The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages are two 2001 action-adventure games in The Legend of Zelda series, developed by Flagship, a subsidiary of Capcom (head office pictured), and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Color. The player controls the protagonist Link from an overhead perspective as he collects various items hidden in dungeons and guarded by bosses. After experimenting with porting the original Legend of Zelda to the Game Boy Color, the Flagship team, supervised by Yoshiki Okamoto, began developing three interconnected Zelda games that could be played in any order; they later canceled one of the games. Both Seasons and Ages were critical successes, and sold 3.96 million units each. Critics complimented the gameplay, colorful designs and graphic quality, but criticized the inconsistent sound quality. Both games were re-released on the Virtual Console for the Nintendo 3DS in May 2013, and on the Nintendo Switch Online service in July 2023.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1904:

Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala in Milan to poor reviews, forcing him to revise the opera. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_Butterfly

1964:

Gabonese military officers overthrew President Léon M'ba, but French forces, honouring a 1960 treaty, forcibly reinstated him two days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Gabonese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

1974:

A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_White_House_helicopter_incident

2011:

Arab Spring: Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while the "Day of Rage" took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar Gaddafi's government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_civil_war_%282011%29

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

crowbill: 1. (surgery) A kind of forceps for extracting bullets, etc., from wounds. 2. (weaponry, historical) A bec de corbin (“poleaxe with a modified hammerhead and a spike mounted on the top of the pole”). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crowbill

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I want Putin and his entourage, Putin’s friends, his government to know — that they will have to pay for what they’ve done with our country, with my family, and my husband. And that day will come very soon. I want to call on the entire world community, everyone present here, people all over the world — so that we shall all together defeat this evil, defeat the terrifying regime that is currently in Russia. This regime and Vladimir Putin must be held accountable for all the horrors they are doing to my country, to our country — to Russia.   --Yulia Navalnaya https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yulia_Navalnaya