Sonic Adventure is a platform game for Sega's Dreamcast. The first main
Sonic the Hedgehog game to feature 3D gameplay, it was produced by Yuji
Naka (pictured) and first released on December 23, 1998. The story
follows Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna,
Amy Rose, Big the Cat, and E-102 Gamma in their quests to stop Doctor
Robotnik from unleashing Chaos, a water-like being. Controlling one of
the six characters, players explore a series of themed levels. Sonic
Team began work on Sonic Adventure in 1997. A 60-member development team
created the game in ten months, drawing inspiration from locations in
Peru and Guatemala. The game received critical acclaim for its visuals
and gameplay. With 2.5 million copies sold by August 2006, it became the
Dreamcast's bestseller. It is recognized as an important release in both
the Sonic series and the platform genre. Sonic Adventure was ported to
other consoles, and in 2001 it was followed by Sonic Adventure 2.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Adventure>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1876:
The Constantinople Conference opened, which resulted in
political reforms in Bosnia and the Ottoman territories with a majority
Bulgarian population.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople_Conference>
1938:
The first living specimen of a coelacanth (example pictured),
long believed to be extinct, was discovered in a South African
fisherman's catch.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth>
1958:
The Tokyo Tower, then the world's tallest freestanding
structure at 332.5 metres (1,091 ft), opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Tower>
2008:
The Guinean military engineered a coup d'état, and announced
that it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new
presidential election.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Guinean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
parse:
1. (transitive, linguistics) To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its
elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation
to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe
grammatically. [from mid 16th c.]
2. (transitive, by extension) To examine closely; to scrutinize.
3. (transitive, by extension, computing) To resolve (a string of code or
text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular
grammar.
4. (transitive, by extension, computing) To split a file or other input
into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
5. (intransitive, computing, linguistics) Of a string of code or text,
sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically
valid.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In the ancient days when gods played their own games, and had
their own celebrations, tossing lightning bolts between mountaintops,
hurling great boulders — Festivus came out of that. It's a holiday
that celebrates being alive at a time when it was hard to be alive.
There was no Christ yet, no Yahweh, no Buddha. There were great ruins
and raw nature. But there was a kindling spark of hope among men. They
celebrated that great thunderous storms hadn't enveloped them in the
past year, that landslides hadn't destroyed them. They made wishes that
there crops would grow in the fields, that they'd have food the next
year and the wild animals wouldn't attack and eat them. There's
something pure about Festivus, something primal, raw in the hearts of
humans.
--Jerry Stiller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jerry_Stiller>