Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels is a platform game released on
June 3, 1986, as a sequel to Super Mario Bros. (1985) by Nintendo. It
was designed to be similar in style and gameplay for players who had
mastered the original. Players control Mario or Luigi to jump between
platforms and rescue the Princess from Bowser. It became the most
popular game in Japan for the Famicom Disk System, selling about
2.5 million copies. Deeming it too difficult for North American
audiences, Nintendo of America instead retrofitted another game as the
region's sequel. The Japanese sequel was renamed as The Lost Levels in
the 1993 compilation Super Mario All-Stars, the sequel's first
international release. Reviewers regarded the sequel as an extension of
the original's difficulty progression. The Lost Levels is remembered as
among the most difficult Nintendo games and regarded as a precursor to
the franchise's Kaizo subculture in which fans create and share ROM
hacks featuring nearly impossible levels.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.:_The_Lost_Levels>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1892:
Liverpool F.C. (stadium pictured), one of England's most
successful football clubs, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C.>
1940:
Franz Rademacher, a Nazi official, proposed that the island of
Madagascar be made available as a destination for the resettlement of
the Jewish population of Europe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan>
1963:
Buddhist crisis: South Vietnamese Army soldiers attacked
protesting Buddhists in Huế, with liquid chemicals from tear gas
grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E1%BA%BF_chemical_attacks>
1982:
A failed assassination attempt was made on Shlomo Argov, the
Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom; this was later used as
justification for the First Lebanon War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Argov>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
disport:
(transitive, intransitive, reflexive, dated) To amuse oneself
divertingly or playfully; in particular, to cavort or gambol.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disport>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
According to new data just released by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, guns are the number one killer of children in
the United States of America. The number one killer. More than car
accidents. More than cancer. Over the last two decades, more school-
aged children have died from guns than on-duty police officers and
active-duty military combined. Think about that: more kids than on-duty
cops killed by guns, more kids than soldiers killed by guns. For
God’s sake, how much more are we willing to accept? How many more
innocent American lives must be taken before we say “enough”?
Enough.
--Joe Biden
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Biden>
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