Star Wars: Rogue Squadron is an arcade-style action game co-developed
by Factor 5 and LucasArts. The first of three games in the Rogue
Squadron series, it was published by LucasArts and Nintendo and
released for Windows and the Nintendo 64 in December 1998. Rogue
Squadron was one of the first games to take advantage of the Nintendo
64's Expansion Pak, which allows gameplay at a 640 × 480 display
resolution, instead of that system's standard 320 × 240 resolution. Set
in the fictional Star Wars galaxy and inspired by the Star Wars: X-wing
Rogue Squadron comics, the game takes place primarily between events in
the films Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
The player controls Luke Skywalker, commander of the elite X-wing
pilots known as Rogue Squadron. As the game progresses, Skywalker and
Rogue Squadron fight the Galactic Empire in sixteen missions across
various planets. Rogue Squadron received generally positive reviews.
Critics praised the game's technical achievements and flight controls,
but its use of distance fog and the lack of a multiplayer mode drew
criticism.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1264:
Second Barons' War: King Henry III was defeated at the Battle of Lewes
and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de
facto ruler of England.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_of_Lewes>
1607:
An expedition led by Edward Maria Wingfield, Christopher Newport, and
John Smith established the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, the first
permanent English settlement in North America.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_Settlement>
1940:
The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber had its first
flight.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yermolayev_Yer-2>
1943:
World War II: The Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and
sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268
people aboard.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AHS_Centaur>
1948:
David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence
at the present-day Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, officially
establishing a new Jewish state in parts of the former British Mandate
of Palestine.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Declaration_of_Independence>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gubernatorial (adj):
Of or pertaining to a governor
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gubernatorial>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Union and co-operation in war obviously increase the power of the
individual a thousand fold. Is there the shadow of a reason why they
should not produce equal effects in peace; why the principle of
co-operation should not give to men the same superior powers, and
advantages, (and much greater) in the creation, preservation,
distribution and enjoyment of wealth?
--Robert Owen
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Owen>