Ah yes, Chuck E. Cheese pizza - brings back such fond memories:

WHY DOES THE WATER KILL YOU? Are you a frog made of sugar?

Well yeah think of all the frog lives that will be saved

Missed opportunity: a “John Romero is about to make you his friend” ad when he started making facebook games.

He’s a black belt in Hulk Smash.

Would be better if you moved tile to tile on an invisible grid and could only turn 90 degrees.

This would be a terrible thing to find out about your son. They should ground him for at least a week or you run the risk of him growing up to be someone who regularly makes PowerPoint presentations.

Here ya go:

The pic is from Terminator which came out about 3 yrs before Metal Gear.

Aren’t they all the same character? MGS is so confusing. Solid Snake, Liquid Snake, Iroquois Plisken, Big Boss. WTF. Is there a ELI5 somewhere?

EDIT: Nevermind, found one. What a cluster f***.

I’ve heard the Konami dungeon is quite nice this time of year!

Meanwhile, Kyle Reese waits for his revenge.

Isn’t Snake more or less Snake Pliskin in the first place?

I teach English (lit/rhet comp), and the first thing I try to get across to my students is that -all- work is derivative at the present time; there are no dramatic situations an author can propose that have not already been hit (at their base notes) by those…

But dammit, Disney paid a lot for these characters!

Well, if Stephen Yeun really does have a hole in his schedule... #BringBackShortRound He’s grown up and adopted his hero’s name, investigating the archaeological mysteries of Asia.

So, did anyone on Kotaku play it? Is it a good game?

Exactly.

Once you get to VP level you immediately become immune to hangovers apparently. Mine was in town a couple of weeks ago and made us stay out until 2am on a Tuesday. The next day he beat us all into the office...not a great look.