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Mischief Makers is a 1997 side-scrolling platform video game, the first for the Nintendo 64, developed by Treasure and published by Enix and Nintendo. The player assumes the role of Marina, a robotic maid who grabs, shakes and throws objects in her journey to rescue her creator from the emperor of Planet Clancer. 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 first shown at the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo and released later that year. The game's reviews were mixed: they praised its inventiveness, personality, and boss fights, but criticized 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". ( Full article...)
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Did you know...
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 Quentin Tarantino
- ... that Quentin Tarantino (pictured) wrote and directed the 1992 film Reservoir Dogs, which Empire named the "greatest independent film of all time"?
- ... that Max Reger's three sacred motets for up to eight voices, Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 110, were composed in different years at different places for different choirs?
- ... that all the current chiefs of staff (COAS, CNS, CAS) of the Indian Armed Forces are National Defence Academy alumni?
- ... that Adele C. Howells commissioned Arnold Friberg to paint scenes from the Book of Mormon for The Children's Friend magazine?
- ... that Wolkentanz, a leading Hanoverian stallion at the Celle State Stud, sired 21 licensed stallions?
- ... that Antonio Gali's candidacy for Governor of Puebla was supported by the PAN, PT, PANAL, and two state parties?
- ... that 16-year-old hurdler Sydney McLaughlin is the youngest athlete to qualify for the United States Olympic track and field team since 1980?
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 Henrik Stenson
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On this day...
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July 22: Feast day of Mary Magdalene; Pi Approximation Day
- 838 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeated Byzantine Empire troops, led by Emperor Theophilos himself, at the Battle of Anzen near present-day Dazman, Turkey.
- 1894 – Despite finishing in first place in the world's first auto race, Jules-Albert de Dion did not win, as his steam-powered car was against the rules.
- 1950 – Following an indecisive referendum, King Leopold III (pictured), accused of collaboration with Nazi Germany, returned to Belgium, beginning an escalation of the political crisis known as the Royal Question.
- 1991 – American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after police discovered human remains in his apartment.
- 2002 – The Israeli Defense Forces dropped a bomb on the home of Salah Shehade, the leader of the military arm of Hamas, killing him and his family.
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