Just look at the lips, squinty eyes and Wakka hair on this magnificent specimen. I wonder what female Japanese gamers would have thought of THIS Solid Snake data-laughing

Also, why does this very green and EXTREMELY 90s looking Meryl have some kind of Iron Age shortsword on her belt?

I have to know if this magazine was around for MGS2- their version of Raiden must have been transcendent. They would've probably drawn him to look like Dolph Lundgren as He-Man

EDIT

I just chortled at this goofy magazine cover illustration but apparently someone at Konami liked it enough that it was actually used as the cover for the manual of MGS: Integral in Japan

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  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    These were literally drawn by a comic book artist. Joe Madureira. He worked on Uncanny X-Men and he's also worked in video game development. He helped with the designs for Darksiders

    Now these covers are kind of goofy, but they're also pretty cool. The guy's a talented artist. He's just infused with the essence of the '90s

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, from what I read it looks like they hired actual comic book artists to draw each of these covers, and not like, the editor's nephew like I had assumed

  • vertexarray [any]
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    2 days ago

    Codec call between meryl and snake complimenting her on her dirk

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    2 days ago

    I had a subscription to PSM and I had this issue! I remember them doing an april fools joke where they photoshopped a nude lara croft into game screens claiming they found "the code", ah young me was wowed to say the least.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      2 days ago

      Looking at archived copies of this magazine at retrogamemags, it seems like PlayStation characters in 90s comic book art was their thing. These are just delightful- look at this Jamer Sunderland

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      Now that's the face of a man mourning his wife

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      2 days ago

      I believe that was a mod that got urban legend’ed into being a supposed secret code available in the base game. Which is funny as it’s not the only time in the 90’s an April Fools joke by a gaming magazine got spread as truth. EGM photoshopped Sheng Long into SFII screen shots as a joke and players fell for it.

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        2 days ago

        Yeah, there was a mod called Nude Raider that Eidos wasn't happy about, they tried to shut the site down.

        edit: I wonder if this inspired the damage control done by Rockstar over Hot Coffee in GTA: SA, iirc they initially tried to claim it was user created.

        • buckykat [none/use name]
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          1 day ago

          My memory was that the hot coffee thing was in the game as shipped but it could only be accessed with a mod

          • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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            1 day ago

            It was in the game, but Rockstar claimed it was created by modders. https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/hackers-behind-sex-change-says-grand-theft-maker/

            Hackers behind sex change

            Incredible headline out of context.

  • ObamaSama [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Man I’ve been in Japan for months and have yet to see a single MGS related thing, very sad. Meanwhile evangelion posters and figures are everywhere and I hear cruel angel’s thesis at least once a week. I thought MGS was pretty big but maybe just in the west? I even went to a paremovedo parlor hoping to find the fabled MGS3 paremovedo machine, no luck

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      1 day ago

      To be fair, there hasn't been a new game out in a while and the MGS3 pacheenko machine was like 10 years ago. I assume those things get replaced pretty regularly