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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And that's called the Konami code because the guy worked for Konami.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

It's called armature out of wire.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And it worked for Gradius, but he became much more famous with the game Contra.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

And the wire is in basically a position.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Thor likes to run holding his hammer.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

I guess you played a lot of Contra probably, huh?

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

So he'll be kind of like in a crouched running pose.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

For sure.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Now, what was Contra?

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

I don't even know.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

And then they slap some clay around it.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

It was a really kind of groundbreaking shooter game where I saw it described well as like a cross between Rambo and aliens.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Maybe bake it a little bit to make it stiff.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

And then they mold very, very roughly.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

the general body shape and head shape of Thor.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Ah, okay.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

So if I remember correctly, you're in some sort of weird other world and you and your buddy are kind of like

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

And then they kind of start to get to work from there.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah, rough Thor-ness is what they look for early on.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

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