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

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

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah, I thought this was pretty interesting.

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

So it starts with design, right?

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

And it was really hard.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Right.

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

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.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Which, I mean, it's pretty sensible.

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

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

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

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

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

And is extraordinarily famous.

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

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

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

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

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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.

Stuff You Should Know
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.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

And the wire is in basically a position.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Thor likes to run holding his hammer.

Stuff You Should Know
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?

Stuff You Should Know
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.

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

For sure.