the Atari 2600 by the Texas-based studio Games by Apollo. The player
controls skycap porters working at an airport and tries to collect
pieces of luggage that fall from a frantic overhead luggage carousel. A
two-player mode, in which the second player controls the direction the
luggage falls, is included. Programmer Ed Salvo was inspired to begin
making Lost Luggage when he was waiting for his luggage at the
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, and the game took around four
weeks to make. A four-minute advertising jingle was recorded for the
game, but never used. Most reviewers criticized the game's similarity to
the Activision game Kaboom!, believing Lost Luggage to be an inferior
clone, but a reviewer for the magazine TV Gamer recommended the game for
children, and Videogaming Illustrated described the game as the most
charming of Apollo's releases. Soon after Lost Luggage 's release,
Apollo filed for bankruptcy and closed.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Luggage_(video_game)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1010:
Persian poet Ferdowsi completed his masterpiece, the Shahnameh,
the national epic of Iran and related societies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi>
1618:
German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler discovered
the third law of planetary motion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler>
1919:
During the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, British authorities
arrested Saad Zaghloul and two others, exiling them to Malta.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_1919>
1963:
The Ba'ath Party came to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a
clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the
National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2014:
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala
Lumpur to Beijing, prompting the most expensive search in aviation
history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
triduan:
1. Lasting three days.
2. Happening every third day.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/triduan>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr.>
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