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UFO: Enemy Unknown

Index UFO: Enemy Unknown

UFO: Enemy Unknown (marketed as X-COM: UFO Defense in North America) is a science fiction strategy video game developed by Mythos Games and MicroProse. [1]

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Alien (creature in Alien franchise)

The "Alien" (colloquial: "Xenomorph XX121"; binomial: Internecivus raptus Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report) is a fictional endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species that is the eponymous antagonist of the ''Alien'' film series.

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Alien abduction

The terms alien abduction or abduction phenomenon describe "subjectively real memories of being taken secretly against one's will by apparently nonhuman entities and subjected to complex physical and psychological procedures".

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Alien invasion

The alien invasion or space invasion is a usual part of science fiction stories and film, in which extraterrestrials invade the Earth either to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it under an intense state, harvest people for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.

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Allister Brimble

Allister Mark Brimble (born 1970 in Westminster, London) is a British video game music composer.

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Altar Games

ALTAR Games, previously known as ALTAR Interactive, was a Czech video game developer founded in 1997 in Brno.

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Amiga

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

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Amiga Action

Amiga Action was a monthly magazine about Amiga video games.

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Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture

Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) is the third-generation Amiga graphic chipset, first used in the Amiga 4000 in 1992.

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Amiga CD32

The Amiga CD32, styled "CD32" and code-named "Spellbound", was the first 32-bit home video game console released in western Europe, Australia, Canada and Brazil.

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Amiga Enhanced Chip Set

The Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) is the second generation of the Amiga computer's chipset, offering minor improvements over the original chipset (OCS) design.

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Amiga Format

Amiga Format was a British computer magazine for Amiga computers, published by Future plc.

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Amiga Power

Amiga Power (AP) was a monthly magazine about Amiga video games.

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Amiga World

Amiga World was a magazine dedicated to the Amiga computer platform.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Area 51

The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, within the Nevada Test and Training Range.

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Artificial intelligence in video games

In video games, artificial intelligence is used to generate responsive, adaptive or intelligent behaviors primarily in non-player characters (NPCs), similar to human-like intelligence.

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Atari ST

The Atari ST is a line of home computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the Atari 8-bit family.

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Bill Stealey

John Wilbur "Wild Bill" Stealey Sr. (born 1947) is a retired United States Air Force officer who founded game developer and publisher MicroProse with Sid Meier.

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Biological computing

Bio computers use systems of biologically derived molecules—such as DNA and proteins—to perform computational calculations involving storing, retrieving, and processing data.

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Board wargame

A board wargame is a wargame with a set playing surface or board, as opposed to being played on a computer or in a more free-form playing area as in miniatures games.

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Bob Lazar

Robert Scott Lazar (born January 26, 1959) claims to have worked on reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology at a site called S-4, near the Area 51 test facility, and that the UFOs use gravity wave propulsion.

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CBS Interactive

CBS Interactive Inc. (formerly CBS Digital Media Group) is an American media company and is a division of the CBS Corporation.

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CD-ROM

A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed optical compact disc which contains data.

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Chip (magazine)

Chip is a computer and communications magazine published by CHIP Holding (formerly Vogel Burda Holding GmbH) in several countries of Europe and Asia.

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Chipping Sodbury

Chipping Sodbury is a market town in the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire, south-west England, founded in the 12th century by William Crassus (or le Gros).

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Civilization (video game)

Sid Meier's Civilization is the first in a series of turn-based "4X"-type strategy video game created by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley for MicroProse in 1991.

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Civilization II

Sid Meier's Civilization II is a turn-based strategy video game in the ''Civilization'' series, developed and published by MicroProse.

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CNET

CNET (stylized as c|net) is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.

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Codo Technologies

Codo Technologies was a video game developer founded by Julian Gollop and others, including brother Nick Gollop, continuing the line of sophisticated strategy war games started at their previous company Mythos Games.

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Commodore User

Commodore User, known to the readers as the abbreviated CU, was one of the oldest British Commodore magazines.

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Communion (book)

Communion: A True Story is a book by American ufologist and horror author Whitley Strieber that was first published in February 1987.

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Computer Gaming World

Computer Gaming World (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006.

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Construction and management simulation

Construction and management simulation (CMS) is a type of simulation game in which players build, expand or manage fictional communities or projects with limited resources.

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Copyright infringement

Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission, infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works.

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Cross-platform

In computing, cross-platform software (also multi-platform software or platform-independent software) is computer software that is implemented on multiple computing platforms.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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Culture Brain

is a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded on October 5, 1980.

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Cydonia (region of Mars)

Cydonia is a region on the planet Mars that has attracted both scientific and popular interest.

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Diane Duane

Diane Duane (born May 18, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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DOS

DOS is a family of disk operating systems.

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Edge (magazine)

Edge is a multi-format video game magazine published by Future plc in the United Kingdom, which publishes 13 issues of the magazine per year.

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Electronic Gaming Monthly

Electronic Gaming Monthly (often abbreviated to EGM) is a monthly American video game magazine.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a website focused on video game journalism, reviews, and other features.

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Experience point

An experience point (often abbreviated to exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's progression through the game.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").

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Fallout (video game)

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is an open world turn-based role-playing video game developed and published by Interplay Productions in 1997.

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Firaxis Games

Firaxis Games, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Sparks, Maryland.

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Floppy disk

A floppy disk, also called a floppy, diskette, or just disk, is a type of disk storage composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic enclosure lined with fabric that removes dust particles.

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Future US

Future US, Inc. (formerly known as Imagine Media and The Future Network USA) is an American media corporation specializing in targeted magazines and websites in the video games, music, and technology markets.

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Game demo

A game demo is a freely distributed piece of an upcoming or recently released video game.

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Game engine recreation

Game engine recreation is a type of video game engine remastering process whereby a new game engine is written from scratch as a clone of the original with the ability to load the original game's data files such as music, textures, scripts, shaders, levels, and more.

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GamePro

GamePro was an American multiplatform video game magazine media company that published online and print content covering the video game industry, video game hardware and video game software.

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GameRankings

GameRankings is a website that collects review scores from both offline and online sources to give an average rating.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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GameSpy

GameSpy was a provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

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Glossary of video game terms

This is a glossary of video game terms which lists the general terms as commonly used in Wikipedia articles related to video games and its industry.

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Gold Box

Gold Box is a series of role-playing video games produced by SSI from 1988 to 1992.

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Graphical user interface

The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.

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GURPS

The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk is an electromechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material.

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Hasbro Interactive

Hasbro Interactive was an American video game production and publishing subsidiary of Hasbro, the large game and toy company.

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IBM Master Inventor

An IBM Master Inventor is an individual selected by IBM.

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Icon (computing)

In computing, an icon is a pictogram or ideogram displayed on a computer screen in order to help the user navigate a computer system or mobile device.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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Isometric graphics in video games and pixel art

In video games and pixel art, "isometric" refers to some form of axonometric projection (commonly, the form of dimetric projection with a 2:1 pixel ratio) where the viewpoint is angled to reveal other facets of the game environment than are typically visible from a purely top-down perspective or side view, thereby producing a three-dimensional effect.

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John Broomhall

John Broomhall is an English composer, audio producer/director, journalist and consultant, working mainly in the video game industry.

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Julian Gollop

Julian Gollop is a British video game designer and producer specializing in strategy games, who has founded and led Mythos Games, Codo Technologies and Snapshot Games.

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Ken Levine (game developer)

Kenneth "Ken" Levine (born September 1, 1966) is an American game developer.

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Krisalis Software

Krisalis Software Limited was a video game developer and publisher founded by Tony Kavanagh, Peter Harrap, and Shaun Hollingworth in 1987 under the name Teque Software Development Limited as a subsidiary label (beginning in 1988) until the official company name was changed to Krisalis Software Ltd. in 1991.

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Language localisation

Language localisation (or localization, see spelling-differences) is the process of adapting a product that has been previously translated into multiple languages to a specific country or region (from Latin locus (place) and the English term locale, "a place where something happens or is set").

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Laser Squad

Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics video game, originally released for the ZX Spectrum and later for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga and Atari ST and PC computers between 1988 and 1992.

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Laser Squad Nemesis

Laser Squad Nemesis (LSN) is a 2002 multiplayer turn-based tactics video game developed by Codo Technologies for the PC.

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Line of sight (gaming)

Line of sight, sometimes written line-of-sight or abbreviated to LoS, is the visibility (that is, who can see what) on the playing field in wargames and some role-playing games (RPGs).

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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List of Game of the Year awards

Game of the Year (abbreviated GotY) is a title awarded by various gaming publications to a deserving game.

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List of halls and walks of fame

A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or animals, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their fame in their field.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.

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Master of Orion

Master of Orion (MoO or MOO) is a turn-based, 4X science fiction computer strategy game released in 1993 by MicroProse on the MS-DOS and Mac OS operating systems.

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Memory card

A memory card, flash card or memory cartridge is an electronic flash memory data storage device used for storing digital information.

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Men in black

In popular culture and UFO conspiracy theories, men in black (MIB) are supposed men dressed in black suits who claim to be quasi-government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen.

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MicroProse

MicroProse Software Inc. was an American video game publisher and developer founded by "Wild" Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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MIDI

MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related music and audio devices.

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MobyGames

MobyGames is a commercial website that catalogs video games both past and present.

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Mod (video gaming)

A mod (short for "modification") is an alteration that changes some aspects or one aspect of a video game, such as how it looks or behaves.

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Morale

Morale, also known as esprit de corps, is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal, particularly in the face of opposition or hardship.

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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Mythos Games

Mythos Games was a British video game developer company founded by Julian Gollop in 1988 as Target Games and best known for its 1994 strategy game UFO: Enemy Unknown.

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Next Generation (magazine)

Next Generation (also known as NextGen) was a video game magazine that was published by Imagine Media (now Future Network USA).

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Open-source model

The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.

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Original Chip Set

The Original Chip Set (OCS) is a chipset used in the earliest Commodore Amiga computers and defined the Amiga's graphics and sound capabilities.

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Parapsychology

Parapsychology is the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena which include telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims.

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Patch (computing)

A patch is a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data designed to update, fix, or improve it.

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Pathfinding

Pathfinding or pathing is the plotting, by a computer application, of the shortest route between two points.

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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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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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Pelit

Pelit ("Games") is a Finnish video games magazine published in Helsinki, Finland.

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Phobos (moon)

Phobos (systematic designation) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos.

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Phoenix Point

Phoenix Point is an upcoming strategy video game with turn-based tactical combat that is being developed by Snapshot Games for release in June 2019.

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PlayStation (console)

The PlayStation (officially abbreviated to PS, and commonly known as the PS1 or its codename, PSX) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PlayStation Mouse

The PlayStation Mouse (US/UK: SCPH-1090, JP: SCPH-1030) is an input device for the PlayStation console that allows the player to use a mouse as a method of control in compatible games.

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Populous (video game)

Populous is a video game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts, released originally for the Amiga in 1989, and is regarded by many as the first god game.

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Prima Games

Prima Games is the largest publishing company of video game strategy guides in the United States.

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Psionics

Psionics is the study of paranormal phenomena in relation to the application of electronics.

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Rebelstar (series)

The Rebelstar games are a series of turn-based tactics video games designed by Julian Gollop.

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Rebelstar: Tactical Command

Rebelstar: Tactical Command is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Codo Technologies and published by Namco for the Game Boy Advance in 2005.

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Reverse engineering

Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the process by which a man-made object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, architecture, or to extract knowledge from the object; similar to scientific research, the only difference being that scientific research is about a natural phenomenon.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Rock, Paper, Shotgun (also known as RPS) is a UK-based blog operated by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Ltd and authored by Alec Meer, Jim Rossignol, Adam Smith, John Walker, and formerly also Kieron Gillen and Quintin Smith.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game and abbreviated to RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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Saved game

A saved game (also sometimes called a game save, savegame, savefile, save point, or simply save) is a piece of digitally stored information about the progress of a player in a video game.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Sid Meier

Sidney K. Meier (born February 24, 1954) is a Canadian-American programmer, designer, and producer of several strategy video games and simulation video games, including the Civilization series.

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Single-player video game

A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.

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Sleeper hit

In the entertainment industry, a sleeper hit is a title (such as a book, film, song or game) that becomes successful, gradually, often with little promotion.

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Sniper! (board game)

Sniper! was a board wargame originally released in 1973.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Spectrum HoloByte

Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher.

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Spiritual successor

A spiritual successor, sometimes called a spiritual sequel, is a successor to a work of fiction which does not build upon the storyline established by a previous work as do most traditional prequels or sequels, yet features many of the same elements, themes, and styles as its source material, thereby resulting in it being related or similar "in spirit" to its predecessor.

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Square Enix Europe

Square Enix Limited (formerly Domark Limited and Eidos Interactive Limited), doing business as Square Enix Europe, is a British video game publisher, acting as the European subsidiary of Square Enix.

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Steam (software)

Steam is a digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation, which offers digital rights management (DRM), multiplayer gaming, video streaming and social networking services.

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Strategic Simulations

Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a video game developer and publisher with over 100 titles to its credit since its founding in 1979.

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Strategy game

A strategy game or strategic game is a game (e.g. video or board game) in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome.

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Strategy video game

Strategy video game is a video game that focuses on skillful thinking and planning to achieve victory.

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Tabletop role-playing game

A tabletop role-playing game (or pen-and-paper role-playing game) is a form of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech.

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The Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge

The Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge is an unreleased video game for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 2 by Mythos Games.

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The Escapist (magazine)

The Escapist (typeset as the escapist) is an online magazine covering mostly video games as well as movies, comics, TV, and more.

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The One (magazine)

The One was a video game magazine in the United Kingdom which covered 16-bit home gaming during the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was first published by EMAP in October 1988 and initially covered computer games aimed at the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and IBM PC markets. Like many similar magazines, it contained sections of news, game reviews, previews, tips, help guides, columnist writings, readers' letters, and cover-mounted disks of game demos. The magazine was sometimes criticised for including "filler" content such as articles on Arnold Schwarzenegger with the justification that an upcoming film had a computer game tie-in. Readers also initially had trouble buying the magazine due to the name; The One lead to confusion among newsagents over exactly which magazine they meant.

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The X-Files

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.

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Tim Cain

Tim Cain is an American video game developer best known as the producer, lead programmer and one of the main designers of the 1997 computer game Fallout.

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Traveller (role-playing game)

Traveller is a science fiction role-playing game, first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop.

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Turn-based tactics

Turn-based tactics (TBT), or tactical turn-based (TTB), is a computer and video game genre of strategy video games that through stop-action simulates the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics in generally small-scale confrontations as opposed to more strategic considerations of turn-based strategy (TBS) games.

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UFO (TV series)

UFO is a 1970 British science fiction television series about an alien invasion of Earth.

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UFO: Afterlight

UFO: Afterlight is a 2007 strategy computer game and the third in Altar's UFO series.

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UFO: Aftermath

UFO: Aftermath is a 2003 turn-based strategy game created by ALTAR Interactive.

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UFO: Aftershock

UFO: Aftershock is a computer real-time tactical strategy game created by Altar and released in 2005.

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UFO: Alien Invasion

UFO: Alien Invasion is a strategy video game in which the player fights aliens that are trying to take control of the Earth.

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UFO: Extraterrestrials

UFO: Extraterrestrials is a Microsoft Windows game aimed to be a spiritual sequel to the highly acclaimed UFO: Enemy Unknown (retitled X-COM: UFO Defense in North America).

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Unidentified flying object

An unidentified flying object or "UFO" is an object observed in the sky that is not readily identified.

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Unmanned ground vehicle

An unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is a vehicle that operates while in contact with the ground and without an onboard human presence.

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Unofficial patch

An unofficial patch is a non-commercial patch for a piece of software, created by a user community instead of the original developer.

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Video game design

Video game design is the process of designing the content and rules of a video game in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline, and characters in the production stage.

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Video game developer

A video game developer is a software developer that specializes in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games.

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Video game exploit

In video games, an exploit is the use of a bug or glitches, game system, rates, hit boxes, speed or level design etc.

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Video game publisher

A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer.

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Video game remake

A video game remake is a video game closely adapted from an earlier title, usually for the purpose of modernizing a game for newer hardware and contemporary audiences and is coded from scratch.

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Video Graphics Array

Video Graphics Array (VGA) is the display hardware first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, following CGA and EGA introduced in earlier IBM personal computers.

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Vladimir Vasilyev (writer)

Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilyev (Влади́мир Никола́евич Васи́льев, Володи́мир Микола́йович Васи́льєв) (born August 8, 1967) is a Russian science fiction writer and musician.

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Wargaming

A wargame (also war game) is a strategy game that deals with military operations of various types, real or fictional.

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Whitley Strieber

Louis Whitley Strieber (born June 13, 1945) is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his alleged experiences with non-human entities.

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Windows Vista

Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn) is an operating system by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs and media center PCs.

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Windows XP

Windows XP (codenamed Whistler) is a personal computer operating system that was produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.

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Wirtualna Polska

Wirtualna Polska (Virtual Poland; abbreviation: WP) is the sixth-largest Polish web portal.

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X-COM

X-COM (sometimes stylized as X-Com) is a science fiction video game franchise featuring an elite international organization tasked with countering alien invasions of Earth.

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X-COM: Apocalypse

X-COM: Apocalypse is the third game in the X-COM video game series.

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X-COM: Genesis

X-COM: Genesis was a Windows strategy video game in development in the X-COM series.

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X-COM: Terror from the Deep

X-COM: Terror from the Deep is a strategy video game developed and published by MicroProse for the PC in 1995 and for the PlayStation in 1996.

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Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based tactical video game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games.

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Xenonauts

Xenonauts is a turn-based science fiction video game developed and published as the maiden title of London-based independent game studio Goldhawk Interactive.

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16-bit

16-bit microcomputers are computers in which 16-bit microprocessors were the norm.

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1UP.com

1UP.com was an American entertainment website that focused on video games.

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2K Games

2K Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Novato, California.

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4X

4X is a genre of strategy-based video and board games in which players control an empire and "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate".

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8-bit

8-bit is also a generation of microcomputers in which 8-bit microprocessors were the norm.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Enemy_Unknown

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