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Strafing in video games is a maneuver which involves moving a controlled character or entity sideways relative to the direction it is facing. This may be done for a variety of reasons, depending on the type of game; for example, in a first-person shooter, strafing would allow one to continue tracking and firing at an opponent while moving in another direction.
Zapodidae, the jumping mice, is a family of mouse-like rodents in North America and China. Although mouse-like in general appearance, these rodents are distinguished by their elongated hind limbs, and, typically, by the presence of four pairs of cheek-teeth in each jaw.
The jump from single-screen or flip-screen graphics to scrolling graphics during the golden age of arcade games was a pivotal leap in game design, comparable to the move to 3D graphics during the fifth generation. [1] Hardware support of smooth scrolling backgrounds is built into many arcade video games, some game
Jump Bug [a] is a 1981 scrolling shooter platform game developed by Alpha Denshi under contract for Hoei Corporation. [4] It was distributed in arcades by Sega in Japan and Europe, and by Rock-Ola in North America. [1] The player controls a bouncing Volkswagen-esque car in a forced scrolling world. The car can eliminate enemies by shooting them ...
The woodland jumping mouse (Napaeozapus insignis) is a species of jumping mouse found in North America. It can jump up to 3 m (9.8 ft) using its extremely strong feet and long tail. It can jump up to 3 m (9.8 ft) using its extremely strong feet and long tail.
The jumping mouse is an excellent digger; it usually burrows in a depression, and begins to dig horizontally with its front limbs, once inside it also uses its powerful hind feet to throw out the loose soil. [5] The meadow jumping mouse is primarily nocturnal, but has been captured in the late evening of a cloudy moist day. This could be ...
The scroll wheel is placed horizontally between the mouse buttons and commonly uses vertical scrolling, wherein rolling the wheel from the bottom side to the top is known as scrolling "upward" or "forward", while the reverse, i.e. rolling the wheel from the top side to the bottom, is known as scrolling "downward" or "backward".
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