Solid Snake: The Mullet.

Who needs MacGuyver? Solid Snake can make anything look cool, and he sure helped make the mullet popular again with his appearance in MGS2 Sons of Liberty. Or maybe it was because a mullet, as derogatory as it may once have been, is still infinitely better than Raiden’s just-shampooed-and-fluffy VO5 pretty boy hairstyle. If it wasn’t for Shadow Moses he’d be happily lying down, having a cigarette and a beer.

Guile: The Dolph Lundgren/Arnie buzzcut.

The look that almost instantly sums up the 80s and early 90s action movie star, and Guile had one that was totally outrageous (and very very horizontal on top). For such… Read More

How great were cartridges? I’m guessing that most of you have experienced a game cartridge in your lifetimes (even before the N64), and what an experience they were. How many times did you have to blow into the chip-end of it when your game didn’t work? Game interactivity was alive and well a long time before the Wii. My first cart game was Secret Command on the Sega Master System II, and my tiny buddies and I used to trade games in primary school. Wonder Boy for Paper Boy for instance. Or working game for non-working game (no matter how hard you blew, so you get parents involved). And our Sega clique used to mock the Nintendo kids because of their huge carts in comparison. Gameplay wasn’t really an issue… Read More