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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>