Flux
H`erkow Warrior Script
Scion of the Light: 2nd Sighting
Fact of the day...The devs of Metroid (1986) hid Samus Aran's gender from everyone, including Nintendo's own marketing team, so that the helmet-removal reveal at the end would shock players.
Fact of the day...In Final Fantasy Legend II (1990, Game Boy), drug dealers were originally selling opium in the story, but Nintendo's strict U.S. censorship rules forced a change. They became banana peddlers instead. The shady back-alley "drug" trade? Just exotic fruit.
Fact of the day...RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999) was almost entirely coded by one person, Chris Sawyer, and about 99% of it was written in hand-crafted x86 assembly language
Fact of the day...Dell quietly pioneered lithium-ion laptop batteries in 1994. Before that, most portables used heavier, less efficient nickel-cadmium or nickel-metal hydride packs that suffered from "memory effect" and shorter life.
Fact of the day...The first trackball was invented in 1946 for secret British Navy radar to track aircraft, 20+ years before computer mice existed.
