Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> FWIW, I didn't recognise the guy at the beginning
> 
>   You don't know Contra, aka. Probotector, aka. Gryzor?

Nope. That's what I said.  I read the comments on the page where I found it, 
and that's the first mention I'd ever heard of him.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> FWIW, I didn't recognise the guy at the beginning
> > 
> >   You don't know Contra, aka. Probotector, aka. Gryzor?

> Nope. That's what I said.  I read the comments on the page where I found it, 
> and that's the first mention I'd ever heard of him.

  You refer to a game as "he"?-)

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>>> FWIW, I didn't recognise the guy at the beginning
>>>   You don't know Contra, aka. Probotector, aka. Gryzor?
> 
>> Nope. That's what I said.  I read the comments on the page where I found it, 
>> and that's the first mention I'd ever heard of him.
> 
>   You refer to a game as "he"?-)

"Him" being the protagonist of the game which appears in the video.

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    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.

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Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/11/2010 6:22 AM, nemesis wrote:
>
> > Mostly references to old NES games:  Contra, Metroid, Super Mario Bros and
> > Tetris, sure...
>
> I must have missed the metroid reference ...

he jumps spinning in the air...

hmm, come to think about it, Contra also features that... :P

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On 6/11/2010 10:25 PM, nemesis wrote:

>
> he jumps spinning in the air...
>

Oh, you're right I remember now thinking "Screw Attack" when he did that.

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