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Jeux Sans Frontieres was the European version of It's a Knockout. It started in 1965 and featured teams from different European countries in outlandish costumes (often large latex (foam rubber) suits) competing to complete bizarre tasks in absurd games. Its a Knockout was a popular British television gameshow that ran from 1966 to 1982, featuring teams in outlandish costumes (often large latex (foam rubber) suits) competing to complete bizarre tasks in absurd games. ... The LaTeX logo, typeset with LaTeX LATEX is a document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. ...


The games were umpired by two "international" judges, Gennaro Olivieri and Guido Pancaldi.


Between the span of 1965 and 1999, the show featured 17 countries:

Germany 6 wins
Portugal 5 wins
Great Britain 4 wins
Italy 4 wins
Czech Republic 3 wins (earlier as Czechoslovakia)
France 3 wins
Hungary 3 wins
Belgium 2 wins
Switzerland 2 wins
Spain 1 win
Malta no wins
Greece no wins
Netherlands no wins
San Marino no wins
Slovenia no wins
Tunisia no wins
Yugoslavia no wins

The show inspired Peter Gabriel's 1980 hit single, "Games Without Frontiers," (the direct English translation of the title) in which Kate Bush sings "jeux ... sans frontières" during breaks. Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ... Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel (born February 13, 1950, in Cobham, Surrey, England) is an English musician. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Kate Bush in the music video for her song, Babooshka. Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush on July 30, 1958 in Bexleyheath, London, England and attended St. ...


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BBC NEWS | Technology | Video games without frontiers (624 words)
Games created using these techniques will be less like scenes from a film and more like a reactive and interactive world that players can explore almost endlessly.
Before the game is played, the basic interactions of objects and characters in the world are worked out and some possible ways of working through the story are prepared.
But the possible outcomes, events and interactions are re-written as the game is played by watching what a player is doing, remembering their past actions and working out how these actions change the larger story and the world it is taking place in.
TrustedReviews - Games Without Frontiers (760 words)
Of course, you might be able to open Word slightly faster with a newer hard disk, or even burn CD-Rs quicker with the latest CD-RW drive, but in the most part, general applications are going to run just fine on a system that’s a little out of date.
However, when it comes to games even a six month old machine may start to struggle.
Without the latest graphics card and an equally fast CPU to back it up you could find yourself languishing in the murky depths of either low resolution, or a complete lack of image enhancing features.
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