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First Association football videogame

what was the First Association football videogame?--79.32.198.71 (talk) 11:44, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

According to this book (Encyclopaedia of Video Games M-Z, Mark J P Wolf, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, 2012) a game called "World Cup Football" was released in 1974, although I've not yet been able to find out anything more about it (and Wolf doesn't give any details). The earliest game on which we have an article is NASL Soccer (1979). Tevildo (talk) 16:54, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

There was a World Cup Football for the Spectrum in 1984. Perhaps Wolf made (or read) a typo. Incidentally, 1974 in video gaming says that year saw the first allegedly human characters, in a basketball game. InedibleHulk (talk) 23:28, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

The Magnavox Odyssey (1972) had a game called "Soccer" as one of its titles, although this was just a variant of "Pong" and not really a "football videogame" by any reasonable definition. Tevildo (talk) 23:47, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Another English translation of Les Misérables the musical

Is there another singable English translation of Les Misérables the musical besides that of Herbert Kretzmer? Czech is Cyrillized (talk) 12:46, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Another? Herbert Kretzmer wrote the English lyrics; he didn't really "translate" them from the French version.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:07, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Choices for melodies

Look at the melody in this URL:

http://op-it-solution.blogspot.com/2013/09/old-old-shack.html#.WCZTLPkrLIU

This melody has 8 measures. Play the whole melody as it is and describe the role measure #4 (lyrics: Fly right back, notes A-A-F-C) plays in the music form.

Now play it again, leaving measures 1-3 and 5-8 the same but changing the notes of measure 4 to E-E-C-C (all using notes near the bottom of the staff) and again describe the role the measure plays in the music form.

Can anyone describe the difference in the melody's form?? Please focus on the use of tonic vs. dominant as the chord to use when the melody is just under halfway complete, just as I'm asking you to do with this piece. Georgia guy (talk) 23:31, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Sounds a tad like a homework question, which you should be able to answer by studying Cadence (music). What sorts of cadence use the tonic in this position and what sorts of cadence use the dominant? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 16:01, 13 November 2016 (UTC)