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Shigeru Miyamoto

Super Mario All-Stars is a 1993 compilation of platform games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It contains remakes of Nintendo's four Super Mario titles released for the Nintendo Entertainment System and its Family Computer Disk System add-on: Super Mario Bros. (1985), Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (1986), Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988), and Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988). They are faithful recreations that adapt the games' original premises and level designs with updated graphics and music. Parallax scrolling was added, physics simulations were modified, and some glitches were fixed. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto (pictured) suggested that Nintendo develop the compilation. It received critical acclaim and is one of the bestselling Super Mario titles, with 10.55 million copies sold by 2015. Reviewers praised the effort that went into remastering the compilation's games and appreciated the updated graphics and music, but criticized its lack of innovation. (Full article...)

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September 13: Feast day of Saint John Chrysostom (Western Christianity)

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1759 – Seven Years' War: British forces won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, New France, despite General James Wolfe being mortally wounded.
1848 – An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman Phineas Gage (pictured holding rod), making him an important early case of personality change after brain injury.
1964 – South Vietnamese generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức staged a coup attempt after being demoted by junta leader Nguyễn Khánh.
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Nogi Maresuke (25 December 1849 – 13 September 1912) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a governor-general of Taiwan. His career included action in the Satsuma Rebellion and the First Sino-Japanese War. He was recalled to active service in the Russo-Japanese War, and made a report directly to Emperor Meiji during a Gozen Kaigi at the end of the war. When explaining battles during the Siege of Port Arthur in detail, he broke down and wept, apologizing for the 56,000 lives lost in the campaign and asking to be allowed to kill himself in atonement. The emperor told him that suicide was unacceptable, as all responsibility for the war was due to imperial orders, and that Nogi must remain alive, at least as long as he himself lived. Emperor Meiji died in 1912, and Nogi and his wife Shizuko committed suicide shortly after the funeral cortège left the palace.

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