• The 1997 Island Games were the seventh Island Games, and were held in Jersey, from June 28, to July 4, 1997.   *   Host nation (Jersey) The sports chosen...
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  • The Island Games (currently known as the NatWest International Island Games for sponsorship reasons) are biennial international multi-sports events organised...
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  • The Curse of Monkey Island is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts in 1997. A sequel to 1991's Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, it...
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  • The 1997 Island Games on the island of Jersey was the 5th edition in which a men's football tournament was played at the multi-games competition. It was...
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  • Funny Games (alternatively titled Funny Games U.S.) is a 2007 psychological horror-thriller film written and directed by Michael Haneke, and a remake...
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  • 1997 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as Final Fantasy VII, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, GoldenEye 007, Star Fox 64, Crash Bandicoot...
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    Monkey Island is a series of adventure games. The first four games were produced and published by LucasArts, earlier known as Lucasfilm Games. The fifth...
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  • Lego Island is a Lego-themed open world action-adventure game developed and published by Mindscape. It was released for Windows on September 26, 1997, as...
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  • Football has been a regular event since 1989 at the Island Games, the biennial multi-sports event for island nations, territories and dependencies. A 5-a-side...
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  • The XIX Island Games (also known as the 2023 NatWest Island Games for sponsorship reasons) were to have been held in Guernsey in 2021 however due to the...
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  • The International Island Games Association (IIGA) is the organising body for the Island Games, a friendly biennial multi-sport competition between teams...
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    known for its line of adventure games based on its SCUMM engine in the 1990s, including Maniac Mansion, the Monkey Island series, and several Indiana Jones...
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  • second time that the island has hosted the games, the first being in 1997. The week long event saw around 3,000 competitors from 24 islands take part in 14...
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  • and based on the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Chaos Island was released in North America on October 30, 1997. In Chaos Island, the player controls...
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  • 2010s. Yoshi's Island sold more than four million copies. Reviewers acclaimed it as a masterpiece and one of the greatest video games of all time, praising...
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    Lithuania 1997. Island Games, for non-sovereign island communities of European nations, first held on the "Isle of Man" 1985. Pan American Games, held first...
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    Kelly Sotherton (category Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics)
    "NatWest Island Games Records 2005" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 September 2006. Retrieved 31 August 2006. "VIII NatWest Island Games 1999"...
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  • the games shared similar game interfaces and technology, powered by SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion). After 1997, these games transitioned...
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  • 1995, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, which introduces the universe staples which are used in many following games. These staples include colorful storybook...
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  • California and be titled X Games Ventura. The inaugural X Games were held during the summer of 1995 in Providence and Newport in Rhode Island. The competition often...
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  • The XVIII Island Games (officially the 2019 NatWest Island Games) was held in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar between 6 and 12 July 2019. This...
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    first competed at the Olympic Games in 1952. It competed as a British colony until 1996. After the territory's handover in 1997, it has competed since 2000...
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  • 2022, 2023, 2024 GQ – 2013, 2023 The Greatest Games – 1985 Hardcore Gaming 101 – 2015, 2020 Hyper – 1995, 1997, 1999 IGN – 2003, 2005, 2007, 2015, 2018, 2019...
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    states, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands send their own delegations to the Olympic Games. Twenty cities in nine countries (counting England...
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  • The XVII Island Games (also known as the 2017 NatWest Island Games for sponsorship reasons) was held in Gotland, Sweden, from 24 June to 30 June 2017...
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  • Gullah Gullah Island: Dance Along with the Daise Family (1997), and Gullah Gullah Island: Christmas (1998). Home videos of the show were released on...
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  • of Chuck Jacob, who at the time also owned the men's Long Island Rough Riders up until 1997 before selling it to Frank Boulton. At this time, the Rough...
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  • gold. The 1997 Games were criticized for poor preparation by local and international journalists, with Matai Akauo in the Pacific Islands Monthly describing...
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    the 2023 Games in Yekaterinburg due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, this edition replaced the 2023 event. 2017 2019 1972, 2023 1991 1997 2009 1960...
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    all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2022, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated...
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