Rare Replay is a compilation of 30 video games by developer Rare and its predecessor, Ultimate Play the Game, released on August 4, 2015. The emulated games span 30 years and multiple genres and consoles, from the ZX Spectrum to the Xbox 360. The compilation adds cheats to make the older games easier and a challenge mode of specific sequences culled from the games. Player progress is rewarded with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews about Rare's major and unreleased games. Rare incorporated six hardware emulators in the package, and used an unannounced Xbox 360 emulation from its parent company, Microsoft. Rare Replay was released worldwide as an Xbox One exclusive to generally favorable reviews. Critics appreciated its archival game content and developer interviews, but faulted technical issues in the Xbox 360 emulation and game installation. Among its games, reviewers preferred Rare's Nintendo 64 classics, especially Blast Corps, but disliked Perfect Dark Zero, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, and the Spectrum titles. Rare Replay became Rare's first United Kingdom all-format charts bestseller since Banjo-Kazooie in 1998.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1265:

Second Barons' War: Royal forces under Prince Edward defeated Baronial forces under Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, at the Battle of Evesham near Evesham, Worcestershire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Evesham

1791:

The signing of the Treaty of Sistova brought an end to the Austro-Turkish War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Turkish_War_(1788%E2%80%9391)

1914:

First World War: Adhering to the terms in the 1839 Treaty of London, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany in response to the latter's invasion of Belgium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_London_(1839)

1992:

Yōhei Kōno, Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan, issued a formal apology for forcing women into sexual slavery during World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women

2007:

Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovered a suitcase containing US$800,000 as it went through an X-ray machine in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as "Maletinazo". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_del_Luj%C3%A1n_Telpuk

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

gee-gee: (colloquial, usually childish) A horse. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gee-gee

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

A declaration is not a government; a creed is not enough. The Founders recognized that there were seeds of anarchy in the idea of individual freedom, an intoxicating danger in the idea of equality, for if everybody is truly free, without the constraints of birth or rank or an inherited social order — if my notion of faith is no better or worse than yours, and my notions of truth and goodness and beauty are as true and good and beautiful as yours — then how can we ever hope to form a society that coheres? Enlightenment thinkers like Hobbes and Locke suggested that free men would form governments as a bargain to ensure that one man's freedom did not become another man's tyranny; that they would sacrifice individual license to better preserve their liberty.   --The Audacity of Hope https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Audacity_of_Hope