Trials of Mana is a 1995 action role-playing game developed and
published by Square for the Super Famicom. The third installment in the
Mana series, it follows three heroes in a high fantasy world as they
attempt to claim the Mana Sword. The game features three lengthy main
plotlines, a choice of six main characters, and a wide range of
character classes and skills. It was designed by series creator Koichi
Ishii, directed by veteran Square designer Hiromichi Tanaka (pictured),
and produced by Tetsuhisa Tsuruzono, with artwork by Nobuteru Yūki and
music by Hiroki Kikuta. The game was published in Japan, and an English
fan translation appeared in 1999. It was first officially released in
English in a 2017 port for the Nintendo Switch. Trials of Mana received
considerable acclaim from reviewers for its graphics and gameplay, but
some found the characters and plotlines clichéd. In April 2020, a 3D
remake of the same name was released for Nintendo Switch, Microsoft
Windows, and PlayStation 4.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_of_Mana>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1870:
One of the world's earliest underground tube railways opened in
the Tower Subway (interior depicted), a tunnel beneath the River Thames
in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Subway>
1932:
At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist
Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the
discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel
Prize in Physics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron>
2007:
Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret
police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been on the run
following a kidnapping conviction.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Iturriaga>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hello girl:
(telephony, informal, dated) A female telephone operator.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hello_girl>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In the long run, a society's strength depends on the way that
ordinary people voluntarily behave. Ordinary people matter because there
are so many of them. Voluntary behavior matters because it is hard to
supervise everyone all the time. … Successful societies — those
which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on
which they deal with the outside world — succeed because they have
found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good. The
behavior that helps each person will, as a cumulative ethos, help the
society as a whole.
--James Fallows
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Fallows>
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