Mischief Makers is a 1997 side-scrolling platform video game, the first
for the Nintendo 64 (pictured), developed by Treasure and published by
Enix and Nintendo. The player assumes the role of Marina, a robot who
grabs, shakes, and throws objects in her journey to rescue her creator
from the planet's emperor. The game is presented in 2.5D, with pre-
rendered 3D backgrounds behind 2D gameplay. A 12-person team developed
the game over two years as Treasure's first title for a Nintendo
console. It was shown at the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo before
its release. Reviews were mixed, with praise for its inventiveness,
personality, and boss fights, but criticism for its brevity, low
difficulty, low replay value, sound, and harsh introductory learning
curve. Retrospective reviewers disagreed with the originally poor
reception, and several highlighted Marina's signature "Shake, shake!"
sound bite. In 2009, GamesRadar called it "possibly the most underrated
and widely ignored game on the N64".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_Makers>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1892:
Ida B. Wells began to publish her research on lynching in the
United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize
in 2020.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells>
1955:
Ngô Đình Diệm proclaimed himself president of the newly
created Republic of Vietnam after defeating former emperor Bảo Đại
in a fraudulent referendum supervised by his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_State_of_Vietnam_referendum>
1955:
The first buildings in the sacred Oyasato-yakata complex of the
Japanese new religious movement Tenrikyo in Tenri, Nara, were completed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyasato-yakata>
1977:
Somali hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms
of smallpox, becoming the last person known to be naturally infected by
the disease.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Maow_Maalin>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
noli me tangere:
1. (Christianity, art) A picture depicting Jesus appearing to Mary
Magdalene shortly after his resurrection from the dead (see the
etymology).
2. A warning to avoid or not to interfere.
3. Someone (such as a disagreeable person) or something (such as a
painful experience or taboo topic) to be avoided or not interfered with.
4. Any of various plants with fruits or seed capsules that, when ripe,
burst open and discharge their seeds when touched, or with leaves that
fold and droop when touched.
5. Some plants of the genus Impatiens; specifically, the touch-me-not
balsam or yellow balsam (Impatiens noli-tangere).
6. The squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).
7. (archaic) The sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica), the leaves of which
fold inwards and droop when shaken or touched.
8. (medicine, obsolete) Any of various diseases causing ulcers of the
skin and underlying tissues, especially of the face; many of these
diseases are now thought to be due to basal cell carcinoma or squamous
cell carcinoma.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noli_me_tangere>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure,
unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no
transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
--Napoleon Hill
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill>
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