Which game was published first, Villa Paletti or Taj Mahal?
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Villa Paletti Villa Paletti is a board game of physical skill designed by Bill Payne and published in 2001 by Zoch Verlag. Players compete to build the villa highest using columns from lower floors without collapsing the structure.
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Taj Mahal (board game) Taj Mahal is a German-style board game for 3–5 players designed by Reiner Knizia and first published in 2000 by Alea in German.
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Tunnels &amp; Trolls Tunnels & Trolls (abbreviated "T&T") is a fantasy role-playing game designed by Ken St. Andre and first published in 1975 by Flying Buffalo. The second modern role-playing game published, it was written by Ken St. Andre to be a more accessible alternative to "Dungeons & Dragons" and is suitable for solitaire, group, and play-by-mail gameplay.
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Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In (released in Europe as simply Project I.G.I.) is a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Innerloop Studios and released on December 15, 2000 by Eidos Interactive. Upon release the game received mixed reviews due to a number of shortcomings, including poorly programmed A.I., lack of a mid-game save option, and the lack of multiplayer features. However it was praised for its superb sound design and graphics, thanks in part to its use of a proprietary game engine that was previously used in Innerloop's "Joint Strike Fighter".
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Truxton II Truxton II, released in Japan as Tatsujin Ō (達人王 , "Expert King" ) , is a 1992 scrolling shooter developed and published by Toaplan for the arcades. It is the sequel to "Truxton".
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Ice Palace (1985 video game) Ice Palace is an action-adventure game designed by Paul Norris and published by Creative Sparks for the Commodore 64 in 1985. It is unrelated to neither 1984's Commodore 64 game "Ice Palace" by K-Tel International nor to 1988's "Beyond the Ice Palace". The game tells the story of a crown prince's quest to break an evil spell, save his land, and avenge his father. It was mostly well received by critics but failed commercially.
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Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), branded as Taj Hotels Palaces Resorts Safaris, is an international chain of hotels and resorts headquartered at Express Towers, Nariman Point in Mumbai. Incorporated by the founder of the Tata Group, Jamsetji Tata, in the year 1903, the company is a part of the Tata group, one of India's largest business conglomerates. The Taj group employed over 13000 people in the year 2010.
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Alpiner (video game) Alpiner is an action video game designed by Janet Srimushnam for the TI-99/4A computer and published by Texas Instruments in 1982. In the game the player climbs the worlds six highest mountains while avoiding obstacles such as trees, animals and falling rocks or landslides. The mountains in the game are Mount Hood, The Matterhorn, Mount Kenya, Mount McKinley (now known as Denali), Mount Garmo and Mount Everest. The names of the mountains along with their corresponding elevations appear on the main screen.
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Merchant Prince Merchant Prince is a turn-based 4X strategy video game franchise set in the Republic of Venice during the Renaissance. The first "Merchant Prince" was published in 1993; "" in 1995; and "Merchant Prince II" in 2001. All three were developed by Holistic Design (HDI) but had separate publishers. The first two use MS-DOS; the third Windows. All three support up to four players and differ chiefly in their graphics and user interface.
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Lisa J. Steele Lisa J. Steele is a game designer and an attorney.
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Machiavelli (board game) Machiavelli is a strategic board game created by S. Craig Taylor and James B. Wood, and released commercially in 1977 by Battleline Publications, later taken over by Avalon Hill, who are currently owned by Hasbro. Set in Renaissance Italy, the board is controlled by the Republic of Florence, the Republic of Venice, the Duchy of Milan, the Kingdom of Naples, the Papacy, Valois France, Habsburg Austria, and the Ottoman Turks.
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Rawson Stovall Rawson Law Stovall (born January 9, 1972) is a video game producer, and the first nationally syndicated reviewer of video games in the United States. His column first appeared in 1982 in the West Texas newspaper the "Abilene Reporter-News" under the title "Video Beat". The following year, the "San Jose Mercury News" picked up the column and promoted Stovall, eleven years old at the time, as the "Vid Kid". Soon after, Stovall's video game reviews appeared in newspapers across the United States, under the auspices of the Universal Press Syndicate, and Doubleday published "The Vid Kid's Book of Home Video Games" in 1984.Rawson Stovall Interview - Syfygames 2015
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Theatre Europe Theatre Europe is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by Personal Software Services. It was first released in the United Kingdom for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Atari 8-bit home computers in 1985. It was later released in France by ERE Informatique in 1986, and was released in the United States by Datasoft later that year. It was also ported to the Tatung Einstein home computer in 1989, exclusively in the United Kingdom. It is the fifth instalment of the "Strategic Wargames" series.
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Taj Mahal (2008 film) Taj Mahal is a 2008 Indian Kannada romantic drama film directed and written by R. Chandru and starring Ajay Rao and Pooja Gandhi. Produced by T. Shivashankar Reddy, the film is Chandru's directoral debut. The film opened on 25 July 2008, and had a 200-day run in Karanataka. Music director Abhiman Roy was awarded the Best Music Director accolade at the Karnataka State Film Awards for his film score. "Taj Mahal" was one of the most successful Kannada-language films of 2008. It was remade in Telugu under the same title.
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Starglider Starglider is a 3D video game published in 1986 by Rainbird. It was by developed Jez San under his company name Argonaut Software. It is a fast-moving, first-person combat flight simulator, rendered with colourful wireframe vector graphics inspired by San's love of the 1983 Atari coin-op "Star Wars".
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Toy Story Mania! (video game) Toy Story Mania! is a video game published by Disney Interactive Studios and developed by Papaya Studio for the Wii and PC versions and High Voltage Software for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions. The game is based on the Toy Story Midway Mania! attraction located at Disney's California Adventure and Disney's Hollywood Studios, which was inspired by the "Toy Story" movie series produced by Pixar, and features single-player and multi-player shooting-gallery style gameplay. The game was released on August 14, 2009 for iOS, on September 15, 2009 for the Wii console, on April 9, 2010 for PC, and on October 30, 2012 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It was packaged with a Ray Gun peripheral on its European release. The game has also been released as a Plug n Play device in early 2010.
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Naughty Dog Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly known as JAM Software, Inc. before renaming in 1989) is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984 as an independent developer, the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001. Gavin and Rubin produced a sequence of progressively more successful games, including "Rings of Power" and "Way of the Warrior" in the early 1990s. The latter—a very low-budget but still plausible offering—prompted Universal Interactive Studios to sign the duo to a three-title contract and fund the expansion of the company.
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Tiertex Design Studios Tiertex Design Studios (sometimes abbreviated Tiertex Ltd) is an English developer and publisher of video games, known for its focus on developing games for mobile and handheld platforms. The company has been notorious for its poor conversions of popular arcade games to home platforms. Founded in 1987, the company had several branches in Europe.
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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die is a video game reference book first published in October 2010. It consists of a list of video games released between 1970 and 2010, arranged chronologically by release date. Each entry in the list is accompanied by a short essay written by a video game critic, with some entries accompanied by screen shots. It was edited by Tony Mott, longtime editor of "Edge" magazine. The book's preface was written by video game designer Peter Molyneux.
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Taj Mahal (1963 film) Taj Mahal is a 1963 film based on the historical legend of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. As per the legend Shah Jahan created the Taj Mahal in fond remembrance and as a tomb for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.
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Taj Tashi The Taj Tashi is a hotel in Thimphu, Bhutan. Opened in 2008, the hotel is the first five-star hotel in Bhutan. The hotel is a joint venture of local Indian hotel giant, Taj Leisure Hotels and local tashi group. The hotel also hosts a conference space.
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Pocket Gamer Pocket Gamer is a video game website that focuses on handheld video games. The site launched in 2005 and is published by Steel Media. The publication covers all major portable and mobile gaming formats, including iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, PlayStation Vita and the various versions of the Nintendo DS, and was one of the first to cover the iPhone and iPod Touch gaming markets. As well as the website, the publication hands out awards for handheld games to recognize them in several categories. The British newspaper "The Guardian" periodically syndicates a list of recommended mobile video games from "Pocket Gamer" in their own newspaper, especially the list of recommended games for each month.