail, Google Labs, Half-Life (video game), Handedness, Inventory, ..., JavaScript, Keyboard shortcut, Lear Siegler, Linley's Dungeon Crawl, Little finger, LK201, Lode Runner, Macintosh, Marathon (video game), Modifier key, Moria (PLATO), Mouse keys, NetHack, Numeric keypad, PC game, Phantasie, PLATO (computer system), Player character, Pointer (user interface), Quake (video game), QuakeWorld, QWERTY, QWERTZ, QWOP, Rogue (video game), Scroll lock, Shift key, StepMania, Steve Jobs, Strafing (gaming), Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, Touch typing, Tribes 2, Unix, Vi, Video game genre, Wizardry, WordStar, Workbench (AmigaOS), ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81. Expand index (42 more) »

ADM-3A

The ADM-3A was one of the first video display terminals.

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Alt key

The Alt key (pronounced or) on a computer keyboard is used to change (alternate) the function of other pressed keys.

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Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

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Apple II

The Apple II (stylized as Apple.

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Apple II Plus

The Apple II Plus (stylized as Apple.

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Apple IIe

The Apple IIe (styled as Apple //e) is the third model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer.

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Applesoft BASIC

Applesoft BASIC is a dialect of Microsoft BASIC, developed by Marc McDonald and Ric Weiland, supplied with the Apple II series of computers.

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Arcade controller

An arcade controller is a collective set of input devices designed primarily for use in an arcade cabinet.

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Arrow (symbol)

An arrow is a graphical symbol such as ← or →, used to point or indicate direction, being in its simplest form a line segment with a triangle affixed to one end, and in more complex forms a representation of an actual arrow (e.g. ➵ U+27B5).

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Arrow keys

Arrow keys or cursor movement keys are buttons on a computer keyboard that are either programmed or designated to move the cursor in a specified direction.

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Avatar (1979 video game)

Avatar is an early graphics-based multi-user highly interactive role-playing computer game, created on the University of Illinois' Control Data Corporation PLATO system in the late 1970s.

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AZERTY

AZERTY is a specific layout for the characters of the Latin alphabet on typewriter keys and computer keyboards.

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BBC Micro

The British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by the Acorn Computer company for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Bill Joy

William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer scientist.

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Blackthorne

Blackthorne (released as Blackhawk in some European countries) is a cinematic platformer video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment.

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Browser game

A browser game is a computer game that is played over the Internet using a web browser.

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Business simulation game

Business simulation games, also known as economic simulation games, or tycoon games, are games that focus on the management of economic processes, usually in the form of a business.

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Capcom

is a Japanese video game developer and publisher known for creating numerous multi-million selling game franchises, including Street Fighter, Mega Man, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Ace Attorney, Monster Hunter, and Dead Rising, as well as games based on the Disney animated properties.

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Castle Wolfenstein

Castle Wolfenstein is a stealth-based action-adventure shooter video game developed by Muse Software for the Apple II.

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City-building game

A city-building game, or town-building game, is a genre of simulation video game where players act as the overall planner and leader of a city or town, looking down on it from above, and being responsible for its growth and management strategy.

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Commodore International

Commodore International (or Commodore International Limited) was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer founded by Jack Tramiel.

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Computer keyboard

In computing, a computer keyboard is a typewriter-style device which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches.

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Computer mouse

A computer mouse is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface.

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Computer terminal

A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying or printing data from, a computer or a computing system.

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Control key

In computing, a Control key is a modifier key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, performs a special operation (for example, C); similar to the Shift key, the Control key rarely performs any function when pressed by itself.

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Crossfire (1981 video game)

Crossfire is an Apple II video game created by Jay Sullivan and published by Sierra On-Line in.

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Cursor (user interface)

In computer user interfaces, a cursor is an indicator used to show the current position for user interaction on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input from a text input or pointing device.

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D-pad

A D-pad (short for directional pad or digital pad; also known as a control pad) is a flat, usually thumb-operated four-way directional control with one button on each point, found on nearly all modern video game console gamepads, game controllers, on the remote control units of some television and DVD players, and smart phones.

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Dance Dance Revolution

, abbreviated DDR and also known as Dancing Stage in earlier games in Europe, Central Asia, Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Oceania, and also some other games in Japan, is a music video game series produced by Konami.

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Dark Castle

Dark Castle is a 1986 computer game for the Macintosh published by Silicon Beach Software, later ported to various platforms, where it was published by Three-Sixty Pacific.

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Dennis Fong

Dennis "Thresh" Fong (born March 11, 1977) is an American businessman and retired professional player of the first-person shooter video games Quake and Doom.

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Devil May Cry 4

Devil May Cry 4 is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed and published by Capcom in 2008 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows platforms.

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Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as DEC and using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Doom (1993 video game)

Doom (typeset as DOOM in official documents and stylized as DooM in other media) is a 1993 first-person shooter (FPS) video game by id Software.

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Driving simulator

Driving simulators are used for entertainment as well as in training of driver's education courses taught in educational institutions and private businesses.

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Duke Nukem 3D

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms and published by GT Interactive Software.

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Dvorak Simplified Keyboard

The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard is a keyboard layout patented during 1936 by Dr.

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Dynamic HTML

Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated websites by using a combination of a static markup language (such as HTML), a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), a presentation definition language (such as CSS), and the Document Object Model (DOM).

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Empire (PLATO)

Empire is the name of a computer game written for the PLATO system in 1973.

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Emulator

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest).

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Esc key

On computer keyboards, the Esc key (named Escape key in the international standard series ISO/IEC 9995) is a key used to generate the escape character (which can be represented as ASCII code 27 in decimal, Unicode U+001B, or.

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Fighting game

A fighting game is a video game genre based around interpersonal combat between a limited amount of characters, in which they fight until they defeat their opponents or the timer expires.

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First-person shooter

First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre centered around gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective; that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist.

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Free look

Free look (also known as mouselook) describes the ability to move a mouse, joystick, analogue stick, or D-pad to rotate the player character's view in video games.

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Gauntlet (1985 video game)

Gauntlet is a fantasy-themed hack and slash arcade game by Atari Games.

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Gmail

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service developed by Google.

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Google Labs

Google Labs was a page created by Google to demonstrate and test new projects.

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Half-Life (video game)

Half-Life (stylized as HλLF-LIFE) is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve and published by Sierra Studios for Microsoft Windows in 1998.

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Handedness

In human biology, handedness is a better, faster, or more precise performance or individual preference for use of a hand, known as the dominant hand; the less capable or less preferred hand is called the non-dominant hand.

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Inventory

Inventory (American English) or stock (British English) is the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate goal of resale (or repair).

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JavaScript

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a high-level, interpreted programming language.

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Keyboard shortcut

In computing, a keyboard shortcut is a series of one or several keys, such as Ctrl+F to search a character string.

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Lear Siegler

Lear Siegler Incorporated (LSI) is a diverse American corporation established in 1962.

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Linley's Dungeon Crawl

Linley's Dungeon Crawl (or just Dungeon Crawl or Crawl) is a roguelike computer game originally programmed by Linley Henzell in 1995, and first released to the general public on October 2, 1997.

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Little finger

The little finger or pinky finger, also known as the fourth digit or just pinky, is the most ulnar and smallest finger of the human hand, opposite the thumb, and next to the ring finger.

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LK201

The LK201 was a detachable computer keyboard introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts in 1982.

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Lode Runner

Lode Runner is a platform video game first published by Brøderbund in 1983.

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Macintosh

The Macintosh (pronounced as; branded as Mac since 1998) is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc. since January 1984.

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Marathon (video game)

Marathon is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by Bungie, and released in December 1994 for the Apple Macintosh.

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Modifier key

In computing, a modifier key is a special key (or combination) on a computer keyboard that temporarily modifies the normal action of another key when pressed together.

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Moria (PLATO)

Moria is a dungeon crawl style role-playing video game first developed for the PLATO system around 1975, with copyright dates listed as 1978 and 1984.

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Mouse keys

Mouse keys is a feature of some graphical user interfaces that uses the keyboard (especially numeric keypad) as a pointing device (usually replacing a mouse).

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NetHack

NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game originally released in 1987 with ASCII graphics.

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Numeric keypad

A numeric keypad, number pad, numpad, or ten key, is the palm-sized, 17-key section of a standard computer keyboard, usually on the far right.

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PC game

PC games, also known as computer games or personal computer games, are video games played on a personal computer rather than a dedicated video game console or arcade machine.

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Phantasie

Phantasie is a fantasy role-playing video game series designed by Winston Douglas Wood and published by Strategic Simulations in 1985.

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PLATO (computer system)

PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) was the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system.

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Player character

A player character (also known as PC and playable character) is a fictional character in a role-playing game or video game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game.

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Pointer (user interface)

In computing, a pointer or mouse cursor (as part of a personal computer WIMP style of interaction) is a symbol or graphical image on the computer monitor or other display device that echoes movements of the pointing device, commonly a mouse, touchpad, or stylus pen.

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive in 1996.

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QuakeWorld

QuakeWorld (abbreviated QW) is an update to id Software's seminal multiplayer deathmatch game, Quake, that enhances the game's multiplayer features (namely UDP support) to allow people with dial-up modems to achieve greatly improved responsiveness when playing on Internet game servers.

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QWERTY

QWERTY is a keyboard design for Latin-script alphabets.

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QWERTZ

The QWERTZ or QWERTZU keyboard is a typewriter and keyboard layout widely used in Central Europe.

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QWOP

QWOP is a 2008 ragdoll-based browser video game created by Bennett Foddy, formerly the bassist of Cut Copy.

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Rogue (video game)

Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman and later contributions by Ken Arnold.

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Scroll lock

Scroll lock (⤓ or ⇳) is a lock key (typically with an associated status light) on most IBM-compatible computer keyboards.

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Shift key

The shift key is a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters.

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StepMania

StepMania is a cross-platform rhythm video game and engine.

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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and business magnate.

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Strafing (gaming)

In video games, strafing is the technique of moving the player's character from side to side, rather than forward or backward.

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Texas Instruments TI-99/4A

The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A is a home computer, released June 1981 in the United States at a price of $525 ($ adjusted for inflation).

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Touch typing

Touch typing (also called touch type or touch keyboarding) is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys.

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Tribes 2

Tribes 2 is a first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra Studios in 2001 as a sequel to Starsiege: Tribes.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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Vi

vi is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system.

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Video game genre

A video game genre is a classification assigned to a video game based on its gameplay interaction rather than visual or narrative differences.

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Wizardry

Wizardry is a series of role-playing video games, developed by Sir-Tech, which were highly influential in the evolution of modern role-playing video games.

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WordStar

WordStar is a word processor application that had a dominant market share during the early- to mid-1980s.

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Workbench (AmigaOS)

Workbench is the graphical file manager of AmigaOS developed by Commodore International for their Amiga line of computers.

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ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research.

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ZX80

The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer brought to market in 1980 by Science of Cambridge Ltd.

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ZX81

The ZX81 is a home computer that was produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Dundee, Scotland by Timex Corporation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_keys

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