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Todd Monken required merely 20 additional minutes. Editor’s Picks This past Monday, the Cleveland Browns’ leading strategist was among a pair of coaches absent from the NFL’s yearly collective picture. While Monken failed to attend the group portrait, which is intended to include all 32 head coaches, his absence appeared to have a valid justification. Per Daniel Oyefusi of ESPN, the picture was…

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Army head coach Jeff Monken after 2OT loss to Michigan: ‘That’s the spirit of the American soldier’ (VIDEO)

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Army coach Jeff Monken delivers emotional pregame speech (VIDEO)

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It's hard to remember now, when "armed extremist" usually conjures up images of religious zealots plotting destruction in a cave or making bombs in a crummy one bedroom apartment someplace, that only a generation ago, attempting to wage violent insurrection and incite global revolution was as popular with first-world college students as dropping out to start dubious dot.coms is today...

The 70s were a weird time. You had open religious warfare being fought on the streets of Northern Ireland with guns and bombs, while dozens of armed left-wing organizations with names like the Weathermen, Red Army Faction, Bader-Meinhoff Gang, and the June 2nd Movement all worked to foment world-wide revolution (when they weren't fighting each other.) 

While a full discussion of the origins and implications of the nascent left-wing 60's and 70's terror movements is beyond the scope of a stupid videogame website, allow me to assure you: shit got real.

Japanese college students were not immune to the siren song of violent revolution. The Japanese Red Army Faction led the Lod Airport Massacre, where 26 tourists were murdered at an Israeli airport, as well as hijacking two planes, resulting in 100 fatalities.

Another Japanese communist cell that was related to the JRAF, United Red Army, specialized in killing its own members -- more than half of the 29 core members died of "defeatism" (AKA being beaten to death or tied outside to die of exposure) between December '71 and February '72. 

When two ideologically impure members escaped the URA's training camp and went to police, resulting in arrests, the rest of the United Red Army did the only logical thing: They took over a strongly-build moutain vacation lodge nearby, filled it with guns and bombs, took the caretaker's young wife hostage and waited for the Revolution to begin.

The ensuing week-long siege and eventual rescue attempt -- known as the Asama-Sanso Incident -- was Japan's first modern media circus, with hours of live TV coverage of the police attempts to root out the terrorists and free Yasuko Muta. The rescue took days to coordinate, both because of the lack of preparation by the police for hotage situations in what amounted to a nearly impregnable mountain fortress, and futile efforts to get the terrorists to surrender peacefully.

The siege tools in the police arsenal included a baseball pitching machine. It was loaded with rocks to ensure a constant noisy assault on the building, keeping the terrorists on edge. More effective tools were firehoses and a massive wrecking ball, or Monken. The wrecking ball breached the strong exterior walls and the firehoses ground away at the interior of the lodge during the eight hour assault. Even so, it eventually took a fatal charge to subdue the terrorists who had holed up on the top floor. Two police were killed in the final assault, along with a civilian who had wandered too close to the action, but Yasuko Muta was rescued, and the final five URA members were captured. (The incident also firmly turned the Japanese public against radical left-wing causes.)  

Now a super-team of Japanese developers is immortalizing the incident by bringing it to a new generation in game form: Monken. You control a anthropomorphized wrecking ball, Monken, as it works it way through a Showa era town, smashing buildings to free hostages and destroy terrorists. The gameplay itself features some of the momentum connservation of Tiny Wings and swinging judgement that recalls Tower Bloxx - you don't just want to smash buildings randomly, but need to hit the windows where the terrorists appear. That's because Moken the wrecking ball is holding on to the crane by his hands. Each hit weakens him and eventually he drops off, causing a game over.  Of course, a good measure of Rampage ties things together.   

Although I haven't played the game yet, the system itself sounds super compelling, and the video has me very excited for the final product.