What day did Balloon Kid's publisher release the new systems?
October 18, 1985
Title: Balloon Kid
Passage: "Balloon Kid" was designed by Yoshio Sakamoto. and developed by Nintendo in co-operation with the external company Pax Softnica. It was first published in North America in February, and finally in Europe on September 28. As such, it is one of the few first-party Nintendo games that were not published in Japan, until Nintendo licensed it to Sanrio's subsidiary Character Soft for reprogramming and publishing it to the Family Computer as "Hello Kitty World" in Japan on March 27, 1992, while "Balloon Kid" was remade for Game Boy Color and released in Japan on July 31, 2000. According to Hitoshi Yamagami, director of "Balloon Fight GB", the Game Boy Color version was developed due to demand for a "Balloon Fight" sequel and that the success of "Game Boy Gallery" ""made them consider making an updated version of "Balloon Kid" for the Japanese market."" Both "Balloon Kid" and "Balloon Fight GB" were later re-released in their original regions as part of the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console lineup; however, the "VS Mode" became incompatible.
Title: Book of Mormon
Passage: Publishers from different factions of the Latter Day Saint movement have published different chapter and verse notation systems. The two most significant are the LDS system, introduced in 1879, and the RLDS system, which is based on the original 1830 chapter divisions.
Title: Okay Hot-Shot, Okay!
Passage: Okay Hot-Shot, Okay! (sometimes Okay Hot-Shot) is a 1963 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that uses his Ben-Day dots style and a text balloon. It is one of several examples of military art that Lichtenstein created between 1962 and 1964, including several with aeronautical themes like this one. It was inspired by panels from four different comic books that provide the sources for the plane, the pilot, the text balloon and the graphic onomatopoeia, "VOOMP!".
Title: Volkswagen Taigun
Passage: The Volkswagen Taigun is a new subcompact crossover SUV, which was to be unveiled by the Volkswagen Group for the model year of 2016.
Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down
Passage: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down is the eleventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. The book was unveiled during the 2016 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Virtually Live Event. The book was published on November 1, 2016. The real book trailer was released on October 17, 2016.
Title: Steve Fossett
Passage: In 2002, he became the first person to fly around the world alone, nonstop in any kind of aircraft. He launched the 10 - story high balloon Spirit of Freedom from Northam, Western Australia on June 19, 2002 and returned to Australia on July 3, 2002, subsequently landing in Queensland. Duration and distance of this solo balloon flight was 13 days, 8 hours, 33 minutes (14 days 19 hours 50 minutes to landing), 20,626.48 statute miles (33,195.10 km). The balloon dragged him along the ground for 20 minutes at the end of the flight. Only the capsule survived the landing; it was taken to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where it was displayed. The control center for the mission was in Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis. Fossett's top speed during the flight was 186 miles per hour (299 km / h) over the Indian Ocean. The trip set a number of records for ballooning: Fastest (200 miles per hour (320 km / h), breaking his own previous record of 166 miles per hour (270 km / h)), Fastest Around the World (13.5 days), Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon (20,482.26 miles (32,963.00 km)), and 24 - Hour Balloon Distance (3,186.80 miles (5,128.66 km) on July 1).
Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (film series)
Passage: Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a series of films based on the series of books, Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. The series consists of four films: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010), Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011), Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012) and the latest fourth film Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017).
Title: The Otterbury Incident
Passage: The Otterbury Incident is a novel for children by Cecil Day-Lewis first published in the UK in 1948 with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, and in the USA in 1949. Day-Lewis's second and final children's book, the novel is an adaptation of a French screenplay, "Nous les gosses" (Us Kids), that was filmed in 1941.
Title: Comics
Passage: American comics developed out of such magazines as Puck, Judge, and Life. The success of illustrated humour supplements in the New York World and later the New York American, particularly Outcault's The Yellow Kid, led to the development of newspaper comic strips. Early Sunday strips were full-page and often in colour. Between 1896 and 1901 cartoonists experimented with sequentiality, movement, and speech balloons.
Title: Purple Rain (film)
Passage: ``The Kid ''is the talented but troubled frontman of his Minneapolis - based band, The Revolution. To escape his difficult home life -- his father is verbally and physically abusive, and his mother is emotionally abusive -- he spends his days rehearsing and his nights performing at the First Avenue nightclub. First Avenue's three house band slots are held by The Revolution, the flashy Morris Day and his group The Time, and Dez Dickerson and his group The Modernaires. Morris, aware that The Revolution's guitarist Wendy and keyboardist Lisa are frustrated by the Kid's unwillingness to play their compositions, lobbies Billy Sparks, the nightclub's owner, to replace The Revolution with a girl group which Morris is already forming. He targets the Kid's girlfriend Apollonia -- an aspiring singer and new arrival in Minneapolis -- to lead his group, and tries to persuade her that the Kid wo n't help her because he's too focused on himself. She eventually joins Morris's group, which Morris names Apollonia 6. When she reveals her partnership to the Kid, he becomes furious and slaps her, as his father had struck him earlier.
Title: Bratatat!
Passage: Bratatat! is a 1963 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein in his comic book style of using Ben-Day dots and a text balloon.
Title: Johnny Test
Passage: On February 16, 2005, Kids' WB's unveiling of its new fall schedule for the 2005–2006 television season was announced by The WB Television Network, featuring its returning series "Yu-Gi-Oh!", "Pokémon", "The Batman", and "Xiaolin Showdown", alongside four new series: "Loonatics Unleashed", "Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island", "", and "Johnny Test". The aforementioned schedule was announced by The WB/Kids' WB Entertainment President David Janollari, Kids' WB Senior Vice President and General Manager Betsy McGowen, speaking to advertisers and the media press during the Kids' WB upfront sales presentation in New York. "Johnny Test" was created and executively produced by Scott Fellows, the creator of the three Nickelodeon live-action series ("Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide," "Big Time Rush", and 100 "Things to Do Before High School"), and the head writer for "The Fairly OddParents" and "ChalkZone". The show premiered on September 17, 2005, on Kids' WB's Saturday morning lineup of its weekly fall schedule, alongside "Loonatics Unleashed" and "Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island". The episode pair "Johnny to the Center of the Earth" and "Johnny X" marked the series premiere.
Title: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems
Passage: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems is a verse novel by Michael Ondaatje, published in 1970. It chronicles and interprets important events in the life of William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, and his conflict with Sheriff Pat Garrett.
Title: Balloon Kid
Passage: Balloon Kid is a flying platform game developed by Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy on October 5, 1990 in North America and on January 31, 1991 in Europe. It is the sequel to "Balloon Fight". It was never released in Japan for the original Game Boy; however, two years after its original release, a licensed Family Computer port titled was reprogrammed and released by Sanrio's subsidiary Character Soft exclusively in Japan on March 27, 1992. A Game Boy Color edition with a few new features titled was released in Japan on July 31, 2000.
Title: Nintendo Entertainment System
Passage: At June 1985's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Nintendo unveiled the American version of its Famicom. This is the system which would eventually be officially deployed as the Nintendo Entertainment System, or the colloquial "NES". Nintendo seeded these first systems to limited American test markets starting in New York City on October 18, 1985, following up with a full-fledged North American release of the console in February of the following year. Nintendo released 17 launch titles: 10-Yard Fight, Baseball, Clu Clu Land, Duck Hunt, Excitebike, Golf, Gyromite, Hogan’s Alley, Ice Climber, Kung Fu, Pinball, Soccer, Stack-Up, Tennis, Wild Gunman, Wrecking Crew, and Super Mario Bros.h[›] Some varieties of these launch games contained Famicom chips with an adapter inside the cartridge so they would play on North American consoles, which is why the title screen of Gyromite has the Famicom title "Robot Gyro" and the title screen of Stack-Up has the Famicom title "Robot Block".
Title: New York City Subway
Passage: The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the state - run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Opened in 1904, the New York City Subway is one of the world's oldest public transit systems, one of the world's most used metro systems, and the metro system with the most stations. It offers service 24 hours per day on every day of the year, though some routes may operate only part - time.
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