Tim Walker

@daddymulk.bsky.social

Father, translator, Sega Genesis collector, G1 fan, Taito aficionado. Arcade Archives Lady Bug Heavyweight Champion. Fighting hard to bring the interjection “Gangway!” back into our daily vernacular. “I’m taking this pretty seriously!”

I realize I’m like two decades late to the party, but I’ve just gotta ask: you cannot pause this game!? Like, Start + A takes you to the Codec screen, but Start by itself does absolutely NOTHING?! What the actual fuck is this horseshit?!

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (GameCube). There’s no pause text on the screen because there’s no way to pause this game.

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The AI Demand Bubble

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JFC, people are paying $50-60 just for that poster that came with most copies of X-Men on the Genesis?! That’s got to be one of the most common ones out there that’s not one of Sega’s game lineup ones they packed in with dozens of different games.

Man, imagine if they made a version of MGS1 where those final 15 minutes of gameplay were actually enjoyable. (Maybe they did with Twin Snakes? I haven’t played much of that one, but I can’t imagine its take on the fistfight and turret sections could be any worse.)

It’s funny how, for all of its technical prowess at the time, they still apparently chose to hard-code a 10-character limit for area names into Metal Gear Solid, leaving the localizer to make due as best he could.

“Supply Route” I’m guessing? Blaustein tried. There’s only so much you can do when character limits are a factor.

Thinking about Brand New Day further and (minorest of spoilers from stuff that’s pretty clear from the trailers and not about Sadie Sink)…. The way they handled some of the minor characters felt perfectly fine and it made me mad all over again that they completely cut Malkovich out of Fantastic 4.