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It doesn't take a master of Mad Gab to discern the phonetically equivalent true title Konami was going for with this one, especially after you realize that the setting is a Soviet stronghold and all of the enemies are Communists. Do you need anything else? It's no Blades of Steel (hell EA's NHL09 isn't Blades of Steel), but growing up in Minnesota and playing on a hockey team ensured that this one was in the NES as much as Super Mario 3.

I think I've got the same fond memory for this one as everyone else does: skinny dude, medium dude, and fat dude. The only game that ended up rivaling this excellent design was Konami's Blades of Steel, but the two were different enough to own and enjoy both (which is why you'll find Blades on this countdown). Every Ice Hockey player discovered their own perfect combination of men, and then it was on to the ice. You could choose from three different player body types, and outfit your team with any combination of them fast but weak Skinny Guys, brawny but slow Fat Guys, or well-balanced, middle-ground Normal Guys.

This game of skating and slap shots was perfectly balanced, simple fun with just the right touch of planning and strategy to keep things interesting match after match. None of those games ended up having the lasting appeal and addictiveness of one of its other contemporaries, though – the first-party Nintendo sports sim known simply as Ice Hockey. Nintendo had a fairly diverse lineup of sports titles introduced for the NES early on in the system's life cycle, including 8-bit interpretations of soccer, tennis, volleyball and even downhill slalom skiing. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game But of course, ”we want to be closer to the consumer”, mhm.Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Troubleīattletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate TeamĪ Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia When Madison dropped them, it was game over.

He also said they will go direct ”to be closer to the consumer”, when in reality they were impotent to build a dealer network in relevant countries, even when they had the Athertons, and they were notorious for changing sales people who played hardball on the dealers and tried to screw them over, forcing them to make preorders larger than they could sell etc. Of course, throughout the years Max said a lot of things.

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Otherwise, why are limiting our views, only thinking of Commencal, or, if it is Commencal, they won't do carbon? I recall the Skin days very well also, I actually was at the press conference of their launch and there was no talk about environmental impact. I am honestly wondering how it compares in quality of workmanship to a top alloy bike of today, considering there still is such a thing. It has an integrated headset and a pressfit BB and, of course, the Gradient tubing Klein was famous for. Writing all this, I am looking on my closet at a late generation Attitude Team, with a leftover frame that was still made in Chehalis, Washington, before Trek took over. How light and safe to ride can you make a Cannondale Super V? What a about a Raven? What about a first generation Scalpel in CAAD guise? A Klein Adept? A Klein Palomino? And I am sure the list doesn't end just here. Regarding the XC alloy bikes of yesteryear, we could take a peak a bit back in history. And said machining is done on the inside of the frame, where tooling access is far from what acces on the outside (facing the usual pivot locations and the BB, the headtube and the seat tube for example) is. Similar story with the twin-mast 'seat tube' and the upper rocker going driving the shock via the pivot axle, tolerancing that must be a PITA and machining probably has to be done after the frame is fully welded.

Milling the insides to dimension isn't that hard, but has to be done after the fact, after the welding process, unlike with a machined/forged tube end that can be machined to size before welding. The seatstay is just a folded over tube with bosses welded in there, capturing the rocker. You can do a lot with correct design (minimise the amount of flexing for example), but you give the frame an expiration date even more so than with just general riding (all aluminium frames have a finite lifetime).Īs for the Supreme, not impossible.

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How many of the ultra light bikes back in the day had 29er wheels? Disc brakes? How many of them lasted half a season or a full season? And yeah, you can make a flex stay, there are a few out there (Scott being one of them and over in the tech rumors a few were mentioned fairly recently as well).

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