I love console variants, especially the really bizarre stuff, like the crazy car Saturn. Too bad most of the cooler variations tend to come out so deep in the life cycle I’ve already picked up a “normal” one by then. 

Oh yeah, for sure. I’ve just personally gone from “OMG these old games are so primitive” during the PS2-3 era to appreciating just how much they got out of so little.

I picked it up on launch, was disapointed, came back for Next and was wowed by how much it improved, but after the “new car smell” wore off, I have to agree. There’s just nothing TO the game. There’s not really any narrative hook to follow, there’s no amazing loot that really makes you feel accomplished, there’s no…

Same, very few games at this point I absolutely have to have right away so those few I do pre-order for the perks. Everything else I basically wait to go on sale. 

Never saw Time Traveler in person but I did get to play Holosseum. Very much a case of “cool tech, but the game is crap”. I played it once, it cost like a buck in tokens, the fighting was trash, and then I went back to the good fighting games that arcade had.

The technical sorcery (I really don’t know what else to call it) behind some of these older games (like midi networking!) really astonishes me. Nowadays we gripe about things not hitting 4k 60fps, back then they were figuring out how to get a square peg in a round hole. 

I’m dating myself spectacularly here, but heck yeah, that was the jam back in like middle school, early high school!

I’m instantly reminded of Faceball 2000 for some reason.

“This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you! “

AC has long been one of my under the radar (see what I did there) cult favorite series. Spirtual successor to After Burner and G-LOC, I fell in love with the gameplay from the jump, and while absurd, I love the fact it’s basically Dogfight JRPG in the primary universe. I’ve been looking forward to returning to…

One of my first cooking (if you could call it that) “aha!” moments was that. We used to occasionally grab a cold hotdog and just eat it as is as kids, and “hey, these taste just like bologna cold”. Remembering that during a hangover “hmm, if cold hot dogs taste like bologna, I wonder what would happen if i fried this…

I bought the remake of SoM on PSN when it came out. I could get into the remake not being that great, or that SoM itself hasn’t aged super well, but man, when I heard Fear of the Heavens for the first time in years, I was instantly a 12 year old boy sitting on the floor of my grandparents spare bedroom with my dog…

I used to bike everywhere in my teen years and was a LOT more fearless back then (like every other stupid “invincible” teenager). I definitely got up to “passing moving car” speeds (so thinking 40-45ish, give take) down a huge hill one time and pants shitting terrifying is a very accurate description. Last time I took…

That was my biggest take too. I’m to the point where I really don’t even like fast food much anymore at all (yeah yeah I’m old, i get it), but it’s at least tolerable when it’s still hot off the fryer. Sitting at room temp getting all nasty? Ewww. 

That whole game’s soundtrack is just pure unbridled audio joy/heroin. But I’ve always absolutely loved Danger. Opens with “oh crap” terror sounds and works its way up to a heroic cresendo, almost like a boss fight itself.

Two of my favorites,

You ever see someone and just go “That pud has a very punchable face?”

It’s not just the awesome line, it’s Cap’s soldier instincts noticing all the little “tells” giving away the ambush before hand, the positioning of the goons, the hidden weapons, etc, THEN the line.

I just want him to get the fuck off my TV every 20 minutes in those obnoxious Verizon commercials, myself. 

MGS was my first Metal Gear game, picking it up on launch when it debuted and I instantly fell in love. I picked up Subsistence (having already gotten MGS3 on launch day) SOLELY to play MG and MG2.