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GGPO (Good Game Peace Out) is middleware designed to help create a near-lagless online experience for various emulated arcade games and fighting games. The program was created by Tony Cannon, co-founder of fighting game community site Shoryuken and the popular Evolution Championship Series.
In the United States, a group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. [1] Many GPOs are funded by administrative fees which are paid by the vendors that GPOs oversee.
The generalized second-price auction (GSP) is a non-truthful auction mechanism for multiple items. Each bidder places a bid. The highest bidder gets the first slot, the second-highest, the second slot and so on, but the highest bidder pays the price bid by the second-highest bidder, the second-highest pays the price bid by the third-highest, and so on.
Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for more than fifty years. Paris-made fashion dolls from the Théâtre de la Mode (1946) on display at the Maryhill Museum of Art. Many fashion doll lines have been inspired by Barbie, or launched as alternatives to Barbie. Tammy was created by the Ideal Toy Company in 1962. [21]
Following their release in mid-2020, the doll franchise appeared on multiple hot-toy lists including Toys "R" Us Canada [9] and The Toy Insider, [10] while The NPD Group reported in August 2020 that, Rainbow High was the No. 3 best selling fashion doll line and the No. 7 best selling doll line overall in the U.S. [11]
If you happen to still own one of those original Samantha dolls, along with accessories and outfits, you might be sitting on a fortune worth a lot more than a doll-sized amount. Photo credit: eBay
Equestria Girls is regarded as Hasbro's take on Monster High, [13] a line of goth-themed fashion dolls launched by Mattel (one of the major rivals of Hasbro in the toy industry) in 2010. Monster High featured non-human skin and hair colors, was supported by multimedia tie-ins , and had its popularity and sales peaked in 2012 and 2013 . [ 14 ]
Dress-up is a children's game in which costumes or clothing are put on a person or on a doll, for role-playing or aesthetics purposes. In the UK the game is called dressing up. In the mid-1990s, dress-up games also became a video game genre in which customizing a virtual character's appearance is the primary focus.