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.
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Oracle_of_Seasons_and_Oracle_of_Ages>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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