An exception was The Sims Online, an Internet-based game that analysts have touted as crucial to the company.

In elaborate Internet-based games, people pay thousands of dollars to own "real estate" that isn't real at all.

WordWorld has been translated into popular mobile applications, Internet-based games, magnetic plush and other toys.

Internet-based games:

It operates two main businesses: developing Internet-based games and providing text-messaging services for cellphone users in China.

Popex was a free Internet-based game in which players, using virtual money, bought "shares" of musicians and bands, similar to a stock market.

Internet-based games are burgeoning, and some portals are giving them away as Java applets.

It is a construct within an Internet-based game called Anarchy Online.

It has lately resurfaced in the form of an elaborate type of Internet-based game.

Mr. Young, now 31 and living in San Francisco, thinks he has created just such a game: Majestic, an Internet-based game released early this month.