Evan Ratliff
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Appearances Over Time
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And that's called the Konami code because the guy worked for Konami.
It's called armature out of wire.
And it worked for Gradius, but he became much more famous with the game Contra.
And the wire is in basically a position.
Thor likes to run holding his hammer.
I guess you played a lot of Contra probably, huh?
So he'll be kind of like in a crouched running pose.
For sure.
Now, what was Contra?
I don't even know.
And then they slap some clay around it.
It was a really kind of groundbreaking shooter game where I saw it described well as like a cross between Rambo and aliens.
Maybe bake it a little bit to make it stiff.
And then they mold very, very roughly.
the general body shape and head shape of Thor.
Ah, okay.
So if I remember correctly, you're in some sort of weird other world and you and your buddy are kind of like
And then they kind of start to get to work from there.
Yeah, rough Thor-ness is what they look for early on.
buff and wear like headbands and you have like spiky blonde hair oh yeah um but and you just shoot all sorts of stuff and it's really neat because you get different kinds of weapons that shoot in different ways and now you're like this is clunky and old but at the time it was there was just again nothing like it on the market yeah like a lot of the games that we understand today originated on the nes yeah for sure i think i've seen contra that sounds familiar