Crush is a platformer-puzzle video game developed by Kuju
Entertainment's Zoë Mode studio and published by Sega in 2007 for the
PlayStation Portable. The game's protagonist is Danny, a teenager
suffering from insomnia, who uses an experimental device to explore his
mind and discover the cause for his sleeplessness. Each level of the
game, representing events from Danny's life and inspired by artists
such as Tim Burton and M.C. Escher, requires the player to control
Danny as he collects his "lost marbles" and other thoughts. Crush's
primary gameplay feature involves manipulating each game level between
3D and 2D views, allowing the player to reach platforms and locations
inaccessible from within a different view. This element was noted by
critics to be similar to one in Super Paper Mario, also released in
2007, though the Zoë Mode team had envisioned the concept five years
prior. Crush received positive reviews upon release, with critics
praising Crush's incorporation of this dimension-shifting component
alongside other aspects of the game presentation. Though Crush won
several gaming awards, including PSP game of the month, it failed to
meet the developer's sales expectations.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1331:
Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of the House of Nemanjić was crowned King of
Serbia.
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1504:
David, a marble sculpture by Michelangelo portraying the biblical King
David in the nude, was unveiled in Florence, Italy.
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1541:
Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The combined forces of the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland defeated the larger army of the
Grand Duchy of Moscow in Orsha, present-day Belarus.
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1966:
The American science fiction show Star Trek premiered on the NBC
television network, launching a media franchise that has since created
a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current
technologies.
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1974:
Watergate scandal: U.S. President Gerald Ford gave recently-resigned
U.S. President Richard Nixon a full and unconditional, but
controversial, pardon for any crimes he committed while in office.
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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
In the great hour of
destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
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