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The Signetics 2636 video processors were first used in the 1978 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System and later in the 1979 Elektor TV Games Computer. The Atari VCS, released in 1977, has a hardware sprite implementation where five graphical objects can be moved independently of the game playfield. The term sprite was not
Masaaki Kukino (of Haunted Castle, Asterix, and Silent Scope) revealed that the game's title is a portmanteau of knight and nightmare, giving it a double meaning. [13] Knightmare was first published for the MSX in Japan on March 29, 1986, and later in Europe of that year by Konami. [14] [15] In Argentina, the game was distributed by Microbyte. [16]
Commercial video games are typically developed as proprietary closed source software products, with the source code treated as a trade secret (unlike open-source video games). [1] When there is no more expected revenue, [citation needed] these games enter the end-of-life as a product with no support or availability for the game's users and ...
Knightmare is a video game released by Activision in 1987 for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and Atari ST.It was written by Mev Dinc, J.P. Dean, E.M. Dean and Nick Cooke, and is based on the Anglia Television show Knightmare.
Nightmare is a popular interactive horror video board game that combines elements of traditional board games with multimedia components. It was released in 1991 by A Couple 'A Cowboys and J. W. Spear & Sons as part of the Atmosfear series .
8-Bit Theater is a sprite comic, meaning the art is mainly taken from pre-existing video game assets, created by Brian Clevinger that ran from 2001 to 2010 and consisting of 1,225 pages. The webcomic was, at times, one of the most popular webcomics, and the most popular sprite comic.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a video game released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990 based on Wes Craven's slasher film of the same name. The game was developed by Rare and published by LJN. It should not be confused with an unrelated game with the same title for the Commodore 64 and IBM PC released in 1989.
Sprite (Eternal), a fictional member of the race of Eternals in the Marvel Universe; Sprite, a 2009 Japanese manga series; Sprite, alias of the Marvel Comics character Kitty Pryde; Sprite, alias of the Marvel Comics character Jia Jing; Sprite comic, a webcomic that consists primarily of computer sprites from video games