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The Romanian word moș means an elder male person. [2] The term ger means "frost" in Romanian. Moș Gerilă's name is a translation of the Russian Ded Moroz and was adopted by the Romanian communists, under influence of the Soviet model, as a new name for Moș Crăciun (Santa Claus).
Ludwig Wittgenstein is well known in the history of philosophy for having addressed the definition of the word game.In his Philosophical Investigations, [6] Wittgenstein argued that the elements of games, such as play, rules, and competition, all fail to adequately define what games are.
Microsoft acquired one such site, The Village, in 1996, and rebranded it as the Internet Gaming Zone, offering various card and board browser games. [16] ClassicGames.com was created in 1997 to host a selection of classic, Java-based online multiplayer games such as chess and checkers; its popularity led Yahoo! to purchase the site in 1998 and ...
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Puzzle video games owe their origins to brain teasers and puzzles throughout human history. The mathematical strategy game Nim, and other traditional thinking games such as Hangman and Bulls and Cows (commercialized as Mastermind), were popular targets for computer implementation.
Guerrilla is the result of a merger between three Dutch video game studios: Orange Games, Digital Infinity, and Formula Game Development. [2] [3] Orange Games was founded in 1993 by Arjan Brussee, the co-designer of the 1994 game Jazz Jackrabbit; [4] Digital Infinity was founded by Arnout van der Kamp in 1995; [3] and Formula was founded by Martin de Ronde in 1998 and sold to Lost Boys (a ...
NiBiRu is a remake of the company's first game Messenger of the Gods (1998). [5]NiBiRu uses the AGDS (Advanced Graphic Development System) engine that apart from standard elements enables several graphical effects like rain, lightning, fog, etc.
The Department of State Security (Romanian: Departamentul Securității Statului), commonly known as the Securitate (pronounced [sekuriˈtate], lit. ' Security '), was the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania.