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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person shooter survival horror video game franchise developed by Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World.The series is set in an alternate version of the present-day Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, where, according to the series' backstory, a mysterious second Chernobyl disaster took place in 2006.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. takes place in an area called the Zone. The Zone is based on the real-life Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and is also inspired by fictional works: Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's science fiction novella Roadside Picnic (1972) which was loosely adapted into Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker (1979), as well as the film's subsequent novelization by the Strugatsky brothers.
It is the fourth main game released in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series, as well as the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game in 15 years since the release of Call of Pripyat in 2009. Initially announced following the release of Call of Pripyat , S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was planned to release in 2012, before it was ultimately cancelled on the year of its ...
The Polish limited edition, presented in a medkit-like bag with the game's logo contains the game disc, soundtrack, patch with logo of one of the game's factions, stickers with logos, small map of the Zone, T-shirt with game's logo on chest and inscription "Сделано в Чернобыле" ("Made in Chernobyl") on the back.
Gameplay screenshot from the original Sharp X68000 version. Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth is a side-scrolling beat 'em up game reminiscent of Kung-Fu Master and The Ninja Warriors, where players assume the role of a policeman taking control of a SlaveGear mecha suit known as Hound Dog through six stages of varying themes set in Artemis City in an effort to defeat a rogue SlaveGear model called ...
SKIDROW is a well-known cracking group originally formed in 1990, cracking games for the Amiga platform, and having used the motto "Twice the Fun - Double the Trouble!" since then. A piece of cracktro software released by SKIDROW in 1992 with the game 10 Pinball Fantasies contained a complete list of their membership at the time. [73]
Anomaly, a rift in the space-time continuum in the television series Futurama; Anomaly, any shortcut to hyperspace travel in Robert Heinlein's novels of the 1950s, today called wormholes "Anomaly" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2003 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise; The Anomaly, a 2014 film; Anomaly (comics), a villain in DC Comics
John Stalker (14 April 1939 – 15 February 2019) was a British police officer who served as Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police. He headed the Stalker Inquiry that investigated the shooting of suspected members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1982. He also had a television and literary career.