Panzer Dragoon Saga is a 1998 role-playing video game (RPG) developed by
Team Andromeda and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn. The third in
the Panzer Dragoon series, it replaced the games' rail shooter gameplay
with RPG elements such as random encounters, semi-turn-based battles and
free-roaming exploration. The player controls Edge, a young mercenary
who encounters a mysterious girl from a vanished civilization. The
development was arduous and repeatedly delayed; incorporating the Panzer
Dragoon shooting elements with full 3D computer graphics and voice
acting, both unusual features in RPGs at the time, pushed the Saturn to
its technical limits and strained team relations. Saga is the most
acclaimed Saturn game and is often listed among the greatest games of
all time, earning praise for its story, graphics and combat. It had a
limited release in the West and worldwide sales were poor. It has never
been re-released and English copies sell for hundreds of US dollars.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_Dragoon_Saga>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1863:
American Indian Wars: The U.S. Army led by Patrick Edward
Connor massacred Chief Bear Hunter and Shoshone forces at the Bear River
Massacre in present-day Franklin County, Idaho.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_River_Massacre>
1911:
Mexican Revolution: The Magonista rebellion began when Mexican
Liberal Party troops captured the town of Mexicali.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magonista_rebellion_of_1911>
1959:
The first Melodifestivalen, an annual Swedish music competition
that determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song
Contest, was held in Stockholm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodifestivalen>
2017:
A lone gunman carried out a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec
City, Canada, killing six people and injuring nineteen others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dominical:
1. Of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord.
2. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Lord's Day, Sunday.
3. (historical) Of or pertaining to the ancient system of dominical
letters, used for determining Sundays (particularly Easter Sunday) in
any given year.
4. (figuratively, obsolete) Of printed text: in a large size.
5. (figuratively, obsolete) Red, ruddy.
6. A person who keeps Sunday as a day of rest, but does not regard it as
representing the Sabbath of the Old Testament of the Bible.
7. (Britain, historical) A payment legally due from a parishioner to the
parish, because the parishioner's house was built on land, ownership of
which would have originally obliged the landowner to pay a tithe to the
parish.
8. (obsolete)
9. The Lord's Day; Sunday.
10. Short for dominical letter.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dominical>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
--Edward Abbey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Abbey>