• personal computer is Starglider (1986). Vector game can also refer to a video game that uses a vector graphics display capable of projecting images using...
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    Isometric video game graphics are graphics employed in video games and pixel art that use a parallel projection, but which angle the viewpoint to reveal...
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    In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene, most often in a 2D video game. Originally, the term...
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    arcade game started the trend of realistic military-themed action shooters, and featured side-scrolling environments and high-quality graphics for the...
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  • the mid-1990s. Although generally replaced in favor of video games that use non-textual graphics, text-based games continue to be written by independent...
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  • flip-screen graphics to scrolling graphics during the golden age of arcade games was a pivotal leap in game design, comparable to the move to 3D graphics during...
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    A tile-based video game, or grid-based video game, is a type of video game where the playing area consists of small square (or, much less often, rectangular...
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    have used specialized graphics circuits since the 1970s. In early video game hardware, RAM for frame buffers was expensive, so video chips composited data...
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    stereo display. Such games should not be confused with video games that use 3D game graphics on a mono screen, which give the illusion of depth only...
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    A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially...
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  • levels and graphics data. Since the golden age of arcade video games, it became common for video game companies to develop in-house game engines for...
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  • A video game remake is a video game closely adapted from an earlier title, usually for the purpose of modernizing a game with updated graphics for newer...
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    Video gaming in the United States is one of the fastest-growing entertainment industries in the country. The American video game industry is the largest...
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  • Full-motion video (FMV) is a video game narration technique that relies upon pre-recorded video files (rather than sprites, vectors, or 3D models) to...
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    Voxel (redirect from Voxel graphics)
    1990s video games employed this graphics technique for effects such as reflection and bump-mapping and usually for terrain rendering. Outcast's graphics engine...
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  • was using wire frame graphics for everything from character models to environments, paying homage to early video game graphics such as were seen in the...
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  • the vector graphics-based Asteroids in 1979, made possible by new computing technology that had greater power and lower costs. Arcade video games switched...
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    3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3-D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of...
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    had more advanced graphics and sound capabilities than the prior generation of computers, and made for key platforms for video game development, particularly...
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    Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a video display controller and accompanying de facto graphics standard, first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers...
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    camera systems, video game developers use techniques such as constraint solvers, artificial intelligence scripts, or autonomous agents. In video games, "third-person"...
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  • use of 3D graphics made it a huge hit, with approximately 15,000 cabinets sold. With its use of three-dimensional vector graphics, the game is considered...
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  • early example of 3D graphics in video games, and has enemies and objects as 2D images, a technique sometimes referred to as 2.5D graphics. Doom was the third...
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  • CPC versions, ACE gave the game a rating of 5 out of 5, noting the "extremely well executed" graphics and referring to the game as a "budget classic." UK...
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  • simulation video game developed by Will Wright, and released for several platforms from 1989 to 1991. SimCity features two-dimensional graphics and an overhead...
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  • Certain video games often gain negative reception from reviewers perceiving them as having low-quality or outdated graphics, glitches, poor controls for...
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  • Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a 1997 role-playing video game developed and published by Interplay Productions, set in a mid-22nd century...
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  • memory. It is common in Intel and AMD processors with integrated graphics, SoCs and video game consoles. Supported on some discrete GPUs with the use of an...
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  • the game's graphics, design, sounds and replay value. It was nominated for multiple year-end accolades, including Game of the Year from several gaming publications...
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    2D computer graphics with its introduction to video games in the early 1980s. Some parallax scrolling was used in the arcade video game Jump Bug (1981)...
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