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Don Daglow, the Glossary

Don Daglow (born circa 1953) is an American video game designer, programmer, and producer.^[1]

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Academy of Art University

The Academy of Art University (AAU, or ART U), formerly Academy of Art College and Richard Stephens Academy of Art, is a private for-profit art school in San Francisco, California.

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Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is a non-profit organization of video game industry professionals.

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Adventure Construction Set

Adventure Construction Set (ACS) is a game creation system written by Stuart Smith that is used to construct tile-based graphical adventure games.

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Amnesia (1986 video game)

Amnesia is a text adventure written by science fiction author Thomas M. Disch and programmed by Kevin Bentley.

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The Apple II series of microcomputers was initially designed by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and launched in 1977 with the Apple II model that gave the series its name.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California.

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Blue Sky Rangers

The Blue Sky Rangers is a group of Intellivision game programmers who previously worked for Mattel in the early 1980s. Don Daglow and Blue Sky Rangers are Intellivision.

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Boulder Dash (video game)

Boulder Dash is a maze-based puzzle video game released in 1984 by First Star Software for Atari 8-bit computers.

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Broderbund

Broderbund Software, Inc. (stylized as Brøderbund) was an American maker of video games, educational software, and productivity tools.

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Buzz Bombers

Buzz Bombers is a fixed shooter video game developed by Mattel Electronics for its Intellivision system and released in 1982.

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Cathryn Mataga

Cathryn Mataga (born William Mataga) is a game programmer and founder of independent video game company Junglevision. Don Daglow and Cathryn Mataga are American video game programmers and Dungeons & Dragons video game designers.

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Claremont Colleges

The Claremont Colleges (known colloquially as the 7Cs) are a consortium of seven private institutions of higher education located in Claremont, California, United States.

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Claremont, California

Claremont is a suburban city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, east of Los Angeles.

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Computer Gaming World

Computer Gaming World (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006.

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Computer terminal

A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that can be used for entering data into, and transcribing data from, a computer or a computing system.

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Console war

In the video game industry, a console war describes the competition between two or more video game console manufacturers in trying to achieve better consumer sales through more advanced console technology, an improved selection of video games, and general marketing around their consoles.

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Construction and management simulation

Construction and management simulation (CMS), sometimes also called management sim or building sim, is a subgenre of simulation game in which players build, expand or manage fictional communities or projects with limited resources.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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D.I.C.E. Awards

The D.I.C.E. Awards (formerly the Interactive Achievement Awards) is an annual awards show in the video game industry, and commonly referred to as the video game equivalent of the Academy Awards.

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DECUS

The Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society (DECUS) was an independent computer user group related to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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Dungeon (video game)

Dungeon was one of the earliest role-playing video games, running on PDP-10 mainframe computers manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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EA Sports

EA Sports is a division of Electronic Arts that develops and publishes sports video games.

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Earl Weaver Baseball

Earl Weaver Baseball is a baseball video game (1987) designed by Don Daglow and Eddie Dombrower and published by Electronic Arts.

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Early mainframe games

Mainframe computers are computers used primarily by businesses and academic institutions for large-scale processes.

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Eddie Dombrower

Eddie Dombrower (born 1957) is an American computer game and video game designer, programmer, and producer. Don Daglow and Eddie Dombrower are American video game designers, American video game programmers, Intellivision and Pomona College alumni.

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Educational technology

Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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ELIZA

ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program developed from 1964 to 1967 at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum.

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EverQuest

EverQuest is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) originally developed by Verant Interactive and 989 Studios for Windows PCs.

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Game design

Game design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems and rules of a game.

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Game Developer (magazine)

Game Developer was a magazine for video game creators, originally started in March 1994 by Miller Freeman, Inc as quarterly, later bimonthly, and finally monthly.

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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Game Developers Conference

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers.

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Games Convention

The Games Convention (GC), sometimes called the Leipzig Games Convention, was an annual video game event held in Leipzig, Germany, first held in 2002.

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GameSpy

GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas.

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Gateway to the Savage Frontier

Gateway to the Savage Frontier (1991) is a Gold Box Dungeons & Dragons computer game developed by Beyond Software and published by SSI for the Commodore 64, PC and Amiga personal computers.

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God game

A god game is an artificial life game that casts the player in the position of controlling the game on a large scale, as an entity with divine and supernatural powers, as a great leader, or with no specified character (as in Spore), and places them in charge of a game setting containing autonomous characters to guard and influence.

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Gold Box

Gold Box is a series of role-playing video games produced by Strategic Simulations from 1988 to 1992.

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Home computer

Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s.

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IBM 1620

The IBM 1620 was announced by IBM on October 21, 1959, and marketed as an inexpensive scientific computer.

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Id Software

id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.

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Inc. (magazine)

Inc. is an American business magazine founded in 1979 and based in New York City.

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Intellivision

The Intellivision is a home video game console released by Mattel Electronics in 1979.

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Intellivision World Series Baseball

Intellivision World Series Major League Baseball is a baseball video game (1983) designed by Don Daglow and Eddie Dombrower, and published by Mattel for the Intellivision Entertainment Computer System.

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International Game Developers Association

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is a nonprofit professional association whose stated mission is to "support and empower game developers around the world in achieving fulfilling and sustainable careers." The IGDA is incorporated in the United States as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organisation.

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Joe Ybarra

Joseph Ybarra (born ~1954) is an American producer and designer of video games. Don Daglow and Joe Ybarra are American video game designers.

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John Burgeson

John W. Burgeson (19 August 1931 – 12 September 2016) was an IBM engineer who created the first computer baseball simulation game in 1961 on an IBM 1620 Computer in Akron, Ohio. Don Daglow and John Burgeson are American video game designers.

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John Carmack

John D. Carmack II (born August 21, 1970) is an American computer programmer and video game developer. Don Daglow and John Carmack are American video game designers and American video game programmers.

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Jordan Mechner

Jordan Mechner (born June 4, 1964) is an American video game designer, graphic novelist, author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and former video game programmer. Don Daglow and Jordan Mechner are American video game designers.

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Kelton Flinn

Kelton Flinn is an American computer game designer who is a major pioneer in online games. Don Daglow and Kelton Flinn are American video game designers.

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Lords of Conquest

Lords of Conquest is a strategy video game published in 1986 by Electronic Arts.

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Lucasfilm

Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Mail Order Monsters

Mail Order Monsters is an action-strategy computer game created by Paul Reiche III, Evan Robinson, and Nicky Robinson.

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Mainframe computer

A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing.

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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.

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Mattel

Mattel, Inc. is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company founded in Los Angeles by Harold Matson and the husband-and-wife duo of Ruth and Elliot Handler in January 1945 and headquartered in El Segundo, California.

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Maxis

Maxis is an American video game developer and a division of Electronic Arts (EA).

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Michael Morhaime

Michael Morhaime (born November 3, 1967) is an American video game developer and entrepreneur.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by the, dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

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Neverwinter Nights (1991 video game)

Neverwinter Nights was an early graphical multiplayer online role-playing game, which ran from 1991 to 1997 on AOL.

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Non-player character

A non-player character (NPC), also called a non-playable character, is a character in a game that is not controlled by a player.

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Novella

A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories.

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Old Time Baseball

Old Time Baseball is a 1995 baseball video game designed and programmed by Don Daglow, Hudson Piehl, Clay Dreslough, and James Grove.

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Parsing

Parsing, syntax analysis, or syntactic analysis is the process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language, computer languages or data structures, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar.

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Patton Versus Rommel

Patton vs.

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PDP-10

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family manufactured beginning in 1966 and discontinued in 1983.

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Play-by-mail game

A play-by-mail game (also known as a PBM game, PBEM game, turn-based game, turn based distance game, or an interactive strategy game.) is a game played through postal mail, email, or other digital media.

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Pomona College

Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California.

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Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia is a video game franchise created by Jordan Mechner.

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Programmer

A programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code someone with skill in computer programming.

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Racing Destruction Set

Racing Destruction Set is a racing video game published in 1985 for the Commodore 64 by Electronic Arts.

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Real-time strategy

Real-time strategy (RTS) is a subgenre of strategy video games that does not progress incrementally in turns, but allow all players to play simultaneously, in "real time".

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Realm of Impossibility

Realm of Impossibility is an action game created by Mike Edwards for Atari 8-bit computers and published by Electronic Arts in 1984.

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Rebel Space

Rebel Space was the second play-by-email game offered as part of a major commercial online service.

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Return to Atlantis (video game)

Return to Atlantis is a 1988 video game published by Electronic Arts for the Amiga.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Rafael, California

San Rafael (Spanish for "St. Raphael") is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Shark! Shark!

Shark! Shark! is an Intellivision game originally designed by Don Daglow, and with additional design and programming by Ji-Wen Tsao, one of the first female game programmers in the history of video games.

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SimCity (1989 video game)

SimCity (also known as the retronyms Micropolis or SimCity Classic) is a city-building simulation video game developed by Will Wright, and released for several platforms from 1989 to 1991.

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Simulation video game

Simulation video games are a diverse super-category of video games, generally designed to closely simulate real world activities.

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Society for American Baseball Research

The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is a membership organization dedicated to fostering the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball, primarily through the use of statistics.

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Sports video game

A sports video game is a video game that simulates the practice of sports.

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.

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Star Trek (1971 video game)

Star Trek is a text-based strategy video game based on the Star Trek television series (1966–69) and originally released in 1971.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

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Star Wars (1983 video game)

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released as an arcade video game in 1983 by Atari, Inc. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars.

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Stormfront Studios

Stormfront Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer based in San Rafael, California.

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Strategic Simulations

Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a video game developer and publisher with over 100 titles to its credit from its founding in 1979 to its dissolution in 1994 (though the brand was in use until around 2002).

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Stronghold (1993 video game)

Stronghold is a Dungeons & Dragons city-building real-time strategy computer game published by SSI and developed by Stormfront Studios in 1993.

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Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards

The Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards, or Technology and Engineering Emmys, are one of two sets of Emmy Awards that are presented for outstanding achievement in engineering development in the television industry.

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The Ancient Art of War

The Ancient Art of War is a computer wargame designed by Dave and Barry Murry of Evryware and published by Broderbund in 1984.

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The Killer Shrews

The Killer Shrews is a 1959 American independent science fiction film directed by Ray Kellogg, and produced by Ken Curtis and Gordon McLendon.

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press.

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Tony La Russa Baseball

Tony La Russa Baseball is a baseball computer and video game console sports game series (1991-1997), designed by Don Daglow, Michael Breen, Mark Buchignani, David Bunnett and Hudson Piehl and developed by Stormfront Studios.

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Treasures of the Savage Frontier

Treasures of the Savage Frontier (1992) is a Gold Box Dungeons & Dragons role-playing video game.

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Trip Hawkins

William Murray "Trip" Hawkins III (born December 28, 1953) is an American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, and Digital Chocolate.

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Tron: Deadly Discs

Tron: Deadly Discs is a video game for the Intellivision console published by Mattel in 1982.

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Ultima Online

Ultima Online (UO) is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released on September 24, 1997 by Origin Systems.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University

A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.

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Utopia (video game)

Utopia is a 1982 strategy video game by Don Daglow released for the Intellivision and Mattel Aquarius.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Academy of Art University faculty

Dungeons & Dragons video game designers

Intellivision

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