Sentences with phrase «popular as legend»

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It was a wildly popular sytem in its day, like the NES and SNES, and served as the launching pad for some iconic games, including Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and GoldenEye 007.

Years ago, I worked as a waitress at a popular independent brew pub with an origin story that was the stuff of local legend.

You might know Seth Godin as a sort of marketing legend, the author of books such as Unleashing the Ideavirus, «the most popular e-book ever published,» according to his marketing materials (I have no idea how I'd check that), and Purple Cow, «the best - selling marketing book of the decade» (similar caveat).

Velloso says his team is working with companies such as Riot Games, the Tencent (tcehy)- owned developer behind the most popular eSports game in the world, League of Legends.

In the world of popular music, one generally becomes a «legend» only in death — as if death accomplishes for a musician all that he was unable to do for himself in life.

And yet we find ourselves in the strongest agreement with the German scholar, Professor von Rad, whom we have cited before, in his own expressed feeling that after all, legend is not an adequate term, so long as it is commonly understood simply as a mixture of history and unrestrained popular imagination (one part history, nine parts imagination — our comment, not his) We much better understand legend as a combination of history and meditation, and as motivated primarily by a concern to give expression to the meaning of history, as that meaning is conveyed by the faith that God makes himself known therein.12

A popular urban legend identifies a Native American chef named George Crum as the first American to serve potato chips to a restaurant customer at a resort in Sarasota Springs, New York.

Popular Farm - to - Table Burger Concept Enlists Country Singing Legend As The Voice Of Their Farm Fresh TV Ad Campaign

According to the Daily Mail, Arsenal could be a considering what would undoubtedly be a very popular decision to appoint club legend Patrick Vieira as Wenger's successor, with his old boss said to potentially be set to step down rather than be sacked at the end of the season.

Popular unit Bet365 have announced they have a live feed of all the action from Flushing Meadows tonight, as these two tennis legends meet up in the final once more — and you don't have to miss a single point!

It seems that the TV heavyweight is grooming Chelsea captain John Terry to replace the popular Manchester United legend, who left his position with the company to take over as manager of Valencia.

Lorcan is a name that is rich in myth and legend and also associated with the ever popular Harry Potter series as one of the twin sons of Luna Lovegood Scamander.

The wide grip chins are not as popular exercise today, as it was in the time of Ric Drasin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ken Waller and the other legends.

Legend has it, Chanel borrowed one from her lover and tailored it to her body — creating an iconic look that is still just as popular today.

My guess is that the scarcity is probably due to Fire Emblem not being as popular or widespread as The Legend of Zelda.

Anticipating that its popularity could lead to a scene as lucrative and popular as established games like League Of Legends and Counter-Strike, several major esports organizations have started assembling professional teams of their own, although there have yet to be any major matches so far.

Software-wise, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and 1 -2-Switch were the two most popular titles, with titles such as Super Bomberman R also gaining traction.

While perhaps not quite as popular as Blizzard's Hearthstone, Bethesda's card battle, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, has quietly been plugging away.

Following a nationwide search for the UK's top student, Bethan Gill of Samuel Cody Specialist Sports College in Farnborough, Hampshire, was named as the Student of the Year live on air in a special edition of Sky's popular Game Changers show; and an overcome Bethan was congratulated by David, Jessica, Olympic sprint legend Darren Campbell, Game Changers» Di Dougherty as well as a host of Athlete Mentors.

Other popular Honda vehicles are the CR - V (one of the first compact crossovers), the Accord midsize sedan (particularly successful in the United States), the Fit subcompact (sold as the Jazz in Europe), and the Legend full - size sedan.

Other mysterious stories were also popular and Washington Irving's tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) will be know to many following its recent adaptation as a film starring Johnny Depp and the even more contemporary television series.

Those familiar with Lu's wildly popular Legend series will recognize the author's propensity to include multiple perspectives, and here those viewpoints include other members of the Young Elites and their rebel leader, as well as the queen's Inquisitor, who is hunting them all.

Fantasy and Sci - Fi legend Piers Anthony is part of this group, as are Stephen King, Stephen Covey (the 7 Habits guy) and JA Konrath (author of the very popular Jack Daniels series of crime novels).

History and Facts: Named after the region formerly known as Yugoslavia, popular legend has it that this breed was originally from Egypt and was later brought to Europe by the Phoenicians around 1000 B.C..

Stand up paddle boarding was made popular by surf legend Laird Hamilton as a way to stay in shape when the surf was «flat.»

Every Sofitel Legend property boasts its own iconic hotel bar — a stylish venue as popular with the local community as it is with guests.

On this beach lies a large pot of rock and an old kitchen belongs to Kebo Iwa as mentioned in the popular local legend.

Its portfolio comprises internationally acclaimed luxury brands including Raffles, Sofitel Legend, SO Sofitel, Sofitel, Fairmont, onefinestay, MGallery by Sofitel, Pullman, and Swissôtel; as well as the popular midscale and boutique brands of 25hours, Novotel, Mercure, Mama Shelter and Adagio; the much - prized economy brands including JO&JOE, ibis, ibis Styles, ibis budget and the regional brands Grand Mercure, The Sebel and hotelF1.

Nearby are the popular golf course Aphrodite Hills, Secret Valley and Elea, as well as the island's famous landmark Petra to Romiou (Aphrodite's Rock), which according to ancient legend, emerged from the sea foam the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite.

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, the latest version of the popular video game, comes complete with a mock Gibson guitar as its controller and more than 70 songs - with more available to download.

Blood on the Sand is perhaps on of the most popular titles that Vivendi decided not to keep along with Ghostbusters and Brutal Legend, all of which have no publisher as of yet.

Japanese gamers are enjoying the latest installments of popular franchises, such as DYNASTY WARRIORS 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition, FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn and Ryu - ga - gotoku Ishin!.

The tactic is not an original one — The delayed release of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in 2006 for both GameCube and Wii allowed the game to serve as a swansong for the less popular older console as well as a blockbuster launch title for the Wii.

For the past few years though, the main Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors «Musou» franchises have taken a back seat in the wake of spin - off entries into the series that feature other popular franchises such as Zelda, Mobile Suit Gundam, Fist of the North Star, One Piece, The Heroic Legend of Arslan, and, most recently, Berserk with Berserk and the Band of the Hawk.

In the early 2000s, the Japanese government started to evaluate the value of the country's popular culture industry following international successes in anime / manga such as Pokémon and Dragonball, videogames like Nintendo's Legend of Zelda and Super Mario series, and films including Spirited Away (2001) and Ringu (1998).

League of Legends reportedly makes over $ 1 billion every year off of the sale of cosmetics such as character skins; skins that are made even more popular by esports pros.

As the second most lucrative league in terms of prize money, and arguably one of the most popular games ever, League of Legends is truly the Super Bowl of the eSports world.

While anticipation has been building up for the console, Nintendo has barely said anything about it, only announcing that some games (such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) will be coming up for it, and some of Nintendo's more popular games would be ported over to it.

That's not all, you'll also get to pit your skills against your favourite cosplayers in popular games such as Monster Hunter, League of Legends and more in our cosPLAY zone.

League of Legends has had remarkable staying power as one of the most popular games in esports for a couple simple reasons.

At its core, Rayman Legends is a 2D arcade platformer with modern gaming mechanics as our popular Ubisoft hero returns to rescue all the Teensies who have been abducted by a nefarious evil.

Tencent has a history of supporting new game genres in China, where it operates globally renowned titles such as League of Legends, Cross-Fire, Dungeon & Fighter, Call of Duty Online, FIFA Online and Need for Speed, as well as many popular locally - developed games.

As we all know, those aren't the only genres available — other popular genres in terms of game releases are the likes of MOBAs, with Leauge of Legends and DOTA 2 dominating.

Coordinating a battle plan has a feel similar to popular MOBA games like DOTA and League of Legends, as players shift around to cover different paths.

He had decided to work for Riot Games instead, as senior game designer for League of Legends, the massively popular MOBA.

Currently in development for PC by Kaze Emanuar, the modder behind the popular Super Mario 64 Online mod, Super Zelda 64: Ocarina of Time inserts the world of Hyrule, as it was in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, into Super Mario 64.

Character design is a joint collaboration between Yuu Yamashita who has worked on the Sword Art Online anime and Makoto Tsuchibayashi who is an extremely popular character designer having created Dante in the Devil May Cry series and having worked on such games as Mega Man Legends, therefore such a collaboration has created excellent character design which has the appropriate amount of variation for ally and enemy characters.

The packs will also allow players to equip hunters and Felynes with special themed collaboration costumes and weapons based on popular series such as Fire Emblem, The Legend of Zelda, Okami and more.

聖剣伝説 Legend of Mana, a PlayStation release from 2000 known simply as Legend of Mana in English, is undoubtedly the third most popular release, despite being very different from its predecessors, and 新約 聖剣伝説 (Shin» yaku Seiken Densetsu) or Sword of Mana on the Gameboy Advance would return to series roots in 2003, itself a remake of the very first game in the franchise, 聖剣伝説 ～ ファイナルファンタジー外伝 ～ (Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden), a Game Boy title released in North America as Final Fantasy Adventure in 1991, though the franchise would immediately and permanently split in virtually all regards from Final Fantasy.

Arslan's exploits extend from an ancient Persian folk - tale Amir Arslan, which has been reborn several times over in popular Japanese novels, mangas, and anime typically referred to as the Heroic Legend of Arslan.