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From: Philip Gooch <philg@easynet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Metal Gear Solid bug?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:39:20 +0100
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Thanks Mark

Clearly, I'm getting too old for all this games playing stuff (30 next month)

Phil

Mark Green wrote:

>
>
>   The "HIDEO" bit is a really strange meta-joke.  The idea is that
> Psycho Mantis is changing the channel on your television set, putting it
> onto the video channel, so that he can get out of the way while you're
> distracted.  To make this even more confusing, they then made it display
> "HIDEO" instead of "VIDEO" as a pun (Hideo is Hideo Kojima, the director
> of the game)
>   How to beat him?  Well, it's a meta-joke, and it refers to a
> meta-puzzle..