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Refimprove date March 2010 Infobox Television show name The Big Showdown image File The Big Showdown.jpg 200px genre Game show creator director Dick Schneider presenter Jim Peck narrated Dan Daniel theme music composer Score Productions executive producer Don Lipp br Ron Greenberg producer Shelley Dobbins runtime 30 minutes country USA channel American Broadcasting Company ABC first aired December 23, 1974 last aired July 4, 1975 num episodes 140 The Big Showdown is a game show that aired on the American Broadcasting Company ABC television network from December 23, 1974 to July 4, 1975. Jim Peck , making his national television debut, was host with Dan Daniel, then a disc jockey on New York City s WHN radio, as announcer. The series was recorded at ABC s New York studios and packaged by Don Lipp and Ron Greenberg , with assistance by Universal Television MCA Television . Gameplay Round 1 The Big Showdown Three contestants competed. Before the round began, a payoff point was announced and a dollar value selected from a randomizer in Peck s podium 25, 50, 75, 100, or 500 . Peck read a one point toss up question. The first player to buzz in and correctly answer it chose from one of six available categories, ranging in point values from 1 6, represented by faces of a die. Play continued with contestants answering tossup questions from the categories and earning the associated point values. Contestants who answered a question incorrectly were locked out for the remainder of that question and their opponents were given a chance to answer. Contestants were also locked out from answering if the question s value would put them over the current payoff point, as it had to be hit exactly. The first player whose score reached the payoff point won the dollar value and a new payoff point was determined, raised proportionally to several points above the leading contestant s score. The first round consisted of at least four payoff points sometimes five, depending on the amount of ti ... more details
Multiple issues orphan February 2009 notability September 2008 refimprove June 2008 Infobox Website name Seventh Sanctum logo screenshot caption url http www.seventhsanctum.com SeventhSanctum.com commercial No type Randomizer language English registration No owner Steven Savage author launch date current status revenue slogan Seventh Sanctum sometimes just The Sanctum is a website run by Steven Savage also known as XWayfarer, or simply X . It is a collection of generators for creating random names, items, and even full descriptions of characters. There are generators for everything from spells and pirate ship names, to entire story plots and characters. Many of the generators are oriented towards science fiction , fantasy and anime , and are directed towards artists, writers, and role playing game rs. It is arguably one of the largest collections of random generators on the internet focused on mostly serious creativity enhancement. References and Awards Writer s Digest named Seventh Sanctum one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers for 2006. http www.writersdigest.com 101sites categorysearch.asp?year 101 2006 . The site is referenced in the book Multi Media Magic ISBN 1905713142 ISBN 978 1905713141 by occult writer Taylor Ellwood, as an example of a William S. Burroughs style cut up tool for inspiration or even occult concepts. History of the Website 1999 Site created as subsite of domain. Incorporated past JavaScript generator for Superhero Names, and one for anime attacks. Initially spawned after commentary that attacks in anime often sounded randomly generated. Site expanded continuously. 2000 2001 The site moved from JavaScript to PHP . 2004 Site moved to top level of domain. 2005 First random contest started. Generators There are over a hundred and forty generators which fall into the following seventeen categories. There are also examples from each category. Anime Manga including Catgirl Generator and Battle Aura paranormal Aura Generator Art including Sword Ge ... more details
Multiple issues wikify September 2010 refimprove March 2011 peacock March 2011 Sim horse games abbreviated form of simulated horse games , also called cyberbarn games , horse sims , or virtual horse games , are online browser based games. Sim horse game generally fall into one of two categories traditional classic forum or automated semi automated. Closely lined are All Sim and equine RPGs. Classic vs Automated sim games Classic or traditional sim horse games emerged in the 1980s as an opportunity for racing enthusiast s to own race horse s online and are a branch of life simulation game s. These games initially were run via email and throughout the course of the 1990s a divergence occurred. Racing gave way to showing and email communication was revolutionized as chat forums began to overtake the sim community. Members were then able to track data in a public place, campaign and breed their horses with one another, and the games became less of a simulation and more of a community. Many sites encourage members to build their own stables to display horse information including show results, photographs, and etc. Most classic sims emphasize realism in gameplay. Today classic sim games still utilize forum style game play. Many forums are ingenious in their integration of realistic information and statistics right down to BBcode ingenuity. The middle ground of classic and fully automated sim began in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Hybrid sims utilize classic stylings of forum gameplay but often integrate dynamic pages to simplify record keeping. For example a hybrid sim may have ebanking available for members so checks do not have to be manually collected or tallied. Other hybrid games choose to utilize a discipline specific randomizer for show results and utilize PHP technologies to immediately place results in a community database accessible to all. The most significant factor which defines a sim horse game as a hybrid is the integration of forum style game play with s ... more details
Image Radioverve logo.jpg thumb 200px right The RadioVeRVe Logo RadioVeRVe is an internet radio station operating out of Bangalore , India . It differentiates itself from other FM and internet radio stations by focusing exclusively on independent music from India . It addresses the common problem that independent artistes face all over the world mainstream radio doesn t play their music, so reach is limited. The RadioVeRVe team decided to pool their talents together and create a one of its kind venture, India s first Internet radio station dedicated wholly to independent Indian music. ref http www.hindu.com mp 2006 08 30 stories 2006083001090400.htm The Hindu Metro Plus Bangalore Music Login to radio Bot generated title ref First launched on June 1, 2006, RadioVeRVe originally launched as a platform to showcase rock music performed by unpublished bands in India, and to feature music performed by these bands, as well as interviews and news about them. It has since widened its musical scope to rock, heavy metal, easy listening, regional language and Indian classical music. The station has received interest from both the press as well as the music industry in India, and caters to thousands of listeners across the world 24 hours a day. Artistes featured on the station credit it with being responsible for their reaching audiences that they had not hoped to reach earlier, and getting record label offers, shows and even international tours. ref http cities.expressindia.com fullstory.php?newsid 201516 ref . Station Content To be featured on RadioVeRVe, artistes or bands need to be independent or indie Indian bands or musicians creating original music and with no formal affiliation to record labels as yet. The artistes have to be located in India to avoid commercial conflicts, the station does not currently play music performed by Indian artistes not located in India. Shows are RJ d, with some hours reserved for the Randomizer , where music is played at random from the huge ... more details
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Infobox game title Everway image caption designer Jonathan Tweet publisher Wizards of the Coast , Rubicon Games , Gaslight Press since 2001 date 1995 genre Fantasy system Custom footnotes Everway is a fantasy role playing game ref cite journal author Staff title Review Everway journal Shadis year 1996 month March issue 25 ref first published by Wizards of the Coast under their Alter Ego brand in the mid 1990s. Its lead designer was Jonathan Tweet . Marketed as a Visionary Roleplaying Game , it has often been characterized as an innovative piece with a limited commercial success. Wizards later abandoned the line, and Rubicon Games purchased it, and published several supplements. The line was sold again to Gaslight Press in February 2001. The game has a fantasy setting of the Parallel universe fiction multiverse type, with many different worlds, some of which differed from generic fantasy. It appears to have been heavily influenced by divinatory tarot , the four classical element s of History of Ancient Greece ancient Greece , and mythology mythologies from around the world. Everway was first with implementing, in a commercial game, several new concepts including much more picture based visual source material and character creation than usual. Like other works by Jonathan Tweet , the rules are very simple and flexible. It is also one of a few diceless role playing game s. Although the Fortune Deck works as a randomizer, the results obtained by it are entirely arbitrary and subjective, and the GM s absolute power over the game is further emphasized by the three resolution systems Karma the higher character ability wins, modified by situation , Drama the GM decides what happens, by what they think most appropriate , and Fortune more or less the same as the above, with interpretation flavored by a card draw . The original edition contained the Fortune deck of thirty six cards, used for divination and action resolution, as well as ninety Vision cards used as source materi ... more details
In data networking and transmission, 64b 66b is a line code that transforms 64 bit data to 66 bit line code to provide enough state changes to allow reasonable clock recovery and facilitate alignment of the data stream at the receiver. The overhead of the 64b 66b encoding is 3.125 , which is considerably less than the more common 8b 10b encoding scheme which has a 25 overhead. At the time 64b 66b was deployed, it allowed 10Gb Ethernet to be transmitted with the same lasers used by SONET OC 192, rather than requiring 12.5 Gb s lasers which were not expected to available for several years. Function As the scheme name suggests, 64 bit s of data are transmitted as a 66 bit entity. The 66 bit entity is made by prefixing one of two possible two bit preambles to the 64 bits to be transmitted. If the preamble is 01 , the 64 bits are entirely data If the preamble is 10 , an eight bit type field follows, plus 56 bits of control information and or data The preambles 00 and 11 are not used, and generate an error if seen. The use of the 01 and 10 preambles guarantees a bit transition every 66 bits, which means that a continuous stream of 0s or 1s cannot be valid data. It also allows easier clock timer synchronization, as a transition must be seen every 66 bits. The complete payload consisting of either 64 data bits, or 56 data bits type byte are then scrambled using a self synchronous scrambler randomizer scrambler function, with the intention of ensuring that a relatively even distribution of 1s and 0s are normally found in the transmitted data. The intention is not to encrypt the data, but to give the transmitted data useful engineering properties. The scrambler does not provide an absolute guarantee that output data will never have a long run length of 0s or all 1s or other undesirable properties, but instead allows strong statistical bounds to be put on the probability of such events. Practical designs will choose system parameters such that a bit error due to long run lengt ... more details
infobox television show name Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich format Game show runtime 22 minutes creator presenter David McCreary narrated country United States network broadcast syndication Syndicated picture format NTSC first aired October 7, 2006 last aired September 29, 2007 num episodes 52 Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich was an Ohio Lottery TV game show , produced in Columbus, Ohio Columbus and broadcast on twelve television stations in Ohio. It debuted on October 7, 2006 and ran until September 29, 2007, replacing for that period of time the Ohio Lottery s Cash Explosion Double Play series. Eligibility For a chance to appear on the show, a player aged 18 years or older had to have bought a special Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich scratchcard instant ticket for the show. These were available in two formats a standard single game ticket costing 1 to play, or a larger 2 ticket with a second, separate gameboard. These tickets replaced the Cash Explosion scratchers for the duration of the series. All remaining Cash Explosion ENTRY winners sent in within 180 days of that game s official withdrawal were also eligible for the new show. On either the 1 or 2 ticket, matching three special symbols qualified the player for an appearance on the game show, once the ticket was mailed to the address provided. Of all valid entry tickets received, 30 of them were randomly selected to appear as contestants on the show. If a contestant played on a 2 ticket instead of a 1 ticket, they became an Extended Play contestant and were entitled to special bonuses throughout the show see below . Format Semi final Game Five teams of three competed. One team was randomly picked, and the three players voted on whether they wanted the amount on the Safe table or Risk table, with majority ruling. Each table had 20 amounts the Safe table had lower cash values, whereas the Risk table had higher values but also values worth nothing. The players then started a randomizer, which spun up two values, one from e ... more details
Bonus Bonanza was the official state lottery game show of Massachusetts, running from 1995 to 1998. It was hosted by Brian Tracey and Dawn Hayes. The show was produced by Jonathan Goodson Productions , and all of its games and its theme were virtually identical to the Illinois state lottery game show Illinois Instant Riches later Illinois Luckiest . Summary of Rules All audience members wore name tags a la The Price is Right but only those that earned their way on to the show by means of a Massachusetts lottery ticket were chosen to be in the contestant s pool. Hayes would spin a wheel that was hooked to a randomizer. When the wheel stopped, whoever s face the spotlight shined on got to play a mini game, in addition to winning a set of lottery tickets. There were a total of five mini games available, but only three of the mini games were played on a given show, and all three contestants involved got to play the bonus game for a possible 200,000 as opposed to 100,000 from Illinois Instant Riches the prize doubled to 200,000 when the bonus game Pot O Gold was introduced . Mini Games Vortex Contestants were shown 7 balls, 5 yellow and 2 red, arranged in a line. When released, the balls so that the balls spun around a funnel like table and ended up in the center in a daisy like pattern one ball surrounded by the other six . The object was to have a yellow ball in the center. The contestant was originally spotted 5,000 later reduced to 3,000 and asked to pull a lever that released the balls down the table and into the daisy pattern. For the first pull, their money doubled if the center ball was yellow. For the second pull, one of the yellow balls was replaced with a red ball, and their money tripled if the center ball was yellow. They didn t lose anything if a red ball came up in the center for these first two pulls. The contestant could then stop with their winnings, or opt for a third pull after another yellow ball was replaced by a red ball. For this final pull, they ... more details
games listed above, the Mega Drive Genesis version features a music test mode, and a randomizer option. If selected from the main menu, the randomizer will randomly choose and start one game from ... more details
Certain presents contain harmful power ups, such the loss of a life , or the randomizer , which ... open more presents, the chances of accidentally opening the randomizer are increased, which ... more details
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