Daikatana est un jeu de tir à la première personne sur Nintendo 64. Le joueur endosse le rôle de Hiro, un légendaire voyageur temporel. Ce puissant guerrier traverse quatre époques (de la Grèce antique au Japon du XXVe siècle) avec plus de 25 armes à sa disposition. Quatre amis peuvent s'étriper joyeusement en multijoueur.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.