Quote:TLC will air a documentary called Gameheadz about the people and systems that most formed what we know as the videogame industry today. It chronicles the visionaries, inventors, and the story of computer games. The premier will be on Wednesday April 16th at 10 PM EST/PST. Atari's founder Nolan Bushnell and Pong's creator Al Alcorn tell their story, and Activision's founder explains the industry collapse in 1983. Ralph Baer explains the Odyssey system and what really began videogaming.
After the downfall of Atari, Nintendo came in and built the industry back up again. Shigeru Miyamoto gets the nod for being the main contibutor behind the resurgance of videogames and famous franchise characters. Miyamoto tells an intriguing story of how he was asked to design his first game - Donkey Kong and talks about his childhood spent exploring the Japanese countryside and how it inspired his magical thinking.
Miyamoto will also perform the theme tune to Super Mario Bros. on his guitar. He then reveals how he came up with the formula of Zelda, which game critics at the time said was doomed for failure. Nintendo's dominance in the game industry was assured by Nintendo's picking up of the world rights for Tetris. Henk Rogers tells how he went to Communist Russia and befriended the games creator Alexey Pajitnov. Lastly, Pajitnov speaks on how he came up with the idea of Tetris.
Quote:Mother 1 + 2 have been announced in Japan (Earthbound here in North America) for the GBA, and we've got the first commercial for you. (Thanks Quiter!)
Mother 1+2 will be released on June 20th, for 4800 yen. There's no release date for Mother 3, but there's a tease at the end of the commercial. Well have more information when we find our Japanese correspondent. For now, check out the commercial!
Billy adds that they discovered that Mother 3 will also be on the GBA. While that isn't as exciting as a new Mother game on the GC that's still pretty good.
This guy is the chief news executive at CNN (a very leftist news organization) and this guy has known for YEARS about Saddam's torture methods.
So, even though he says that he couldn't report those specific incidents, when the preparation for war started, did he get behind the president to try and convince people that liberating the Iraqi people was right? No, quite to the contrary. CNN <B>continues</B> to be biased to the left, to this very day.
This guy didn't even need to share those specific examples that would have gotten his employees killed or tortured, all he would have had to do, is publish a few pieces on the Human Rights issue in Iraq...after all, the president was talking about liberating them, if he knew all this stuff, he should have SUPPORTED the president instead of trying to prevent war.
Since the war in Iraq I have thought alot of how much our military has degenerated into the pitiful thing it is now.
But the Americans have our people to thank for alot of thier greatest achievements , Such as the Apollo missions were many former Avro workers worked extensively on constructingthe rocket prepulsion systems.
Many of canadas acheivements such as the first Military aircraft capable of doing Moch 2.
(also first to use Delta wing design)
It is said the Arrow is infact still pretty much on par with modern Supersonic fighters including F-18 and F-22 in technology and capability , If the Arrow would have been put inservice it would still be in use today.
The canadian goverment started the project as we realized a serious weakness in our defenses as we had miles of Barren north land to defend from a Soviet incurision and missles and regular aircraft would not be capable of defending the artic so we needed to build a highspeed weapon to combat a soviet strike.
Sadly our but kissing PM decided to scrap the project since he feared resent from the U.S goverment as we would have had air superiority and of course mr defen gayer decided to make up some excuss that the program costed to much.
Sadly if we had not scraped the project undoubtingly Canada wouldnt be in such a feeble military state today, also we would also be leaders in aircraft deisgn which could have given us alot of prosperity and a boost in the almighty dollar.