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Transmission Games
Transmission Games (originally known as ''IR Gurus'') was an Australian game development company, specialising in sports and action games. Originally, Transmission Games was established as IR Gurus Pty Ltd in 1996 by Craig Laughton, Andrew Niere, and Ian Cunliffe with the motto "Game Play is Everything". The company name was changed in February 2008 to Transmission Games and was later purchased by a third party investor. The company was subsequently wound up some 18 months later by the new owner. Transmission Games had developed many games, including: ''Ashes Cricket 2009'' for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC, ''Heatseeker'' for the PlayStation 2, Wii, and PSP, ''Heroes of the Pacific'' for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC, the AFL Premiership series of games for the PlayStation 2, and ''The Saddle Club – Willowbrook Stables''. The company was based in Melbourne, Australia and its last games released were ''Ashes Cricket 2009'' (which was published by Codemasters), ''Heatseek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 In Video Gaming
1996 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as ''Super Mario 64 is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was released in Japan and North America in 1996 and PAL regions in 1997. It is the first ''Super Mario'' game to feature 3D gameplay, combining traditional ''Su ...'', ''Duke Nukem 3D'', ''Street Fighter Alpha 2'', ''Super Mario RPG'', ''Virtua Fighter 3'', and ''Tekken 3'', along with new titles such as ''Blazing Heroes'', ''NiGHTS into Dreams...'', ''Crash Bandicoot (video game), Crash Bandicoot'', ''Pokémon Red and Blue, Pokémon Red/Green/Blue'', ''Resident Evil (1996 video game), Resident Evil'', ''Dead or Alive (video game), Dead or Alive'', ''Quake (video game), Quake'' and ''Tomb Raider (1996 video game), Tomb Raider''. The year's best-selling video game console worldwide was the PlayStation (console), PlayStation, while the best-selling consoles in Japan were the Game Boy and Sega Saturn. The year's best-sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL Live Premiership Edition
The ''AFL'' video game series is a series of Australian rules football video games based on the AFL. Released originally by Beam Software, it has since been developed by several other game developers. Games in the series ''Aussie Rules Footy'' *Developer: Beam Software *Publisher: Mattel *Released for: NES *Release date: 1991 It was the first AFL video game. The game involves playing a game of Australian rules football from a third-person perspective, with the ability to perform the basic actions of a typical player of the sport. The game can be played by one person, or by two players against each other. There is also a kick to kick mode, and a season mode where one to six players can play multiple games in a season finishing with a grand final. It was developed by Beam Software, and was published by Mattel. ''AFL Finals Fever'' *Developer: Blue Tongue Entertainment *Publisher: Cadability, EA Sports *Released for: Microsoft Windows *Release date: 1996 It was released for Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tantalus Interactive
Tantalus Media (formerly Tantalus Entertainment and Tantalus Interactive) is an Australian video game developer based in Melbourne. It was founded in 1994 by Video game programmer, programmers Andrew Bailey and Trevor Nuridin. Since its inception, Tantalus has developed almost 100 games and has won multiple game awards. In March 2021, Keywords Studios acquired 85% of Tantalus Media for . History Initially, Tantalus was porting games from the PlayStation (console), PlayStation and arcade to the Sega Saturn. Its first original title was ''South Park Rally'', completed for all four platforms of the time in eighteen months. The fast pipeline was largely attributed to the existing in-house title - 7th Gear. The development team at Tantalus worked on their first handheld game ''ATV Quad Power Racing'' for the Game Boy Advance while another title Woody Woodpecker: Crazy Castle 5 was also developed concurrently. Kemco delayed its release to July 2002 (interestingly this title saw the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Tongue Entertainment
Blue Tongue Entertainment Pty, Ltd. was an Australian video game developer founded in 1995. It was acquired by THQ on 17 November 2004, and remained an internal development studio of THQ until its closure in August 2011. In addition to THQ, Blue Tongue had worked with the publishers Hasbro Interactive and Vivendi Universal Games. Blue Tongue originally provided web development services, and moved into video games in 1995 with their first release, ''AFL (video game series)#AFL Finals Fever, AFL Finals Fever''. It was released on 9 June 1996 and reached number 3 on the Australian software sales charts. Another game, ''Riding Star'', was their first international release. It was ported to multiple platforms, including the PlayStation (console), PlayStation and the Game Boy. Blue Tongue developed the TOSHI game engine used internally for many of its projects. In 2008, Blue Tongue finished ''de Blob'', its first original game since ''Riding Star'', for the Wii system. ''de Blob'' wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Lara International Cricket
Brian Lara Cricket is a series of six cricket video games that are endorsed by the West Indian cricketer Brian Lara and published by Codemasters. Games As of 2007, there are six games in the Brian Lara Cricket series on eight video game systems, spanning thirteen years. Brian Lara Cricket ''Brian Lara Cricket'' is the first game in the series to be endorsed by Brian Lara. It was developed by Audiogenic and published by Codemasters in 1994 for DOS and then a year later in 1995 for the Sega Mega Drive and Commodore Amiga systems. Brian Lara Cricket '96 Also known as ''Lara '96'', this game is a new version of Brian Lara Cricket on the Mega Drive with updated player names and statistics. It is the final game in the series to be developed by Audiogenic and was published by Codemasters in 1996. Brian Lara Cricket '99 Released in 1999, this was the first 3D accelerated game in the series. It was the first fifth generation game in the series, developed and shipped by Codemasters fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismiss each batter (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side either catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground, or hitting a wicket with the ball before a batter can cross the crease in front of the wicket. When ten batters have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football 2
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in North America and Australia); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby union and rugby league; and Gaelic football. These various forms of football share to varying extent common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th century. The expansion and cultural influence of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread to areas of British infl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurling
Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of players and much glossary of Gaelic games terms, terminology. The same game played by women is called camogie ('), which shares a common Gaelic root. The objective of the game is for players to use an Fraxinus excelsior, ash wood stick called a Hurley (stick), hurley (in Irish a ', pronounced or ) to hit a small ball called a ' between the opponent's goalposts either over the crossbar for one point or under the crossbar into a net guarded by a gaelic football and Hurling positions#Goalkeeper, goalkeeper for three points. The ' can be caught in the hand and carried for not more than four steps, struck in the air or struck on the ground with the hurley. It can be kicked, or slapped with an open hand (the hand pass), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
