Posted by Bob Mackey
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That wasn't how the latest episode of Retronauts began--but it should have, damn it! Sorry, I got all worked up there. But there's a good reason to get excited: Hideo Kojima's Snatcher is an awesome game, and people are talking about it. On the Internet, no less! In the latest episode, Retronauts ringmaster Jeremy Parish leads an Interesting discussion of a game made at a time when Hideo Kojima wasn't the Bono of his respective industry. And as a bonus, the podcast also includes a brief chat with localization producer Jeremy Blaustein, who worked on the ahead-of-its-time English language version of Snatcher. If you can't believe the awesomeness, check check out the game's intro:
All of this Snatcher chatter got me thinking of the Policenauts (AKA Lethal Weapon in space) translation, which was announced as "complete" 20 months ago, but has not yet been released to the public. Since it's a game made by Kojima very much in the style of Snatcher, I'm dying to play it. Maybe we need to helicopter over some of those Mother 3 translation guys to whip them into shape.
Oh, and if you found Blaustein's behind-the-scenes Konami talk interesting, you might want to check out this podcast interview (archived on YouTube, since the original page appears to be down) that's extremely candid and often inflammatory. It's a nice little bit of dirt-dishing on one of gaming's most respected developers. The story about the actor who played James in Silent Hill 2 is especially hilarious.
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About Bob Mackey
For a brief period of time I was Bull from TV's
Night Court, but some of you may know me from the humor column I wrote for Youngstown State University's The Jambar, Kent State University's The Stater, and Youngstown's alternative newspaper, The Walruss. I'm perhaps most well-known for my bi-weekly pieces on Something Awful. I've also blogged for Valley24.com and have written articles for EGM, 1UP, GameSpite and Cracked. For all of my writing over the years, I have made a total of twenty American dollars. It's also said that I draw cartoons, which people have described with words such as "legible." I kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby and am looking to do so again in the future.
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