Killer Instinct Gold is a fighting video game based on the arcade game Killer Instinct 2. It was developed by Rare and initially released on November 25, 1996, by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console. As in other series entries, players press buttons to punch and kick their opponent in chains of successive hits, known as combos. Large combo chains lead to stronger attacks and brutal, stylistic finisher moves. Characters—including a gargoyle, a ninja, and a femme fatale—fight in settings including a jungle and a spaceship. The Gold release lacks the arcade version's full-motion video sequences, but adds a training mode, new camera views, and improved audiovisuals. It was later included in Rare's 2015 Xbox One retrospective compilation, Rare Replay. Reviewers appreciated the game's sound and environment backdrops, but felt that its graphical upgrades and memorization-based combo gameplay were insufficient when compared to fighting games like Tekken 2 and Virtua Fighter 2. Gold ultimately did not replicate the success of its Super NES predecessor, and the series remained dormant through its 2002 acquisition by Microsoft until its 2013 reboot.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1120:
William Adelin, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England, drowned in the White Ship Disaster, leading to eighteen years of civil war, a period later known as the Anarchy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ship
1491:
Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Granada between Castile-Aragon and the Emirate of Granada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada_War
1795:
Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last King of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_August_Poniatowski
1936:
Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing that if the Soviet Union attacked one of them, they would consult each other on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Comintern_Pact
1970:
Failing to instigate a military coup to restore the powers of the Emperor of Japan, author Yukio Mishima publicly committed the ritual suicide seppuku. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
affluenza: A feeling of dissatisfaction, anxiety, etc., caused by the dogged and ongoing pursuit of more goods and possessions. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/affluenza
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. --Lewis Thomas https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Thomas
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