Evan Ratliff

So another thing that those controllers did was give us the cheat code, which I guess you could conceivably do on like an Atari joystick.

So that would probably do it.

Yeah, that's true.

You know?

All right.

But they really came along thanks to the NES because there was a developer who was trying to turn the arcade game Gradius into a Nintendo game.

So you want to talk about how these suckers are made?

Yeah.

Again, you found some good stuff here when you put this together.

Yeah, I thought this was pretty interesting.

So it starts with design, right?

And it was really hard.

Right.

So he created this cheat code to make it easier to kind of game test for him so he wouldn't have to start over every time.

Which, I mean, it's pretty sensible.

You say, give us a Thor character, you sucker.

And they're talking to an artist, a sculptor, when they say that.

And is extraordinarily famous.

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.

So the sculptor gets to work like creating like basically a skeleton.