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Frets on Fire (FoF) is a free, open-source Finnish music video game created by Unreal Voodoo. Players use the keyboard to play along with markers which appear on screen, with the aim to score points, achieve a high point multiplier, and complete a song.Frets on Fire was the winner of the Assembly 2006 game development competition.
The game is written in the Python programming language, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License, although the game incorporates other free and open-source code under other licenses. The game's included song files and some internal fonts are proprietary, and their redistribution is not permitted outside of the Frets On Fire executable.
Frets on Fire is a video game that imitates the commercial game Guitar Hero. It is playable on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. The player presses buttons in time to coloured markers, which appear on-screen, the markers are matched with the rhythm of the music. Frets on Fire can be played by using a keyboard by pressing the fret buttons and pick buttons, although there is support for joysticks, meaning that with the appropriate adapter and/or software, various guitar-type controllers can be used as well.
NBA Jam is a basketball arcade game published and developed by Midway in 1993. It is the first entry in the NBA Jam series. The main designer and programmer for this game was Mark Turmell. Midway had previously released such sports games as Arch Rivals in 1989, High Impact in 1990, and Super High Impact in 1991. The gameplay of NBA Jam is based on Arch Rivals, another 2-on-2 basketball video game. However, it was the release of NBA Jam that brought mainstream success to the genre.
The game became exceptionally popular, and generated a significant amount of money for arcades after its release, creating revenue of $1 billion in quarters. In early 1994, the Amusement & Music Operators Association reported that NBA Jam had become the highest-earning arcade game of all time.
The release of NBA Jam gave rise to a new genre of sports games which were based around fast, action-packed gameplay and exaggerated realism, a formula which Midway would also later apply to the sports of football (NFL Blitz), and hockey (2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge).
We pray, say grace, we hope and lay awake.
We pray like slaves to men who only care for their own sake.
We burn, ourselves, with every candle lit.
We turn our water not into wine but into shit.
The light shines only from above, to feed the world, enrich the poor, isn't that it what it once started for.
The streets of life are paved with gold, if we are giving them control of hell, the devil and how to sell our souls.
We tell, ourselves, our lives were overthrown.
We sell our souls to anyone who cares to hear us moan.
We raise, our hands, from salvage from the sky.
We quench our thirst until the well runs dry.
Yeah, we know where we belong.
We smile and sing along, the sounds are saturated with an overdose of wrong.
We might never make it home, if we go out alone, the world is blessed with crooks who try to steal our souls.
Yeah, we know where we belong.