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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". (Full article...)
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- 1341 – The Byzantine army proclaimed chief minister John VI Kantakouzenos emperor, triggering a civil war between his supporters and those of John V Palaiologos, the heir to the throne.
- 1892 – Ida B. Wells (pictured) began to publish her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2020.
- 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.
- 1955 – The first buildings in the sacred Oyasato-yakata complex of the Japanese new religious movement Tenrikyo in Tenri, Nara, were completed.
- 1977 – Somali hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms of smallpox, becoming the last person known to be naturally infected by the disease.
- Cuthbert of Canterbury (d. 760)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (d. 1902)
- Yamashita Yoshitsugu (d. 1935)
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Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University. Photograph credit: NIH History Office; restored by Bammesk
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