games

    "The time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted." --
   Bertrand Russell.

   Here are some games-related pages on the Web: <Imperial
   Nomic>,
   <Thoth's games and recreations page>,
   <Games Domain>,
   <Zarf's	List of Games on the Web>,
   <Dave's list of pointers to games resources>,
   <Collaborative Fiction>.

   See also 3DO, ADL, ADVENT, ADVSYS, alpha/beta
   pruning, Amiga, CHIP-8, Core Wars, DROOL, empire,
   I see no X here., Infocom, Inglish, initgame, life,
   minimax, moria, mudhead, multi-user Dimension,
   nethack, ogg, plugh, rogue, SPACEWAR, virtual
   reality, wizard mode, wumpus, xyzzy, ZIL, zorkmid.

   See also game theory.

   (1996-03-03)

Games
   (1.) Of children (Zech. 8:5; Matt. 11:16). The Jewish youth were
   also apparently instructed in the use of the bow and the sling
   (Judg. 20:16; 1 Chr. 12:2).
   
     (2.) Public games, such as were common among the Greeks and
   Romans, were foreign to the Jewish institutions and customs.
   Reference, however, is made to such games in two passages (Ps.
   19:5; Eccl. 9:11).
   
     (3.) Among the Greeks and Romans games entered largely into
   their social life.
   
     (a) Reference in the New Testament is made to gladiatorial
   shows and fights with wild beasts (1 Cor. 15:32). These were
   common among the Romans, and sometimes on a large scale.
   
     (b) Allusion is frequently made to the Grecian gymnastic
   contests (Gal. 2:2; 5:7; Phil. 2:16; 3:14; 1 Tim. 6:12; 2 Tim.
   2:5; Heb. 12:1, 4, 12). These were very numerous. The Olympic,
   Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games were esteemed as of great
   national importance, and the victors at any of these games of
   wrestling, racing, etc., were esteemed as the noblest and the
   happiest of mortals.