Given that this was 1995, I doubt they even foresaw ad revenue. There wasn’t really such a thing back then.

I look at the buttons. I’m just mashing them randomly anyway.

If by “drum”, you mean the super horn, then never complain about them. They are one of the most powerful items you can get when you’re ahead.

Yeah. I’m in my mid-30s, and remember the original Mortal Kombat heyday (when I was in my early teens). Back then, it was edgy, nothing had been seen like it before in gaming, and it was novel for its shock value.

If eating pizza involved self-sacrifice and a desire to transform your very identity for someone you love and always want to be with, then I’d get your point.

Not “perverse”. Just not something that was part of my childhood experience. Or that I believe could be a part of anyone’s childhood experience.

I know I certainly never “fell in love” with anyone as a child. I don’t know anyone who did.

It was basically a “child love story”. Or actually a child-fishperson love story.

To be fair. That’s only really the case in Green Hill Zone.

Hotline Miami was banned for gratuitous sexual violence.

At first, I didn’t realise. These are “pay per use”.

Puritanical? Australia?

Every time I’ve tried to use voice chat, I’ve started looking for a way to disable it within about two minutes.

I'm no climber, so I can't comment on realism, but all I want is a modern version of FireTrap, dual-stick climbing at all.

Lego Mindstorms.

More interesting, is that we now know what "Florian Eckhardt" is up to these days... posting at FastCompany.

To me, the biggest revelation from this whole saga was how perverse the gaming community has become.

If you love the game, but think it is "muddy", you really need to play it on the Dolphin emulator at 1080p. This trilogy upscales very well:

Molyneux focuses far too much on the tangential aspects of game development ("real-time trees!", "advanced wind physics!") and not enough on the core gameplay.

And in my interview with Molyneux, I did notice that he has a certain, extremely frustrating way of talking around anything that makes it sound like his intentions were anything less than pristinely pure. My sources were adamant that he had some sins to make up for, but he played the saint the entire time. He owned up…