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  2. iD (video game) - Wikipedia

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    iD is a video game developed by Mel Croucher and Colin Jones for the ZX Spectrum and published by CRL in 1986. The game is text-based and takes the form of a conversation with an entity that has inhabited the computer. The player's task is to gain the entity's trust and find out what other inanimate objects this entity has inhabited in the past.

  3. List of commercial video games released as freeware

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    Full Spectrum Warrior: 2004 2008 Real-time tactics: Windows Pandemic Studios: Released as a free ad-supported download. FS One 2022 2003 2022 RC Flight Sim Windows InertiaSoft Dr. Michael Selig felt that dealing with sales was a distraction from his research and development. Game is still being developed. Glider PRO: 1991 Mac OS, Mac OS X ...

  4. Jonathan Smith (games programmer) - Wikipedia

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    His games [1] were notable for containing a large number of sprites and parallax scrolling. His most notable games include Cobra , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] (which was a license extremely loosely based on the Sylvester Stallone film ) one of the first Spectrum games to exhibit full-colour parallax scrolling and his conversion of the arcade game Green Beret .

  5. Ocean Software - Wikipedia

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    Ocean Software Ltd was a British software development company that became one of the biggest European video game developers and publishers of the 1980s and 1990s.. The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and was based in Manchester.

  6. List of game engines - Wikipedia

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    See Category:SCUMM games: Proprietary: Full name is Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion, from the first game it was used with; uses iMUSE and INSANE; ScummVM provides an open source re-creation Scratch: 2007 Yes 2D Cross-platform GPL-2.0-or-later: Serious Engine: Yes 3D Serious Sam series: Proprietary: Shark 3D: C++: Python: Yes 3D ...

  7. Circuit ID - Wikipedia

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    A circuit ID is a company-specific identifier assigned to a data or voice network connection between two locations. This connection, often called a circuit, may then be leased to a customer referring to that ID. In this way, the circuit ID is similar to a serial number on any product sold from a retailer to a customer.

  8. Full Throttle (1984 video game) - Wikipedia

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    Full Throttle is a video game released in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and written by Mervyn Estcourt, creator of Deathchase. The player races a 500cc Grand Prix motorcycle on any of ten of the world's top racing circuits. It was ported to other platforms and released under the name Speed King.

  9. Tau Ceti (video game) - Wikipedia

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    CRASH, a Spectrum gaming magazine, summed Tau Ceti up in 1985 as "an excellent game, combining several elements with stunning graphics" and gave it an overall rating of 94%. [7] Another Spectrum magazine, Sinclair User , gave it a 5 star rating and declared "It's hard to imagine a better space game, unless one's talking about Elite , with its ...