The first fighting game to use a twin-stick control scheme is Virtual-On (SEGA, 1995), the 1-on-1 arcade robot combat simulator which was first released in Japan in 1995. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
The New England Patriots (USA) scored a 16-0 record in 2007, becoming the first team in NFL history to achieve an undefeated regular season since the league went to a 16-game schedule in 1978. The New England Patriots (USA) joined the 1934 Chicago bears (13-0), 1942 Chicago Bears (11-0) and 1972 Miami Dolphins (14-0) as the only undefeated regular season teams in the NFL’s 88 year history
The earliest indisputable attainment of the North Pole by surface travel over the sea-ice took place at 3 p.m. (Central Standard Time) on 19 April 1968, when expedition leader Ralph Plaisted (USA), accompanied by Walter Pederson, Gerald Pitzl and Jean Luc Bombardier, reached the pole after a 42-day trek in snowmobiles.
Released on 29 May 2007, the “Mach 4” is the first universal triplescreen simulator for use with Xbox 360. The Mach 4 pushes the reality of driving to a new level – even going so far as to replicate the price! At $25,000 (£12,500), it’s out of the range of your typical gamer’s pocket money. Guinness World Records Gamers’ Edition 2009.
The first woman to complete an unsupported ski journey to the North Pole was Tina Sjögren (Sweden) who, along with husband Thomas Sjögren, made the journey in 68 days from 22 March to 29 May 2002. They made the journey from Ward-Hunt Island in Canada’s Northwest Territories and received no external support.
1989’s Hard Drivin’, originally designed as a driving simulation, had seen driving games head down a slightly different track and go in search of a more realistic automotive experience with the first use of a force feedback wheel. This enabled the gamer to get a “feel” of the road with the steering wheel responding to the driver’s actions. Guinness World Records Gamer’s edition 2009
The earliest use of air blocking, in which a fighting character is able to block an offensive strike while in mid-air first appeared in Darkstalkers which was released in 1994. This was also the earliest fighting series to use Capcom’s advanced animation engine, which allowed more animation frames per character than other fighting games of the time.
The earliest use of apitherapy (the pharmacological use of honeybee products) to treat illnesses was by the ancient Chinese, Greeks and Romans. Greek physician, Galen (129-200 AD) is said to have used honey and bee venom to treat baldness! Bees are still used today as a type of ‘insect acupuncture’, and is particularly popular in the alternative treatment of auto-immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and arthritis. http://www.beelief.com/content.asp?sectionID=35 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apitherapy http://www.wordspy.com/words/apitherapy.asp
The Oscar winning movie Closed Mondays (USA, 1975) – the directorial debut of Will Vinton (USA) – saw the first use of the Claymation process, in which modelling clay is animated using stop-motion. Vinton patented the process and went to create two decades’ of colorful work, including the famous California Raisins and many MTV commercials.
Japanese police have used Nintendo Wii software to generate a wanted post of a hit and run suspect. Usually police authorities use police artists or photofit software for such purposes. However, by selecting a range of face shapes, hairstyles, ears and other features using the Nintendo “Mii” feature, the police were able to create the impression of a young man with hair and sunglasses to use on a wanted poster at the scene of the car accident next to a photo of the type of
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