Early
Early adjective - Relating to or occurring near the beginning of a process, series, or time period.
Nether
Both words in one sentence
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days: Sayuri's isolation in the nether world drives this point home.
Source: Break The Cutie / Anime -
Real Life Writes the Plot: Much of the early story of Shadow of Israphel was made when nether portals were broken in SMP, so they had to come up with excuses for why the heroes couldn't enter them until the game was fixed.
- The ZX Spectrum had some early entrants many many moons ago (1984 saw Stonkers and 1987 — Nether Earth); the MSX saw Herzog in the late 80s — but only in Japan; and 1989 saw its sequel Herzog Zwei on the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) which introduced many of the genre conventions.
Source: Real-Time Strategy
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