Lost Luggage is an action video game developed and released in 1982 for the Atari 2600 by the Texas-based studio Games by Apollo. The player controls skycap porters working at an airport and tries to collect pieces of luggage that fall from a frantic overhead luggage carousel. A two-player mode, in which the second player controls the direction the luggage falls, is included. Programmer Ed Salvo was inspired to begin making Lost Luggage when he was waiting for his luggage at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, and the game took around four weeks to make. A four-minute advertising jingle was recorded for the game, but never used. Most reviewers criticized the game's similarity to the Activision game Kaboom!, believing Lost Luggage to be an inferior clone, but a reviewer for the magazine TV Gamer recommended the game for children, and Videogaming Illustrated described the game as the most charming of Apollo's releases. Soon after Lost Luggage 's release, Apollo filed for bankruptcy and closed.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1010:
Persian poet Ferdowsi completed his masterpiece, the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran and related societies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi
1618:
German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler
1919:
During the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, British authorities arrested Saad Zaghloul and two others, exiling them to Malta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_1919
1963:
The Ba'ath Party came to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
2014:
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, prompting the most expensive search in aviation history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
triduan: 1. Lasting three days. 2. Happening every third day. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/triduan
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