(pictured) and Tommy Refenes and developed by Team Meat. The successor
to the 2008 Flash game Meat Boy, Super Meat Boy was released on the Xbox
360 through Xbox Live Arcade in October 2010 and on Microsoft Windows in
November 2010. It was ported to OS X and Linux in 2011, to the
PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2015, and to the Wii U in 2016. In
the game the player controls Meat Boy, a red, cube-shaped character, as
he attempts to rescue his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from the game's
antagonist Dr. Fetus. The platform gameplay is characterized by fine
control and split-second timing as the player runs and jumps through
over 300 hazardous levels while avoiding obstacles. The game sold over
1,000,000 copies by January 2012, and was critically acclaimed. In 2010,
it received awards for Most Challenging Game from IGN and for Best
Downloadable Game from GameSpot and GameTrailers, as well as a
nomination for the Grand Prize at the 2010 Independent Games Festival.
Critics lauded the game's difficulty, precise control, retro artwork,
and soundtrack.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Meat_Boy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1263:
Scottish–Norwegian War: The armies of Norway and Scotland
fought at the Battle of Largs, an inconclusive engagement near the
present-day town of Largs in North Ayrshire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Largs>
1535:
French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed along the St. Lawrence
River and reached the Iroquois fortified village Hochelaga on the island
now known as Montreal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier>
1941:
World War II: Nazi German forces began Operation Typhoon, an
all-out offensive to begin the three-month long Battle of Moscow.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow>
1996:
A maintenance worker's failure to remove tape covering the
static ports of the aircraft caused Aeroperú Flight 603 to crash into
the ocean near Lima, Peru, due to instrument failure.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroper%C3%BA_Flight_603>
2006:
A gunman killed five Amish girls before committing suicide in a
one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, US.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Nickel_Mines_School_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pareve:
1. (Judaism) Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an
ingredient.
2. (figuratively, by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pareve>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What
does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same
goal. Wherein is the cause for quarrelling?
--Mahatma Gandhi
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi>
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