Jumping Flash! is a platform video game co-developed by Exact and Ultra and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The first instalment in the Jumping Flash! series, it was released in April 1995 for the PlayStation in Japan and later the same year in Europe and North America; it was re-released through the PlayStation Network store on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable in 2007. Presented in a first- person perspective, the game follows a robotic rabbit named Robbit as he searches for missing jet pods that have been scattered by the game's antagonist character, the astrophysicist Baron Aloha. The game has been described as an early showcase for 3D graphics in console gaming. Generally well received by critics, who praised its graphics and unique gameplay, it was later overshadowed by 3D platformers of the fifth console generation. It was described as the third-most underrated video game of all time by Matt Casamassina of IGN in 2007, and holds the Guinness World Record as the "First platform video game in true 3D".
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1282:
Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Vespers
1842:
American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_Long
1899:
A committee of the German Society of Chemistry invited other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to form the International Committee on Atomic Weights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Isotopic_Abundances_and_Atomic_Weights
1950:
Usmar Ismail began filming Darah dan Doa, formally recognised as the first Indonesian film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darah_dan_Doa
1972:
Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces began the Easter Offensive in an attempt to gain as much territory and destroy as many units of the South Vietnamese Army as possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Offensive
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sewer: 1. (now historical) A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc. […] 2. One who sews. 3. A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sewer
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