Pathways into Darkness is a first-person adventure video game developed
and published by Bungie Software Products Corporation (now Bungie) in
1993, exclusively for Apple Macintosh personal computers. Players
assume the role of a Special Forces soldier who must stop a powerful,
godlike being from awakening and destroying the world. Players solve
puzzles and defeat enemies to unlock parts of a pyramid where the god
sleeps; the game's ending changes depending on player actions. Pathways
began as a sequel to Bungie's Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete, before
the developers created an original story. Jason Jones programmed the
game, while his friend Colin Brent developed the environments and
creatures. The game features three-dimensional texture mapped graphics
and stereo sound on supported Macintosh models. Pathways was critically
acclaimed and won a host of awards; it was also Bungie's first major
commercial success, enabling the two-man team of Jason Jones and Alex
Seropian to move into a Chicago office and begin paying staff.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1488:
Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias landed in Mossel Bay, becoming the
first known European to have sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and
the southern tip of Africa.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeu_Dias>
1781:
American Revolutionary War: British forces captured the Dutch island of
Sint Eustatius with only two shots fired.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Sint_Eustatius>
1813:
Argentine War of Independence: José de San Martín and his Regiment of
Mounted Grenadiers gained a largely symbolic victory against a royalist
army in the Battle of San Lorenzo .
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Lorenzo>
1967:
Ronald Ryan became the last person to be legally executed in Australia,
sparking public protests across the country.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Ryan>
1998:
A United States Air Force EA-6B Prowler inadvertently severed a cable
supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway in Cavalese, Italy, sending
20 people plummeting to their deaths.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_%281998%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dystopia (n):
1. A vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond
recognition) utopian society.
2. A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor
standard of living.
3. (medicine) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dystopia>
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