Blast Corps is a 1997 action video game for the Nintendo 64 (pictured). In the game, the player uses vehicles to destroy buildings in the path of a runaway nuclear missile carrier. In the game's 57 levels, the player solves puzzles by moving objects and bridging gaps with the vehicles. Blast Corps was developed at Rare by a small team of recent graduates over the course of a year. They were inspired, in part, by the puzzle elements of Donkey Kong '94. Nintendo published and released Blast Corps to critical acclaim in March 1997 in Japan and North America. Its European and Australian release followed on December 22. The game received several editor's choice awards and Metacritic's second-highest Nintendo 64 rating of 1997. It sold about a million copies, below the team's expectations. Reviewers praised the game's originality, variety, and graphics, but some critiqued its controls and repetition. Reviewers of the 2015 Rare Replay retrospective compilation noted Blast Corps as a standout title.

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1815:

Jane Austen's novel Emma was first published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_%28novel%29

1919:

The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was enacted, lifting most of the existing common-law restrictions on women in the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Disqualification_%28Removal%29_Act_1919

1958:

Tokyo Tower, then the world's tallest freestanding tower, opened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Tower

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