Radical Dreamers is a Japanese video game produced by Square (now Square Enix) in 1996 for the Nintendo Super Famicom's Satellaview add-on. It is a text-based visual novel in which the player takes the role of Serge, a young adventurer accompanied by Kid, a teen-aged thief, and Gil, a masked magician. The game is a gaiden, or side story, to the 1995 game Chrono Trigger in the Chrono series, and later served as inspiration for Chrono Cross. It features text-based gameplay with minimal graphics and sound effects, and was scored by composer Yasunori Mitsuda. Unlike many Satellaview titles, Radical Dreamers was not designed to lock after a certain number of play-throughs, so players owning an 8M Memory Pack onto which the game was downloaded can still play today. Square tried to integrate Radical Dreamers into the Japanese PlayStation port of Chrono Trigger as an Easter egg, but writer and director Masato Kato halted this and other releases, unhappy with the quality of his work. Though the game was never officially released abroad, ROM hackers completed an English fan translation in 2003.
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1207:
Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, was established as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Mariana
1709:
Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued by English captain Woodes Rogers and the crew of the Duke after spending four years as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Juan Fernández archipelago, providing the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodes_Rogers
1922:
The novel Ulysses was first published in its entirety after this material by author James Joyce first appeared in serialized parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, becoming one of the most important works of modernist literature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)
1974:
The F-16 Fighting Falcon, one of the best-selling jet fighters ever built, made its first flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon
2009:
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe devalued the Zimbabwean dollar for the third and final time, making Z$1 trillion now only Z$1 of the new currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar
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twang: 1. To produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go. 2. To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twang
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