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  • software_name = Mission Asteroid| software_image = [[File:Mission Asteroid cover.jpg|300px]]|
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  • The first game was ''[[Mystery House]]'', which was released on the [[Apple II]]. The video games were developed by [[Sierra]] under the [[On-Line Systems]] and [[Sierra On-Line]] company names.
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  • ...ss the 8th Dimension (video game)|The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension]]'' in [[1984]] with ''[[Phillip Case]]''. [[Category: People born in the United States of America]]
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  • ...hat were collected in [[2012]] by [[Jennifer McMurray]] and later added to the WEC Museum. ...e Ankh Pack]]'' (''[[Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris]]'' and ''[[Ankh 3: Battle of the Gods]]'') for [[Windows]] (digital via [[Steam]]) - developer: [[Deck 13]],
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  • The '''SuperGrafx''' was a [[video game console]] with a [[central processing u ...der-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Aldynes: The Mission Code for Rage Crisis]]''
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  • ...n as the Psychonauts. He always wanted to join the team but discovers that the Psychonauts are not all that he imagined. The ruler of Gruklovia, Gzar Theodore Malik, manipulated a woman named Lucrecia
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  • ...was a handheld [[video game console]] by [[SNK]]. It was the successor to the [[Neo Geo Pocket]] that, unlike its predecessor, had a full color graphic d The Neo Geo Pocket Color was released in Japan on March 16, 1999, in North Amer
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  • ScottFree is an interpreter for [[interactive fiction]] games in the [[Scott Adams]] format. ...Adventures'' series]] by [[Digital Fantasia]], and other games created in the format used by titles.
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  • ...ihon Kikaku (新日本企画, New Japan Project)''' by [[Eikichi Kawasaki]] in 1973. The company was reorganized as a stock company in 1978, and was titled '''Shin ...name was informally shortened to '''SNK Corporation''' in 1981. SNK became the official corporate name in April 1986. [[Aruze]] purchased SNK Corporation
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  • .../>United States: October 1989<br />France: 1989<br />'''Mac OS (''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'')'''<br />North America: 1996<br />'''Linux, macOS, Windows'''< '''''Maniac Mansion''''' was the first game to use the [[SCUMM]] scripting utility (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion).
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  • THEVIC20 is a full-size system with a replica of the original Commodore VIC-20 keyboard. It also came with one joystick designed THEVIC20 can be switched to load into Commodore 64 mode, VIC-20 mode, or the Commodore Carousel menu system.
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  • Vavasour had previously founded the Vancouver branch of [[Digital Eclipse]]. ...Miniature Golf]]'', ''[[Missile Command]]'', ''[[Night Driver]]'', ''[[Off the Wall]]'', ''[[Outlaw]]'', ''[[Pong]]'', ''[[Quadrun]]'', ''[[Race]]'', ''[[
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  • The '''Z80''' was a series of microprocessors released by [[Zilog]] in March [[ It was one of the first commercially available single-chip 16-bit microprocessors.
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  • '''VIC-20''', known in Japan as the '''VIC-1001''', and in Germany as the '''VC-20''', was a [[computer]] by [[Commodore Business Machines]]. ...German expletives "fick" or "wichsen". It was marketed in that region with the backronym VolksComputer (people's computer).
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  • ...d to resemble the [[Commodore 64]] computer, although the keyboard keys on the case are non-functional. ...could be attached to load the games, or a virtual keyboard can be used via the joystick.
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  • ==Video games by Tose by the WEC Museum== ...order-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Tose developed the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] port.
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  • The '''Commodore 64''', abbreviated as the '''C64''' or '''CBM C64''', was a [[computer]] by [[Commodore International ...Commodore Business Machines. The '64' in the name comes from the fact that the Commodore 64 has 64 kilobytes of [[random access memory|RAM]].
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  • ...''' ('''''龍が如く2''''', “'''''Like a Dragon 2'''''”), was the second game in the [[Like a Dragon|''Like a Dragon'' series]]. It was released on [[PlayStatio ...[[Kazuma Kiryu]], is pulled back into the yakuza life after the murder of the fifth chairman.
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  • ...known as interactive fiction. Their first game, ''[[Adventureland]]'', was the first adventure game that was sold commercially. ...e and also made some games of their own using the same interpreter used in the Adventure International games.
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  • Other than the ''[[Mega Man X]]'' games, X is playable in some games in the ''[[Capcom VS.]]'' and ''[[Project X Zone]]'' series. X also appears, but is not playable, in some games in the [[Mega Man Zero|''Mega Man Zero'' series]].
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  • ...]s that were popular in the United Kingdom to be sold in that market under the trade name Adventure International UK, with their first releases occurring ...ting its own games in [[1984]], however, it still released its games under the Adventure International UK label until Adventure International went bankrup
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  • ...'''NEO•GEO''' or '''NEOGEO''', is a [[video game]] platform by [[SNK]] for the [[arcade]] and home [[video game console]] markets. The arcade system is known as the '''Neo Geo MVS''' (Multi Video System).
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  • '''Neo Geo Mini''' is a series of miniature [[video game]] systems based on the [[SNK]] [[Neo Geo MVS]]. They were conceived after the success of the [[NES Classic Edition]] and [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System Classic E
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  • [[X (character)|X]] is a robot created by the roboticist Dr. Light. ...ted by Dr. Light that is capable of free will and rational thinking beyond the programming code.
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  • added_to_museum = See the [[:Category:Star Trek|Star Trek category]]| It was created by [[Gene Roddenberry]] with the premiere of the eponymous series on September 8, 1966.
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  • ...-16 Mini''', known as the '''PC Engine Core Grafx Mini''' in Europe and as the '''PC Engine Mini''' in Japan, was a miniature video game system by [[Konam ...ined forty-eight, running on an [[emulation|emulator]] designed by [[M2]]. The worldwide versions included untranslated Japanese games.
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  • Hamster Corporation was spun off as a public company from the game division of Toshiba-EMI Limited on November 11, 1999. As a publisher of classic games, Hamster Corporation has sought the catalog of classic [[video game]] developers.
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  • ...cond handheld video game platform released by Nintendo. It was preceded by the [[Game & Watch]] series of handheld consoles. It was succeeded by the [[Game Boy Color]], which was released in 1998.
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  • ...it was renamed '''Enix Corporation'''. Enix is a portmanteau of [[ENIAC]], the first digital computer, and "phoenix", a mythical bird that rises from its '''Square Enix''' was founded on April 1, 2003 as a result of the merger of Square and Enix.
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  • '''PlayStation Portable (PSP)''' was the first portable video game console by [[Sony]]. ...ble, the '''PSP-1000''', was released in Japan in 2004, and to the rest of the world in 2005.
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  • ...e 32.93 million units of the [[Nintendo 64]] and the 9.26 million units of the [[Sega]] [[Sega Saturn|Saturn]] combined. ...e a better deal with Philips. This led to both deals falling through, and the add-on was never released.
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  • [[Jeff Vavasour]] founded the Vancouver branch of Digital Eclipse in 1997. ...o form '''Backbone Entertainment'''. ImaginEngine retained its name, while the Digital Eclipse studios were renamed '''Backbone Emeryville''' and '''Backb
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  • ...39, by the [[DC Comics]] team consisting of the writer [[Bill Finger]] and the artist [[Bob Kane]]. ...rs in the [[Injustice series|''Injustice'' series]] and in some entries in the [[Mortal Kombat series|''Mortal Kombat'' series]].
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  • The '''Retro-Bit Generations (レトロビット・ジェネレーション)''' The '''Retro-Bit Generations (レトロビット・ジェネレーション)'''
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  • ...e team of [[Ken Williams]] and [[Roberta Williams]]. They initially formed the company to develop and distribute graphic [[adventure games]] that were des ...he company expanded to a point where, by the early 1990s, it became one of the largest publishers of computer games.
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  • '''PlayStation 3''' was the third home video game console by [[Sony]]. ...lid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]
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  • Like the G-Mode Archives releases, '''G-Mode Archives+''' ('''ジー・モードア� | style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[The Strongest in History: Julia Miyamoto]]''
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  • The games that are powered by the [[Neo Geo MVS]] hardware are released under '''ACA NeoGeo''' branding. Thes ...le="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Alpha Mission]]''
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  • ...arch & Development 1 (任天堂開発第一部, Nintendō Kaihatsu Daiichi Bu, R&D1)''' was the original video game development group within [[Nintendo]]. It was original ...toys, utilizing a [[light gun]] designed by [[Masayuki Uemura]], in which the light gun fired at physical targets. Then, in [[1971]], Nintendo president
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  • ...Ninth generation of video game consoles|ninth generation console]] that is the ninth, and current, home and portable [[video game console]] released by [[ ...me and handheld consoles, as the system can dock for television output and the [[JoyCon]]s are removable.
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  • ...hat were collected in [[2019]] by [[Jennifer McMurray]] and later added to the WEC Museum. ...nic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'', ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball]]'', ''[[Space Harrier II]]'', ''[[Street Fighter II|Stre
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  • ...ators for certain features are included, such as the [[Munt]] emulator for the [[Roland]] [[MT-32]] [[MIDI]] synthesizer. ...r Ludvig Strigeus that ran the ''[[Simon the Sorcerer]]'' games running on the [[AGOS]] engine. AGOS stands for Adventure Graphic Operating System.
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  • ...hat were collected in [[2022]] by [[Jennifer McMurray]] and later added to the WEC Museum. ...e]]'' (''[[Les Manley in: Lost in LA]]'' and ''[[Les Manley in: Search for the King]]'') for [[Linux]], [[macOS]], and [[Windows]] (digital via [[GOG.com]
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  • known_for = 45th President of the United States| ...hird-generation real estate developer who was the forty-fifth president of the United States from [[2017]] to [[2021]].
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  • ...hat were collected in [[2021]] by [[Jennifer McMurray]] and later added to the WEC Museum. ***''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum|Batman: Arkham Asylum - Game of the Year Edition]]'' for [[Windows]] (digital via [[GOG.com]]) - developer: [[R
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  • ...hat were collected in [[2020]] by [[Jennifer McMurray]] and later added to the WEC Museum. ***''[[The Deadly Tower of Monsters]]'' for [[Windows]] (digital via [[GOG.com]]) deve
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  • ...toku: Ishin!''''', "'''''Like a Dragon Restoration!'''''"), is an entry in the [[Like a Dragon|''Like a Dragon'' series]] that is a prequel to ''[[Yakuza ...ragon: Ishin!''''' worldwide, was released in 2023. This is the first time the game has been released outside of Japan.
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  • The '''Nintendo Entertainment System''' was the second home video game console by [[Nintendo]]. It was known as the '''Family Computer''', or '''Famicom''', in Japan.
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  • ...hat were collected in [[2018]] by [[Jennifer McMurray]] and later added to the WEC Museum. ***''[[Carmen Sandiego: The Secret of the Stolen Drums]]'' for [[GameCube]] (physical) - developer: [[Behaviour Inter
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