Radical Dreamers is a Japanese video game produced by Square (now Square
Enix) in 1996 for the Nintendo Super Famicom's Satellaview add-on. It is
a text-based visual novel in which the player takes the role of Serge, a
young adventurer accompanied by Kid, a teen-aged thief, and Gil, a
masked magician. The game is a gaiden, or side story, to the 1995 game
Chrono Trigger in the Chrono series, and later served as inspiration for
Chrono Cross. It features text-based gameplay with minimal graphics and
sound effects, and was scored by composer Yasunori Mitsuda. Unlike many
Satellaview titles, Radical Dreamers was not designed to lock after a
certain number of play-throughs, so players owning an 8M Memory Pack
onto which the game was downloaded can still play today. Square tried to
integrate Radical Dreamers into the Japanese PlayStation port of Chrono
Trigger as an Easter egg, but writer and director Masato Kato halted
this and other releases, unhappy with the quality of his work. Though
the game was never officially released abroad, ROM hackers completed an
English fan translation in 2003.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Dreamers>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1207:
Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, was
established as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Mariana>
1709:
Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued by English
captain Woodes Rogers and the crew of the Duke after spending four years
as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Juan Fernández
archipelago, providing the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson
Crusoe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodes_Rogers>
1922:
The novel Ulysses was first published in its entirety after
this material by author James Joyce first appeared in serialized parts
in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December
1920, becoming one of the most important works of modernist literature.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)>
1974:
The F-16 Fighting Falcon, one of the best-selling jet fighters
ever built, made its first flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon>
2009:
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe devalued the Zimbabwean dollar for
the third and final time, making Z$1 trillion now only Z$1 of the new
currency.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
twang:
1. To produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and
suddenly let go.
2. To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twang>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is something so familiar about this. Do you ever have déjà
vu?
--Groundhog Day
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_(film)>