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Tally-ho dates from around 1772, and is probably derived from the French taïaut, a cry used to excite hounds when hunting deer. [1]Taïaut may have originated in the second half of the 13th century by the concatenation of a two-word war-cry: taille haut, where "taille" is the cutting edge of a sword and "haut" means high or 'raised up'.
Choice of Games LLC is a video game developer based in California that creates interactive fiction. [1] They create their games in the custom-made ChoiceScript programming language, which is designed for writing multiple-choice games with a small number of variables. [2] The company was founded by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse in 2009.
The company was founded in Cincinnati in 1867 as Russell, Morgan & Co. and originally specialized in printing posters for traveling circuses. [3] [4] The company took its name from partners A. O. Russell and Robert J. Morgan, who together with James M. Armstrong and John F. Robinson Jr. purchased the Enquirer Job Printing Rooms division of the newspaper The Cincinnati Enquirer. [5]
Swordquest is a series of video games originally produced by Atari, Inc. in the 1980s as part of a contest, consisting of three finished games, Earthworld, Fireworld and Waterworld (with these titles occasionally appearing on cartridge labels and boxes with capitalized central Ws, e.g. EarthWorld), and a planned fourth game, Airworld.
The logo of the 1993 Southeast Asian Games is an image of a lion, which represents Singapore with the nickname, the lion city as the host of the 1993 Southeast Asian Games. The colours of the lion, blue, yellow, red, black and green are colours of the Olympic movement and represents the Olympic and sportsmanship spirit of the participating ...
Heavenly Sword is a 2007 action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by British company Ninja Theory and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The game revolves around player-character Nariko and her eponymous sword, battling against the forces of a tyrant warlord who seeks to destroy her clan.
Players assume the roles of sword-wielding barbarians, who battle in locales such as a forest glade and a "fighting pit". [1] The game's head-to-head mode lets a player fight against another or the computer in time-limited matches. The game also features a single-player story mode, which comprises a series of plot-connected challenges. [2]
The police know the identity of the thieves—the Lorenzos of Tally-Ho Cottage. The Lorenzos eluded capture, but had to leave their poodle, Poppet, at the cottage. They had engaged an elderly couple, the Larkins, to take care of it, but they had wanted to take their poodle with them.