Sonic Adventure is a platform game for Sega's Dreamcast. The first main Sonic the Hedgehog game to feature 3D gameplay, it was produced by Yuji Naka (pictured) and first released on December 23, 1998. The story follows Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy Rose, Big the Cat, and E-102 Gamma in their quests to stop Doctor Robotnik from unleashing Chaos, a water-like being. Controlling one of the six characters, players explore a series of themed levels. Sonic Team began work on Sonic Adventure in 1997. A 60-member development team created the game in ten months, drawing inspiration from locations in Peru and Guatemala. The game received critical acclaim for its visuals and gameplay. With 2.5 million copies sold by August 2006, it became the Dreamcast's bestseller. It is recognized as an important release in both the Sonic series and the platform genre. Sonic Adventure was ported to other consoles, and in 2001 it was followed by Sonic Adventure 2.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1876:

The Constantinople Conference opened, which resulted in political reforms in Bosnia and the Ottoman territories with a majority Bulgarian population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople_Conference

1938:

The first living specimen of a coelacanth (example pictured), long believed to be extinct, was discovered in a South African fisherman's catch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth

1958:

The Tokyo Tower, then the world's tallest freestanding structure at 332.5 metres (1,091 ft), opened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Tower

2008:

The Guinean military engineered a coup d'état, and announced that it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new presidential election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Guinean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

parse: 1. (transitive, linguistics) To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. [from mid 16th c.] 2. (transitive, by extension) To examine closely; to scrutinize. 3. (transitive, by extension, computing) To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar. 4. (transitive, by extension, computing) To split a file or other input into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored. 5. (intransitive, computing, linguistics) Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parse

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

In the ancient days when gods played their own games, and had their own celebrations, tossing lightning bolts between mountaintops, hurling great boulders — Festivus came out of that. It's a holiday that celebrates being alive at a time when it was hard to be alive. There was no Christ yet, no Yahweh, no Buddha. There were great ruins and raw nature. But there was a kindling spark of hope among men. They celebrated that great thunderous storms hadn't enveloped them in the past year, that landslides hadn't destroyed them. They made wishes that there crops would grow in the fields, that they'd have food the next year and the wild animals wouldn't attack and eat them. There's something pure about Festivus, something primal, raw in the hearts of humans.   --Jerry Stiller https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jerry_Stiller