Ikaruga may have been pretty mind boggling but I would have though 1 hit 1 kill games with a rewind back like RType would be considered harder. BTW they didn't mention that dreamcast also got Ikaruga.

I find most 1 hit 1 kill games dificult, contra, most shmups, ect.

Oh, I also thought the NES TMNT was pretty hard due to the horrible weapons and their lack of being able to sweep areas when being swung. Oh and things like the mobs respawning as soon as their spawn point went offscreen.

Sorry to pop the bubble here, but as a "World First" this has already been done, as far back as 2000 [Dr. William Dobelle]. There are many institutions working on this approach to making a prosthetic ocular device.

This one's approach is called a Retinal Implant, but the Dobelle approach (and many others) use a direct Neural Implant (complete with head-socket). They tested the implants/sockets on 9 individuals since the early 1980's and found little to no infection or contra-indications. It afforded a vision of 20/200 in the initial trials and improved up to 20/80 in the later trials. This later approach requires an external camera (likely mounted to a pair of glasses). I believe you can still get this operation done in Portugal.

The former approach of Retinal Implant (JUST like they show here) has been functioning by the Argus Group (USC & John Hopkins) since 2002 and is already approved by the FDA for a second generation trial of 60 individuals.

What puzzles me is why we hear so little about these amazing breakthroughs (years after the fact) and are instead so "up" on 'popular' news to the minute.

"You'll never hear anything like that from any Democratic Pollster, er, President, including the Obamessiah."

That may be true, but he is lying... Just read the history of the Iran Contra affair. Not to mention the horror show the Regan regime caused in Central America.

>> ^quantumushroom:
"First, let me say I take full responsibility for my own actions and for those of my administration. As angry as I may be about activities undertaken without my knowledge, I am still accountable for those activities. As disappointed as I may be in some who served me, I'm still the one who must answer to the American people for this behavior.
You'll never hear anything like that from any Democratic Pollster, er, President, including the Obamessiah.


And you will surely never, ever hear this from Bush.

The co-op looks as though it might have a little Contra feel to it as well, and I agree, Bionic Commando was a great game. It's nice to see it remade as a platform also.

Here are the links to the conspiracies listed in the video. These may not be the best links, but it is not my job to do your research for you. You need to find out all the available information yourself. This is just to get you some idea of the stories related to this video

Smallpox Blankets
http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html

Chicago Black Sox
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/blacksox.html

General Motors Street Car
http://www.lovearth.net/gmdeliberatelydestroyed.htm

Overthrow FDR
http://american_almanac.tripod.com/smedley.htm

Reichstag fire
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/burns.htm

Manhattan Project
http://www.atomicmuseum.com/Tour/manhattanproject.cfm

Quiz Show scandal
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/quizshow/

Operation Northwoods
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html

Gulf of Tonkin
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2261

Watergate
http://www.watergate.info/

Iran Contra
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/peopleevents/pande08.html

Enron & Aurthur Anderson
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/enron.html

Kennedy Assassination
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s68076.htm
There are probably more articles on this subject then any other mentioned. You can also see the movie JFK among many other films made on the subject.


Tuskegee Syphilis scandal
http://www.usrf.org/uro-video/Tuskegee_2004/Article_Header.jpg
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE5D91039F931A25756C0A961958260
http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm

We should never stop asking questions regarding events that appear in any way suspicious. If they have nothing to hide, then there should be no problem answering questions and giving the proper respect to either clear the names of the accused or indict them for crimes committed. Either way, people should never feel as if they should not ask the people in power the tough questions that need honest answers.

June 4, 1945 Anthony Braxton, jazz musician-contra bass clarinet and bass flute, alto sax..

For a quick sing-along review on Iran/Contra, for all you youngsters out there, see also http://www.videosift.com/video/Ollie-North-High-Treason

User Biminim is otherwise right, Iran/Contra was not directly related to the hostage issue McBane was talking about. Though it was extra embarrassing for Reagan when it was revealed that his administration was secretly helping the Iranian bugaboos after his supporters had assigned him so much credit for strong arming the earlier hostage release--especially when it was actually so obvious that that release had nothing to do with Reagan, who had taken office just days before.

[edit: removed bogus, unresearched comments concerning Bush Sr. (thanks T-man...)]

^Biminim:^

Does that mean that the situation McCain is referring to was actually a problem solved by Jimmy Carter and not Reagan at all?

In reply to this comment by Biminim:
I am not a McCain fan, but I have to respond to this. These are two DIFFERENT hostage situations. The one that McCain is referring to is the embassy hostage situation that was resolved the day Reagan took office in 1981. The Iran-Contra affair was about American hostages in Lebanon under the control of Hezbollah who were ransomed with weapons trans-shipped through Israel. Now, while there is deep speculation that the first hostage situation--our embassy staff taken in Tehran when Carter allowed the deposed Shah into the U.S. for cancer treatments--was resolved because of some back-channel dealings, including a rumor that George H.W. Bush went to Paris and met with Iranians to STALL the release of the hostages until after the U.S. election of 1980, these are two completely different situations. The first took place in 1981, the second in 1985/6. So McCain is technically right.

Now I understand Iran-Contra! Thanks, American Dad!

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Just posted another cartoon like this. Having to do with Ollie North and Iran-Contra.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ollie-North-High-Treason

Terrorists' pure fear of Republican presidents must be why Reagan had to sell weapons to Iran to free a new set of hostages in the Iran-Contra affair a couple of years after the Iran hostage crisis, and why the 9-11 attack occurred under Bush's presidency.

McCain:"[Reagan] didn't sit down and face negotiations with the religious extremists in Tehran." Seems like McCain is indeed not remembering things correctly.

I am not a McCain fan, but I have to respond to this. These are two DIFFERENT hostage situations. The one that McCain is referring to is the embassy hostage situation that was resolved the day Reagan took office in 1981. The Iran-Contra affair was about American hostages in Lebanon under the control of Hezbollah who were ransomed with weapons trans-shipped through Israel. Now, while there is deep speculation that the first hostage situation--our embassy staff taken in Tehran when Carter allowed the deposed Shah into the U.S. for cancer treatments--was resolved because of some back-channel dealings, including a rumor that George H.W. Bush went to Paris and met with Iranians to STALL the release of the hostages until after the U.S. election of 1980, these are two completely different situations. The first took place in 1981, the second in 1985/6. So McCain is technically right.