Turok: Dinosaur Hunter is a first-person shooter video game developed
by Iguana Entertainment and published by Acclaim for the Nintendo 64
console and personal computer platforms. It was released in 1997 in
North America and Europe. Turok is an adaptation of the Acclaim Comics
comic book series of the same name. The player controls a Native
American warrior, Turok, who must stop the evil Campaigner from
conquering the universe with an ancient and powerful weapon. As
Acclaim's first exclusive title for the Nintendo 64, Turok was part of
a strategy to develop games internally and license merchandise; Acclaim
acquired the rights to Turok when it purchased Acclaim Comics (né
Valiant) in 1994. Suffering from cash flow problems and falling sales,
Turok became Acclaim's best hope for a financial turnaround. Iguana
pushed the Nintendo 64's graphics capabilities to its limits, and were
forced to compress or cut elements to fit the game on its 8-megabyte
cartridge. Bugs delayed the game's release from holiday 1996 to 1997.
Critical reception of Turok was highly positive. Becoming one of the
most popular games for the console on release, Turok won praise for its
graphics and evolution of the genre. Complaints centered on graphical
slowdowns caused by multiple enemies appearing onscreen and
occasionally awkward controls. The game sold 1.5 million copies and
boosted sales of the Nintendo 64. Turok spawned a video game franchise
that currently includes six sequels.
Read the rest of this article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turok%3A_Dinosaur_Hunter>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1742:
Messiah, an oratorio by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel ,
premiered in Dublin.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_%28Handel%29>
1873:
In the wake of a disputed election for local offices in Colfax,
Louisiana, US, armed white supremacists overpowered freedmen and the
African American state militia trying to control the parish courthouse,
killing over 100 of them.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre>
1956:
The Vietnamese National Army captured Ba Cut, military commander of the
Hoa Hao religious sect, which ran a de facto state in southern Vietnam
in opposition to Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_Cut>
1984:
Indian forces launched Operation Meghdoot, a preemptive attack on the
disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir, triggering a military
conflict with Pakistan.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siachen_conflict>
1997:
In golf, twenty-one-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to
win the 1997 U.S. Masters, breaking the tournament's record for the
lowest four-round score (270 strokes, 18 under par).
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
pink slime (n):
1. (paper manufacture) An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass
occurring in the slurry used in making paper.
2. (informal) A meat byproduct produced from otherwise unusable
material such as skin and connective tissue, spinal bones, and
digestive tissue by heating and then mixing with ammonia in a
centrifuge to produce a food additive
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pink_slime>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
77px
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find
some bad motive.
--Thomas Jefferson
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>