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Under the Ice is a submarine warfare video game for the Atari ST and IBM PC compatibles running GEM. It simulates one of three battles between NATO and Soviet submarines in the area around Iceland. A key element of the game was an accurate simulation of the performance of sonar, the various classes of submarines, and their weapons.
Given the game's strong focus on multiplayer, Chair welcomed the opportunity to participate in this promotion as the immediate influx of hundreds of new players greatly enhanced the competitive game play experience. A single downloadable content pack was released for the game. Titled "Path of the Elect", the pack featured a new five-mission ...
A polar ice cap or polar cap is a high-latitude region of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite that is covered in ice. [ 1 ] There are no requirements with respect to size or composition for a body of ice to be termed a polar ice cap, nor any geological requirement for it to be over land, but only that it must be a body of solid phase ...
The player can vote on three issues during a Landsraad session. Dune: Spice Wars is a 4X real-time strategy game set on the desert planet of Arrakis.Certain tiles have resources like spice and minerals, and unique tiles such as the polar ice caps can produce large amounts of water for the player.
The first objective is universal to global warming games. The issues surrounding global warming commonly included are CO 2 emissions and the emission of other greenhouse gases, the melting of the polar ice caps, sea-level rise, natural disasters and massive changes to lifestyles caused by global warming. Games that do not go beyond the ...
High-latitude regions covered in ice, though strictly not an ice cap (since they exceed the maximum area specified in the definition above), are called polar ice caps; the usage of this designation is widespread in the mass media [8] and arguably recognized by experts. [9] Vatnajökull is an example of an ice cap in Iceland. [10]
1995 photo of Mars showing approximate size of the polar caps. The planet Mars has two permanent polar ice caps of water ice and some dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide, CO 2).Above kilometer-thick layers of water ice permafrost, slabs of dry ice are deposited during a pole's winter, [1] [2] lying in continuous darkness, causing 25–30% of the atmosphere being deposited annually at either of the ...
Frostbite is a 1983 action game designed by Steve Cartwright for the Atari 2600, and published by Activision in 1983. The game has a player control Frostbite Bailey, who must hop across several ice floes to collect ice while avoiding falling in the water and avoiding the hazardous natural elements such polar bears and snow geese.