Not too anonymous, though. His username is horace22, very easy to track down.

Yes. "Beat" Takeshi Kitano. If you want some other good stuff from him try Sonatine, Brother, Hana-bi, or Outrage.

Are any of them missing one or more claws?

Yes, those were great games, but my PlayStation some how lasted longer than my N64. I did pump many hours into some of those games you listed...but:
Resident Evil 1, 2 (first),
Final Fantasy VII, VIII, Tactics
Metal Gear Solid
Silent Hill
Driver
Grand Theft Auto 1, 2
NES/SNES Squaresoft collections (Chrono Trigger, other…

A one-liter bottle of Old Crow: the hooch of choice for middle-aged drunks who watch television 12 hours a day.

Because no PS1 article can be complete without this:

Ancient Ancient Age 10-Star, is the greatest bourbon you can buy in a plastic bottle.

Old Crow holds up just fine on $2 Whiskey & Coke night.

One of my all time favorite consoles ever. While people were going googly eye for the Nintendo 64, all of the better games were for this system. Hell I still own at least 5 games from my old PS1 library thanks to the PS3 able to play them. To be honest, I was more excited that the PS3 was backwards compatible to the…

the original PS1 had a fantastic built in DAC that made it very popular for home audio enthusiasts.

PUT ALL OF YOUR ARTICLES INTO A BOOK AND I WILL BUY EVERY SINGLE COPY.

Fantastic as always Albert. My favorite part of Deadspin.

I disagree. I would pay a thousand dollars for the audiobook if he narrated it.

He called into Car Talk one day and those Tappet Brothers dared to make fun of his situation!

They forgot to take into account the acquired layers of protective skin and tissues...

You seem pissed bro. Is Jet cooking only mushrooms this week again?

Uh Alien 3 is pretty watchable in the director's cut.......It's Resurrection that is a huge lump of shit and killed the franchise

Only if lil' Ripley is running around with the crew of the betty...Give me more Vriess and Johner all day long.
Oh and resurrect Christie too please.

As others have mentioned, her daughter is discussed when she is awoken in Aliens, 57 years after she first went into cryosleep after escaping the Nostromo. In that time her daughter grew up, got married, and died 2 years before Ripley was found and awoken. This loss of her child due to cryosleep/time dilation was…