Metroid Prime is a video game developed by Retro Studios and Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube, released in North America in 2002 and in Japan and Europe the following year. It is the first 3D game in the Metroid series, the fifth main installment, and is classified by Nintendo as a first-person adventure rather than a first-person shooter, due to the large exploration component of the game and its precedence over combat. Like previous games in the series, Metroid Prime has a science fiction setting, in which players control the bounty hunter Samus Aran. The story follows Samus as she battles the Space Pirates and their biological experiments on the planet Tallon IV. The game was a collaborative effort between Retro's staff in Austin, Texas, and Japanese Nintendo employees, including producer Shigeru Miyamoto, who was the one who suggested the project after visiting Retro's headquarters in 2000. Despite initial backlash from fans due to the first-person perspective, the game was released to both universal acclaim and commercial success, selling more than a million units in North America alone.
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1558:
Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England
1796:
French Revolutionary Wars: French forces defeated the Austrians at the Battle of the Bridge of Arcole in a manoeuvre to cut the latter's line of retreat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bridge_of_Arcole
1855:
Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls (pictured), one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the Zambia–Zimbabwe border. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Falls
1905:
Influenced by the result of the Russo-Japanese War, the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire signed the Eulsa Treaty, effectively depriving Korea of its diplomatic sovereignty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Korea_Treaty_of_1905
1968:
NBC controversially cut away from the American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, denying viewers in the Eastern United States from seeing the game's dramatic ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game
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maraud: 1. (intransitive) To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder. 2. (transitive) To raid and pillage 3. To act aggressively. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maraud
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Miss Goldman is a communist; I am an individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property, I wish to assert it. I make my war upon privilege and authority, whereby the right of property, the true right in that which is proper to the individual, is annihilated. She believes that co-operation would entirely supplant competition; I hold that competition in one form or another will always exist, and that it is highly desirable it should. But whether she or I be right, or both of us be wrong, of one thing I am sure; the spirit which animates Emma Goldman is the only one which will emancipate the slave from his slavery, the tyrant from his tyranny — the spirit which is willing to dare and suffer. --Voltairine de Cleyre https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltairine_de_Cleyre