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Jousting is a medieval and renaissance martial game or hastilude between two combatants either on horse or on foot. [1] The joust became an iconic characteristic of the knight in Romantic medievalism .
Joust. Joust has been listed in multiple sources as one of the more memorable games of its time, part of the Golden Age. [4] In 2008, Guinness World Records listed it at number sixty-nine arcade game in technical, creative, and cultural impact. [5]
Joust is an action game developed by Williams Electronics and released in arcades in 1982. ... The developers created the game using 96K of ROM chip storage, ...
In Europe, a jousting lance was a variation of the knight's lance which was modified from its original war design. In jousting, the lance tips would usually be blunt, often spread out like a cup or furniture foot, to provide a wider impact surface designed to unseat the opposing rider without spearing him through.
Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament is an American dinner theater featuring staged medieval-style games, sword-fighting, and jousting.Medieval Times Entertainment, the holding company, is headquartered in Irving, Texas.
The Freydal tournament book is an early 16th century illuminated manuscript held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna containing 255 miniature paintings depicting scenes from a series of imaginary late medieval jousting tournaments. It was created by the court painters of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I with the intention that the ...
Thus, preparation (for war) is practice, practice is competition, and competition is sport; consequently, (before the establishment of sports history), the medieval hallmarks of upper-class sports (i.e. jousting, mock combat, and blood sports) were generally agreed upon as military training.
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