22 June 1996, he released the legendary game Quake. In this first-person shooter, the player took on the role of a nameless soldier, a military base which was attacked by hordes of monsters spawned by Shub-Niggurath. The task was to go into enemy territory to another dimension and kill the boss. In total, the game has 28 levels divided into four episodes.
Quake
The game is interesting not only the plot, but also the revolutionary technologies: the products and the buildings on the map was not flat images (“sprites”), as it were, for example, in Doom, and the real three-dimensional objects.
Beta Quake no single mode was released in February of 96, and on the first day, then in the Internet there are dozens of game servers. But the birthday became a cult game should be considered on 22 June, when Activision became possible to download the full version with one episode.
All of the soundtracks for Quake was written by the frontman of the band Nine Inch Nails ‘ Trent Reznor. And the logo of the team you can see the game on the boxes of nails for guestimate.
And in this day…
June 22, 2009 Kodak announced that it is ending production of the color film Kodachrome 64. By the end of the first decade of the XXI century, the company was forced to admit defeat film before “number”. “Kodachrome” has existed for 74 years (since 1935) and became the most long-lived brand of color film.
Kodachrome
The last roll of Kodachrome went to National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry, who loaded her own Nikon F6 and went eastward to Bombay, Rajasthan, Istanbul, London and back to new York. Endpoint “photo travel” July 14, 2010 was the city of Parson in Kansas, which by that time was the last on the planet darkroom, show Kodachrome. Several of the images were published in Vanity Fair magazine, but, unfortunately, his website is now not showing the gallery.
June 22, 1973 with the orbit of the Earth returned the first crew of Skylab, the first U.S. orbital space station. Interestingly, the command station, designed for scientific research, worked in the mission in the main repair. During launch, Skylab was damaged solar panel, causing the spacecraft remained almost without power. The astronauts had to go into space to fix the panel (at first they tried to do it, leaning out of the gateway only to the waist, but to no avail).
Space station Skylab
It was ahead of the station Salyut–1 which went into orbit 71-m to year. However, she was noticeably smaller than the others and spent only 175 days (Skylab fell on Australia, missing near the Atlantic ocean after 2249-day rotation around the Earth).