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Dyson \\ 04.21.2008	57 comments

I know I say this every Monday but, hooray Monday! Not too much has changed over that course of the last week, but then again, not much does in the world of retro. I hear that in the next-gen world, a 360 burned a house down, Nintendo is still on top, and Sony fans are chomping at the bit for the new MGS 4. None of that effects us in any way, but we can throw in our 2¢ by talking about the original Metal Gear games, right?

Highlights!

Pizza Rolls GO!

Dyson = not-restraint

This week VC is fun, fun, FUN!

According to Toph-lette, there is no Yardsale

Love can bloom on the battlefield

Stupid retarded love, but love all the same

Lone Manitee <3's Kevlar Trousersnake

So, yeah, looking back, those are pretty weird sounding highlights. I guess you'll just have to listen and find out what the heck this week's show was all about. While you're doing that, I'm still going to try and get through the origianl Metal Gear series for the NES. That is, of course, unless I FEEL ASLEEP.

57 COMMENTS, LATEST BY GreenDragon
Hey you guys were talking about Metal Gear Solid on the Gameboy Colour this episode and about it's relation to the canon. Well in Japan Metal Gear Solid on GBC is called Metal Gear:Ghost Babel a... - view discussion

There are 57 comments about this post:

JTHomeslice says:
04/21/2008 15:31

Yay, old stuff is the best!

FreedomToast says:
04/21/2008 15:32

"self-control is for fucking assholes"

lol nicely put

CypherVR says:
04/21/2008 15:32

Metal gear...

...also first

CypherVR says:
04/21/2008 15:32

damn...

king3vbo says:
04/21/2008 15:38

No yardsale? :(

sleepingagain says:
04/21/2008 15:39

yay! monday is complete now!

Dexter345 says:
04/21/2008 15:45

Already have it downloaded (Aerox tipped us off in IRC), and I'm beginning to listen to it now.

welkstar says:
04/21/2008 15:51

My favorite part of Monday!

PaperBowser0 says:
04/21/2008 15:53

As if monday couldn't get any better. :D

Remo says:
04/21/2008 15:55

JOY!

Guagloves says:
04/21/2008 15:58

YAY for Retroforce. Sad that there is no yardsale.

Amethystine says:
04/21/2008 16:03

Last week, you guys read my questions on the show, so that's awesome. But you thought I was a girl. Not as awesome.

In conclusion, I am a man. I guess it's my fault for having this name, though.

Dead Movie Star says:
04/21/2008 16:32

Great episode, but where the hell is my trimate? My arm is in a cast, ya know.

Also, thanks for the shout out at the end about your powers :)!

Spartacus says:
04/21/2008 16:34

Spartacus says:
04/21/2008 16:35

I SURE HOPE THERE ARE NO MGS3 SPOILERS

...Are there?

Haxan says:
04/21/2008 16:35

Robert McKee says: "Why are you wasting my time with your bullshit Video Game?!"

Chad Concelmo says:
04/21/2008 16:37

@Amethystine,
OH NO! I think someone you told me you were a girl! I blame them!
I feel weird now having thoughts about putting a baby in you ... :O

Samit Sarkar says:
04/21/2008 16:46

But Chad, I want you to put a baby in me!

iTunes-ing now.

Haxan says:
04/21/2008 16:49

The Robert McKee bit is a reference to the Rev Rant (he'll get it), not a hating on Metal Gear. I don't hate as a rule.

Kyuzo says:
04/21/2008 16:54

You guys made my day, glad you like the picture! I drove around trying to find a suitable telephone pole to put it on.

And hell yeah I have a high rez version (aka big one), I'll send it to you guys later tonight :)

(great episode!)

Dexter345 says:
04/21/2008 16:58

@Chad: I don't know if it's been that way from the beginning, but the later games lets you use cigarette smoke to detect lasers. You know, so you don't set off alarms.

CypherVR says:
04/21/2008 17:31

funran says:
04/21/2008 17:50

I wish I was a girl, so Chad could put a baby in me. Maybe I'll have Chad put a baby in my girlfriend.

Reverend Anthony says:
04/21/2008 18:08

Haxan:
Hahaha. Nice reference. The more I read of Story, the more confused I become in my opinion toward the guy.

Blake says:
04/21/2008 18:12

Oh wow. I won? Either way, awesome show this week.

So...what do I do now that I've won?

naia-the-gamer says:
04/21/2008 18:13

Informer Salamander is my Metal Gear name with my online persona (yes my online persona has a last name too) With my real life name I'm Intoxicating Gorilla.

This is fun!

Glad you like the Haiku music by the way :)

djnkro says:
04/21/2008 19:10

The cigs in Metal gear 1 extend the time you have to escape at the end.

You can bow to me. I am god.

Dan CiTi says:
04/21/2008 19:34

I'm Bayonet Cobra!

Dan CiTi says:
04/21/2008 19:41

MGS4 David Hayter interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsBcNuviOnQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ2bF9ZLuuA

aborto thefetus says:
04/21/2008 20:12

The game with Optimus Prime, tell me what it is. NOW!!!!

Dan CiTi says:
04/21/2008 20:14

Also, Wolf is awesome. But I'd gladly trade Falco for Megaman or Chrono or MASTER CHIEF.

Dan CiTi says:
04/21/2008 20:18

Crono*

Also, Battle Stadium D.O.N. is the best crossover fighting game ever made

KamikazeTutor says:
04/21/2008 21:02

<Fighting a robot hand-to-hand>

It's not a robot, it's Gray Fox from Metal Gear Solid.

Boy you guys sounded like old geezers in this show. :P

"I remember I fought that metal gear thingamajig with my bare hands."

KamikazeTutor says:
04/21/2008 21:13

Here's the correct answer to what SaxAttk asked.
This is what's on Metal Gear Saga DVD 1 (if my memory doesn't trick me).

One of the developers of Snake's Revenge met Kojima on a train and told him how much he and the team who made the bastard sequel wanted to make a real sequel with him.

Hideo still wasn't sold on the idea but it changed in a matter of days.

Elitechief27 says:
04/21/2008 21:26

I love how Anthony busts my balls as soon as the haiku is over. Actually the milk part was not ment to be read, just to help clear up things, but,like Colette said, it's comming along and in like 100 episodes, it will be ten times better than it is now

Amethystine says:
04/21/2008 21:40

@Chad: I don't know if I should feel honoured or upset.

Qalamari says:
04/21/2008 22:12

@ Aborto- I think this is what you're looking for.

Also, (I haven't gotten to listen to the show yet, but) did you guys see the thing I put together? Just wondering.

Reaprar says:
04/21/2008 22:56

Oho, I'll give you a big one.

Reaprar says:
04/21/2008 22:57

... Oh god damn it, I said that before I heard you all reconize the dirtyness, I thought I was being witty, fuck.

Reaprar says:
04/21/2008 23:02

Anthony, in your "two guys that can never die except from old age" you forgot someone really important.

JoeFitz703 says:
04/21/2008 23:21

Cigs not only show trip beams, but they also steady your aim with the sniper rifle. Ahhh sweet calming cancer

Reverend Anthony says:
04/22/2008 00:47

Elitechief27:
Sorry about that. I just have some odd sensitivity to Japanese poetic form.

Dyson says:
04/22/2008 03:09

Blake: Email us at retroforce@destructoid.com.

And Qal is right. The name of the game is Dreammix TV World Fighters.

And don't worry EChief, Rev has an adverse reaction to everything.

ScottyG says:
04/22/2008 08:10

I never played the US versions of the NES Metal Gear games, only the MSX ones (thank you emulation and fan translation!). I knew Snake's Revenge was a completely different game than Metal Gear 2, but I didn't know there was that much of a difference with the original...

Question, assuming anybody's still looking at this: In the MSX Metal Gear, right before you find out Big Boss is in fact the bad guy he actually tells you over the Codec that the mission is aborted and to turn off your MSX game system immediately. Does he do anything like that in the NES version? I thought it was hilarious. :)

Oh, and David Hayter's name in the Metal Gear Name Generator is "Jockstrap Bison". ^_^

ScottyG says:
04/22/2008 08:13

Also, I can't remember if it was this show or Podtoid that brought it up... But couldn't the contest winner just send a private message through the site to the host of the show (Dyson/Rev)? That way you wouldn't have to worry about validating their identity. :)

foxhound009 says:
04/22/2008 08:54

did you know...
metal gera solid is the best game ever ever ever ever
ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever?
hmm?

Zero Atma says:
04/22/2008 11:03

If you go to the Metal Gear name generator and put in first name = Evil, last name = Chad, the name that comes up is Bohemian Manatee
Evil Concelmo = Kevlar Chimera

Irvine_frost says:
04/22/2008 11:58

i wanted a mention too, i hear the show since episode 1, and from Chile, i'm in the other side of the world for crying out loud!

also

Toph-lette should make a episode with topher, all ikaruga, all the time

Lotan says:
04/22/2008 13:29

WTF? Why spoil Cloverfield? The movie came out THIS year.

Dyson says:
04/22/2008 13:58

Scotty, I'd have to ask Chad or Colette. They're the only ones who have beaten the game, yet!

We ask that people email us for other reasons than just to say "oh hai, I won." Prize distribution, and whatnot. Also, I can't receive private messages over the network, no one knows why.

Lotan: Sorry, I haven't seen the movie, but I knew it had a monster in it, doesn't everyone?

Elitechief27 says:
04/22/2008 14:49

No worries, I was just kidding about the Rev thing. If anything, criticisim is good because it can make me better the haiku to make it even more respectable.

ScottyG says:
04/22/2008 19:35

Oh for sure. I just figured for security reasons it would make it easier for just contest winners to PM you. Although if you can't receive them it's kind of a moot point. ^_^

Lotan says:
04/22/2008 23:20

Dyson: Well, anything starting "at the end of..." is really a big spoiler. Btw, in Russia(which I'm from) movie was "translated" as "Monstro".

The Incredible Edible Egg says:
04/23/2008 12:32

I didn't even play rocky and bullwinkle and I can't unplay what I watched Tazar play. It was like Warioware without knowing what the controls are. Timed minigames where you're trying to find out what the controls are for 5 seconds and the last second goes to losing.

hygraed says:
04/24/2008 15:08

I just want to say that Chad Concelmo is thunderously handsome.

dipnlik says:
04/25/2008 03:12

Hi guys!

I created a video response to funran's question about who would win a fight, Snake or a dinosaur, you can watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttGQplSgrDQ

GreenDragon says:
04/27/2008 08:36

Hey you guys were talking about Metal Gear Solid on the Gameboy Colour this episode and about it's relation to the canon.
Well in Japan Metal Gear Solid on GBC is called
Metal Gear:Ghost Babel and it's basically an alternate universe to the Solid series on Playstation The Alternate canon contains:
Metal Gear:Ghost Babel,Metal Gear: Acid then Metal Gear: Acid 2.
So if Kojima wants to get around MGS4 being the "final" Metal Gear game he could technically go with the spin-off series as it's not the original canon.

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