Sugoroku
(literally 'double six') refers to two different forms of a Japanese board game: ''ban-sugoroku'' (盤双六, 'board-sugoroku') which is similar to western tables games like Backgammon, and ''e-sugoroku'' (絵双六, 'picture-sugoroku') which is similar to western Snakes and Ladders. Ban-sugoroku ''Ban-sugoroku'' is played in a similar way to western tables games. It has the same starting position as Backgammon, but the aim and rules of play are different. Compared with modern Backgammon: * Doubles are not special. If a player rolls doubles, each die still counts only once. * There is no "bearing off". The goal is to move all of one's men to within the last six spaces of the board. * There is no doubling cube. * "Closing out", that is forming a prime of six contiguous points with one or more of opponents men on the bar, is an automatic win. The game is thought to have been introduced from China (where it was known as Shuanglu) into Japan in the sixth century. It is known tha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sugoroku2500
(literally 'double six') refers to two different forms of a Japanese board game: ''ban-sugoroku'' (盤双六, 'board-sugoroku') which is similar to western tables games like Backgammon, and ''e-sugoroku'' (絵双六, 'picture-sugoroku') which is similar to western Snakes and Ladders. Ban-sugoroku ''Ban-sugoroku'' is played in a similar way to western tables games. It has the same starting position as Backgammon, but the aim and rules of play are different. Compared with modern Backgammon: * Doubles are not special. If a player rolls doubles, each die still counts only once. * There is no "bearing off". The goal is to move all of one's men to within the last six spaces of the board. * There is no doubling cube. * "Closing out", that is forming a prime of six contiguous points with one or more of opponents men on the bar, is an automatic win. The game is thought to have been introduced from China (where it was known as Shuanglu) into Japan in the sixth century. It is known tha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Yu-Gi-Oh! Video Games
The following is a list of video games developed and published by Konami, based on Kazuki Takahashi's ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' manga and anime franchise, along with its spin-off series. With some exceptions, the majority of the games follow the card battle gameplay of the real-life ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game''. There are 56 in total. Platforms: Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Mobile, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PSP, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S. Games {{Video game titles, {{Video game titles/item , article= , title={{nihongo foot, Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule: Breed and Battle, 遊☆戯☆王モンスターカプセル ブリード&バトル, Yū-Gi-Ō! Monsutā Kapuseru: Burīdo ando Batoru, lead=yes, group=lower-alpha , date={{vgrelease, JP, July 23, 1998, JP, March 28, 2002 (''PSOne Books'') , refs= , release=1998—PlayStation , notes=*Published an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Samurai Warriors 2
is a sequel to the original ''Samurai Warriors'', created by Koei and Omega Force. The game was released in 2006 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360, and ported to Microsoft Windows in 2008. Like the ''Dynasty Warriors'' series, an ''Empires'' expansion was released as well, and an ''Xtreme Legends'' expansion followed on August 23, 2007, in Japan. The game, alongside its two expansions, ''Xtreme Legends'' and ''Empires'' also receive a HD-enhanced port for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita under the name ''Sengoku Musou 2 with Moushouden & Empires: HD Version''. ''Samurai Warriors 3'', the sequel to Samurai Warriors 2 and the third game in the series was released in December 2009 for the Wii. Gameplay The gameplay of ''Samurai Warriors 2'' builds on the first ''Samurai Warriors'' by adding new characters and new features, such as the removal of the traditional range attacks in favor of the addition of two unique special abilities that differ from character to character. For ex ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Battle Hunter
''Battle Hunter'', known in Japan as and in Europe as ''The Hunter'', is an anime-styled tactical role-playing game, released for the PlayStation in 1999. It was released in Japan as part of the SuperLite 1500 series of budget games. The game revolves around a player-controlled hunter that must compete with three other hunters in order to win a relic, and makes heavy use of traditional RPG conventions such as dice and tile-based movement. Story In the years after a major world war, the few scientists remaining on Earth set out to develop a formula to protect humanity from extinction. To be successful they require vital information from the ruins of cities around the world, and assign the task of collecting it to an elite task force known as the Hunters. The story revolves around the player getting jobs from the shop owner to recover relics of interest from dungeons. Eventually the player will compete against a secret organization known as B PHS for the target relics. Gameplay Ga ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Family Pirate Party
''Family Pirate Party'' (''Okiraku Sugoroku Wii'' in Japan) is a pirate-themed party video game developed by Arc System Works for WiiWare. It was released in Japan on January 17, 2009, and later, released in North America on May 11, 2009 and the PAL region on July 30, 2010. Gameplay Players control a member of a family, which includes a mother, father, son (Billy), and daughter (Sarah), as they traverse around a group of islands, competing against each other to collect the most gold pieces. In addition to picking up random Help Cards that allows them to gain more gold or steal pieces from other players, players may also encounter brief minigames that require them to use the Wii Remote to fight off an angry octopus or shoot down cannonballs or asteroids heading towards them. The game features additional downloadable content in the form of new maps and a swimsuit costume for each character. Reception ''Family Pirate Party'' received negative reviews from critics upon release. O ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hello Kitty
, also known by her full name , is a fictional Character (arts), character created by Yuko Shimizu, currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi, and owned by the Japanese company Sanrio. Sanrio depicts Hello Kitty as an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphized white cat with a red bow and no visible mouth. According to her backstory, she lives in a London suburb with her family, and is close to her twin sister Mimmy, who is depicted with a yellow bow. Hello Kitty was created in 1974 and the first item, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in 1975. Originally Hello Kitty was only marketed towards preadolescent, pre-teenage girls, but beginning in the 1990s, the brand found commercial success among teenage and adult consumers as well. Hello Kitty's popularity also grew with the emergence of ''kawaii'' (cute) culture. The brand went into decline in Japan after the 1990s, but continued to grow in the international market. By 2010 the character was worth a year and ''The New York Times'' called h ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Japanese Games
This is a list of traditional Japanese games. Some of them are localized. Games Children's games * Beigoma * Bīdama * Daruma-san * Hide-and-seek * Kemari * Kendama * Ken-ken-pa (Hopscotch) * Menko * Nawatobi (Jump rope) * Ohajiki * Onigokko * Oshikura Manju * Otedama Board games * Go - originates in China, important rules change (free opening) in Japan * Renju * Shogi * Sugoroku * Ninuki-renju Card games * Buta no shippo * Daifugō (another name: Daihinmin) * Hanafuda * Karuta * Oicho-Kabu * Two-ten-jack (Tsū-ten-jakku) - a Japanese trick-taking card game. * Uta-garuta - a kind of karuta (another name: Hyakunin Isshu) Tile games * Japanese Mahjong - Japanese mahjong, also called rīchi mahjong *Sudoku Dice games * Cho-han bakuchi - a gambling game * Kitsune bakuchi Word games *Dajare *Henohenomoheji * Kaibun *Shiritori *Uta-garuta See also *Japanese role-playing game *Video game Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tables Game
Tables games are a class of board game that includes backgammon and which are played on a tables board, typically with two rows of 12 vertical markings called points. Players roll dice to determine the movement of pieces. Tables games are among the oldest known board games, and many different varieties are played throughout the world. They are called 'tables' games because the boards consist of four quadrants or 'tables'. The vast majority are race games, the tables board representing a linear race track with start and finish points, the aim being to be first to the finish line, but the characteristic features that distinguish tables games from other race games are that they are two-player games using a large number of pieces, usually fifteen per player. Tables games should not be confused with table games which are casino gambling games like roulette or blackjack. Name The word 'tables' is derived from the Latin ''tabula'' which primarily meant 'board' or 'plank', but also ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Backgammon
Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Persia. The earliest record of backgammon itself dates to 17th-century England, being descended from the 16th-century Irish (game), game of Irish.Forgeng, Johnson and Cram (2003), p. 269. Backgammon is a two-player game of contrary movement in which each player has fifteen piece (tables game), pieces, known traditionally as 'men' (short for 'tablemen') but increasingly known as 'checkers' in the US in recent decades. These pieces move along twenty-four 'point (tables game), points' according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to move the fifteen pieces around the board and be first to ''bear off'', i.e., remove them from the board. The achievement of this while the opponent is still a long way behind results in a triple wi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Itadaki Street
is a party video game series originally created by ''Dragon Quest'' designer Yuji Horii. It is currently owned by Square Enix and Kadokawa. The first game was released in Japan on Nintendo's Famicom console in 1991. Since then, new installments in the series have been released for the Super Famicom, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Mobile Phones, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. The series was exclusive to Japan prior to the 2011 ''Itadaki Street Wii'', which is released as ''Fortune Street'' in North America and ''Boom Street'' in PAL regions. Development Horii in a 1989 interview stated he was working on a board game with former Famitsu editor Yoshimitsu Shiozaki and that working in a "completely different genre" to the ''Dragon Quest'' games was worthwhile. While creating the first stage, a play test revealed the board was really hard, so a practice stage was constructed and was also too difficult, leading to stage one eventually ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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UC Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system. Its fourteen colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 31,800 undergraduate and 13,200 graduate students. Berkeley ranks among the world's top universities. A founding member of the Association of American Universities, Berkeley hosts many leading research institutes dedicated to science, engineering, and mathematics. The university founded and maintains close relationships with three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, national laboratories at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Monumenta Nipponica
''Monumenta Nipponica'' is a semi-annual academic journal of Japanese studies. Published by Sophia University (Tokyo), it is one of the oldest English-language academic journals in the field of Asian studies, being founded in 1938. Although the journal originally published articles in several languages, such as French, German, Spanish, and Italian, the journal has been published solely in English since early 1963. A series of 75 monographs were also published until 1986 under the ''Monumenta Nipponica'' name. A symposium was held at Sophia University on October 6, 2018 to commemorate the 80-year anniversary of ''Monumenta Nipponica’s'' founding. Videos of the symposium are available on YouTube. In 2020, Sophia University published a special issue commemorating ''Monumenta Nipponica’s'' 80-year founding, showcasing the people who made the journal happen and noteworthy historical events. Contents Each issue contains two to three main research articles, and around twenty reviews ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |