The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is a 1993 action-adventure video
game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and
published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. It is the fourth installment in
the Legend of Zelda series, and the first for a handheld game console.
What became Link's Awakening began as a port of the Super Nintendo title
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, developed after-hours by
Nintendo staff. It grew into an original project under the direction of
Takashi Tezuka, with a story and script created by Yoshiaki Koizumi and
Kensuke Tanabe. The protagonist Link begins the game stranded on
Koholint Island, a place guarded by a creature called the Wind Fish.
Link then searches for eight musical instruments that will awaken the
sleeping Wind Fish and allow him to escape. A remake called The Legend
of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX was released for the Game Boy Color in
1998; it features color graphics, compatibility with the Game Boy
Printer, and an exclusive color-based dungeon. Together, the two
versions of the game have sold more than six million units worldwide,
and have appeared on multiple game publications' lists of the best games
of all time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Link%27s_Awakening>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1813:
War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near
present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stoney_Creek>
1882:
The Shewa kingdom made big strides towards gaining supremacy
over the Ethiopian Empire by defeating the Gojjam and gaining control of
territories south of the Gibe River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Embabo>
1894:
Colorado Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered his state militia
to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners'
strike.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Creek_miners%27_strike_of_1894>
1982:
A war in Lebanon began when Israeli forces invaded southern
Lebanon to root out members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War>
2004:
During a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament,
President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam announced that Tamil was to be made the
first legally recognised classical language of India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
enfranchise:
To grant the franchise to an entity, generally meaning to grant the
privilege of voting to a person.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enfranchise>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength — and strength
alone.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower>