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Topic: 2000 Games


In the News (Sun 19 May 13)

  
  2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The 2000 Summer Olympics or the Millennium Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games held in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
SOCOG the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, primarily responsible for the staging of the Games
Organisation of the 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of SPOC the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2000_Olympic_Games   (2413 words)

  
 Funagain Games: Indochine-2000
Indochine 2000 uses Klondike as its basic premise, but the first obvious difference is that the game cards are wooden tiles, about the same size as those in Mah Jong.
Having a well-produced game with a high heft factor is very pleasant, but if the game was no good, it would be nothing more than a wooden box on your shelves to show people when they come round to view your collection.
It is simply the kind of game you want to play again and again, and you do unless someone else in the family gets to the game before you.
www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=12197/~affiliate_id=PAGA   (2339 words)

  
 The Green Games 2000 Home Page
The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games - 15 September to 1 October - followed by the Paralympic Games - 18 to 29 October - were dubbed 'the Green Games'.
The organisers of the Sydney 2000 Games were acclaimed for their unprecedented commitment to environmental excellence in planning and staging the events.
The Federal Government was a strong supporter of the aims and ethos of the Green Games and worked with Sydney 2000 to promote their outstanding environmental achievements at the Games, not least the use of innovative environmental technology.
www.deh.gov.au /events/greengames   (748 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 2000 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium.
March 18 - 2000 Taiwanese presidential election: Chen Shui-bian is elected President of the Republic of China.
The May 2000 conjunction consisted of: the Sun and Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
www.hallencyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/2000.html   (2750 words)

  
 kiat.net: Sydney 2000 Games of the XXVIIth Olympiad
kiat.net: Sydney 2000 Games of the XXVIIth Olympiad
On 23 September 1993 in Monaco during the 101st IOC Session, Sydney (Australia) was elected to become the host city of the XXVIIth Olympiad in 2000.
The Games of the XXVIIth Olympiad were officially opened by Sir William Deane, Governor General of Australia.
www.kiat.net /olympics/sydney2000/index.html   (186 words)

  
 Eight Games in 2000 - ESCMAG Features
This is one of those games that you have been looking forward to since the day Blizzard announced the development of the game.
This game has been out for a little over six months, and if you don’t own it yet, then you need to do yourself a favor and pick it up as soon as possible.
The game boasts, without a doubt, some of the best gameplay and graphical elements to be seen on the PC in a long time.
www.escmag.com /features/eightgames.cfm   (990 words)

  
 The Games - Sydney 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia was awarded the Millennium Games on 23 September, 1993 in Monte Carlo.
It was the third of three consecutive bids to be made by an Australian city and was backed by 90% of the Australian population.
There were two primary Olympic zones for the 2000 Olympic Games: the Olympic Park and the Harbour Zone.
www.olympics.org.uk /thegames/past/sydney.asp   (1009 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Sydney 2000 Games were the largest yet, with 10,651 athletes competing in 300 events.
The US softball team won in stirring fashion, losing three games in a row and then coming back to defeat each of the teams they had lost to.
She symbolized the desire to reconcile the white and Aboriginal populations of Australia and was the aborigine medal hopeful.
www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=2000   (254 words)

  
 PlayStation.com - Games & Media - Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
Games like this only come around every four years, and the Olympic committee may not have to bribe you to give this one a chance.
Packed with features, the game will include three modes of play (Olympic, Arcade and Coaching), unique athletes from 32 countries and the greatest number of events to be found in any multi-event sports game ever.
These Game Guides provide exclusive information and the hottest tricks to put you ahead of the game.
www.us.playstation.com /games.aspx?id=slus-01177   (200 words)

  
 Sydney 2000 Games
Commencing with the Bid for Sydney to hold the 2000 Games, this strategy drove the Commonwealth’s involvement in the Games, involving a high level of cooperation with governments and agencies at the state and local level, the organising committees and the private sector.
From July 2000 the Task Force moved to an operational focus and restructured to establish a coordination group in Canberra and to place senior staff in key positions forward in Sydney at the Main Press Centre, the NSW Police Strategic Command Centre, the Protocol Coordination Centre and Sydney Airport.
Implementation of the Games overlay for the airport was given effect by a multi-agency operations centre that operated from early August until the beginning of November 2000.
www.ausport.gov.au /fulltext/2001/pmc/sydney_2000_games.asp   (11567 words)

  
 Games Day 2000
games, but he caught on quickly and seemed to like this light, quick tile laying game.
This also makes the game more strategic as you move and align your armies to their maximum advantage.
That does not seem like a lot of games for about 18 straight hours of gaming, but does there ever seem to be enough games played.
www.io.com /~beckerdo/games/articles/GamesDay2000.html   (1039 words)

  
 Sharky Games - '+$ArtG+' - '+$ArtC+' - '+$ArtN+'
Besides, this is a look at the worst games of this year, not games of the last century with a 3D facelift.
As with the Holiday Games Guide, these eminently avoidable titles are ranked in no particular order because all these games are so bad that they all deserve to sit on the very bottom rung of the games ladder this year and indeed forever.
Of course, with so many terrible games released each year this quick list is hardly going to be exhaustive, but these are some of the more ghastly titles that still send shivers down my spine.
www.sharkygames.com /games/articles/guide/worst_games_2000   (213 words)

  
 Sharky Games - '+$ArtG+' - '+$ArtC+' - '+$ArtN+'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Just for fun, here's a look at those titles that received an Extreme Game award, along with a few that we decided to belatedly give an Extreme Game Award also, simply because, in retrospect, they were excellent enough to deserve it.
Bioware weren't content to churn out a similar experience to the first game though and instead improved on the already excellent Baldur's Gate in countless areas to create one of the best computer RPG experiences yet.
I still can't praise this title highly enough, and the news that a sequel is in the works was one of the best pieces of gaming news for me this year.
www.sharkygames.com /games/articles/extreme_games_2000   (434 words)

  
 Paralaxia Games - Hookworm 2000
Hookworm 2000 is a challenging game where you guide a hookworm across crowded grid.
The object is to try and capture apples that appear on different parts of the game board.
Hookworm 2000 allows you to create multiple user profiles of each person that plays the game.
www.paralaxia.com   (275 words)

  
 Commercial Cricket Games - International Cricket Captain 2000 (PC)
International Cricket Captain 2000 is the third version of the popular PC management game.
Games Paradise changed their database and did not point old links to the new one.
The latest Beta server (which is available to everyone who has bought the game) has now been running fine for well over a week.
www.cricketgames.com /games/commercial/icc2000/index.htm   (1094 words)

  
 Indochine - 2000 game
For Indochine 2000 or any of Xanadu Leisure's other products, there is a Money-Back Guarantee: If you are not delighted, just return the product in its original condition for a free refund (excluding postage and handling).
All Indochine - 2000 games have been manufactured in Thailand by Thai Wooden Games, a company that makes many games and puzzles, including Mah Jongg sets distributed world-wide.
Each INDOCHINE - 2000 game is really solid, with a weight of over two pounds.
www.indochinegame.com /board_games/indochine_2000.htm   (385 words)

  
 Sydney Olympic Games Information
The Official Olympic Post Games Report was published and presented to the IOC President in February 2002 at the Salt Lake City Winter Games.
The spirit of the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games is captured in the Sydney 2000 Games Collection.
As required by the State Records Act 1998 official records of the Sydney 2000 Games agencies sentenced for permanent retention will be transferred to State Records Authority of NSW as State archives.
www.gamesinfo.com.au /home.html   (1023 words)

  
 Free 2000 download: download 2000 game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Since the beginning of 3D Games Age you have never seen such gripping game as this one is! Tetris 5000 will wonder you with outstanding 3D effects.The main peculiarities of Tetpic 5000 are animated themes, which play a role of a game background.
it is composed from 5 games seleted by the game owner in his kingdom, there is four kingdoms to finish the game.
The game goal is to operate the moving worm and to eat apples.
www.gamealbum.com /keyword/2000   (1618 words)

  
 The RPG Maker Link Site - RPG Maker 2000 Games
You've made it to the RPG Maker 2000 game page.
This site has 7 RPG Maker 2000 games, all made by staff members of the site.
This game includes platform styled fighting, underwater travels, automobile usage, two different space battle sims, a plethora of minny games, along with classic rpg styled battles, plenty of riddles and puzzles, hand drawn cut scene animations, all original monsters and battle animations, and much more
www.geocities.com /rpgmlinks/games_2000.html   (429 words)

  
 Playstation Cricket Games - Cricket 2000 (PSX)
Cricket 2000 is available for both PC and Playstation.
Cricket 2000 was released in the UK on Friday, 24 March 2000.
Just to let you know I was in Electronics Boutique on Tuesday enquiring about Cricket 2000 for PSX and they informed me that the release date has been put back to 24th March.
www.cricketgames.com /games/psx/c2000/index.htm   (561 words)

  
 IMG News: 2000 Games: MIA
As the year closes, four games made it onto the list, including Tribes 2 at #10, Warcraft III at #6, Black & White at #3, and Duke Nukem Forever at #2.
While each of the games surely does have good reasons for being delayed, it's a humorous piece and worth a look.
Apple's Mac OS X is listed in the #1 spot as the biggest peice of vaporware this year, but you must remember this is coming from a magazine that declared Linux to be the only OS with a future...
www.insidemacgames.com /news/story.php?ArticleID=1770   (291 words)

  
 2000 Games
The official Canadian Martial Arts Games 2000 will be taking place in Ottawa/Hull on June 23 and 24, 2000.
It is high time for all of us to put aside our differences and work together as a single group to present all of Chinese martial arts to Canada and to the world.
For the Canadian Martial Arts Games 2000, we have put together a new format that is intended to accommodate the richness and diversity in our tradition, and at the same time, reflect the new trends and directions at the world level.
www.cmgc.ca /2000_games.htm   (932 words)

  
 IBM Archives: 2000
IBM introduces the IBM eServer, a new generation of servers featuring mainframe-class reliability and scalability, broad support of open standards for the development of new applications, and capacity on demand for managing the unprecedented needs of e-business.
In building and managing the technology infrastructure for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, IBM turns in a Gold Medal performance.
IBM is awarded the 2000 U.S. National Medal of Technology for the company's record of innovation in storage technology.
www.ibm.com /ibm/history/history/year_2000.html   (419 words)

  
 SC2000 HPC Games
In the spirit of Seymour Cray's vision, this year's HPC Games is thrilled to introduce a new and exciting challenge: The $10K Computer Challenge.
Participants are being asked to build or assemble their own high-performance computing machine (or machines) worth up to $10K, and bring these machines to the SC2000 exhibition floor to compete, running a series of predetermined benchmarks.
The Games add a new twist to the quest for high-performance scientific computing by enforcing a ceiling on the cost of the computer hardware to be used.
www.sc2000.org /games   (834 words)

  
 ESPN.com - EXTREME - ESPN X Games return to San Francisco
The X Games will kick-off with three competitions prior to the main event on the Pier: Skysurfing at the Roche Winery in Sonoma, CA, August 10th-13th, Street Luge at Seal Rock Run on Point Lobos Avenue & The Great Highway, August 11th-13th; and Wakeboarding at Treasure Island's Clipper Cove, August 15th and 16th.
The 2000 X Games will bring more than 350 of the world's best alternative sports athletes to the Bay Area to compete for medals and nearly $1 million in prize money, the industry's largest prize purse.
In conjunction with this summer's X Games, the inaugural Tube Film Festival presented by Adobe, will make its debut August 20th and 21st at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater.
espn.go.com /extreme/000627xgames.html   (547 words)

  
 Events 2000
The final game of the Braingames World Chess Championships took place on Thursday 2nd November and was drawn on move 38.
Games 1 and 4 were drawn, Nigel Short won games 2, 4 and 6.
There were two rapidplay games contested between Alexei Shirov and Viswanathan Anand and attended by FIDE President Kirsan Iljumzhinov and FIDE officials such as David Jarrett, Emmanuel Omuku, Florencio Campomanes, Pawlina and Sedenova.
www.chesscenter.com /twic/even2000.html   (5752 words)

  
 Twilight 2000 - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards
This Halmades on skinning cats: "That does in fact seem to be the general gist of the boards in general, but more importantly, this is the only system I'm familiar with where we can back up all of the arguments with actual mechanics."
I was actually in a fairly regular game the past 2-3 years but about 8 months ago it kind of fell apart do to changing schedules on the players parts.
The system did need some help and the 2nd ed fixed some stuff, but it was still fun to play.
www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=36192   (410 words)

  
 Tyrian 2000 - MobyGames
Tyrian 2000 is a direct rerelease of the original action smash, Tyrian.
It is essentially the same game with an additional new episode (Hazudra Fodder), a revised engine (less bugs and better controls) and added Windows support.
This game, along with unreleased ports of it to the GameBoy Colour and GameBoy Advance, were re-released as freeware August 17th, 2004, by the author, Jason Emery.
www.mobygames.com /game/tyrian-2000   (320 words)

  
 CNNSI.com from CNN and Sports Illustrated
The greatest celebrations of the 2000 Olympic Games were on the medal stands by athletes with names like Ian, Cathy and Marion, but Sydney officially ended the Games with the biggest celebration.
SI's John Walters checks in with his coverage of the coverage of the Sydney Games.
The biggest names and most intriguing stories throughout 100 years of Olympic Games.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2000   (245 words)

  
 Athens Olympics 2004
Fittingly for an Olympic Games that was, more than most, about beginnings and endings, the honour of carrying the Australian flag and leading the team at the closing ceremony was given to veteran swimmer Petria Thomas.
Olympic historian Harry Gordon speaks to Roy Masters about his impression of how the Games will be remembered.
Cornelius Horan, the former Irish Catholic priest who invaded the British Formula One Grand Prix last year, tackled Brazil's Vanderlei de Lima as he led the men's marathon.
www.olympics.smh.com.au   (464 words)

  
 Count On   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Use your cunning and skill to outwit the computer by forcing it to remove the last counter in this game of strategy.
Java othello game with Japanese commentary from the computer.
This classic game will test your mental skills against the clock.
www.mathsyear2000.org /games/index.html   (345 words)

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