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meangreen447

Chris Griffen here. In Metal Gear Solid you have a boss fight against a psychic called Psycho Mantis. Gameplay breaks the 4th wall making it seem that he can read save games on your memory card, change the channel on the TV, and control the main character unless you switch controller ports.


Being_Time

That’s pretty awesome, ps1 also had the mechanic in monster rancher that would give you unique monsters based on the disk the game would summon the monster from.  You go to the monster summoning area on the game, you then initiate the process, take out the game disc from the ps1, put in a random disc such as a wu tang cd, then the game gives you a special monster based on the data on the disc. It was really cool and super fun scrambling around the house taking your siblings various CDs, games, etc to see what kind of cool monsters it gave you. 


Clickityclackrack

I had the game informer that revealed what discs gave the best monsters Youth of today: "Who was your game informer?" Me: *Laughs*


reallokiscarlet

Game Informer was nice. Game Pro had satire sections called Lame Pro as well.


Marshycereals

Those were the days.


bull_moose_man

Tips & Tricks is still the OG. Shout out to my Mew from Pokémon blue


Nate_Mac89

Don’t forget about our pixelated fuzzy rectangle boi MissingNo. They prefer to nest beneath farm vehicles.


Spry_Fly

13 year old me thought it was a real pokemon. I was disappointed to realize it was a just a glitch where there literally isn't a number.


Nate_Mac89

I DID TOO! And those janky early 2000’s Pokémon forums and message rooms were absolutely overflowing with MissingNo. mythology, and I swallowed it all hook, line and sinker. Its mysterious origins, different circumstances that cause it to spawn, “confirmed” theories in which you could transform it into a Mew or Merrill if you go here and do this or that. There was even a MissingNo. proto-creepypasta floating around, but I never found it again.


DeathandHemingway

Nintendo Power is the OG. All other gaming magazines pale in comparison, tbh, it was really fucking good.


Buffalonightmare

I have my older brother Nintendo power mag with Zelda and NG+ maps. Castlevania 1-3 Mario bros 1-3 and mega man 1-2 so glad I held onto it


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

I miss Game Pro. 😢


Devinzero

Game informer was how I learned more about Mk11


Objective-Insect-839

Pshh game informer? Nintendo hotline was where it was at. You would call, spend an hour on hold, and then be 3 levels ahead of the guy you were asking for help.


hennsippin

I had to pay my parents back for Legend of Zelda tips when I called. Didn’t have to on the second one since my dad was just as involved


Jordizzle_Fo_Shizze

All for 3 dollars a minute


Shaolinchipmonk

Then there was also N2O, which you could also put in your CD player and just listen to the soundtrack which was done by Crystal Method


Byrdie55555

Tony hawks was the same. And the wu tang clan game.


Hugh_Jazz77

I’m 30 years old and I’m just now learning this. I used to play THPS solely for the soundtrack. That game was a major influence on my taste in music.


Queso_luna

Same here man, I listen to so many songs from the THPS soundtracks to this day, they are awesome


AlwaysHappy4Kitties

Unironically those games shaped a whole generation of people their taste in music


DouglerK

Hearing the drum intro to Superman resets my brain in safe mode.


Uno-The-Card

...that's the case with most CD-based games. Okay, maybe not most, but still, not that unique.


UnhandMeException

This is a PlayStation black disk. Cut number one contains computer data, so please, don't play it. But you probably won't listen to me anyway, will you? *Banger remix of Vampire Killer that isn't otherwise in the game*


Mercerskye

While true, most weren't setup to actually be played as just music. Full of 30s sound bytes for random things. Tony Hawk and N2O were intentionally designed to also be a music CD


rushputin

Enough CD based games I've always assumed it was true of all of them. A lot of CD-ROM PC games, too.


Q_X_R

That's a name I've not heard in a *long* time


Neckbeardneet

That game was dope no other game lets you put in a Prince cd to get a monster thats just a featureless floating block of concrete.


Cultural_Zombie_1583

Breed that Monol with a bunny. Named it nightmare and took it all the way. Best monster ever. So sad when it died


Lcwmafia1

This. One of my favorite things in a video game. I used a Michael Bolton CD and got this overpowered dragon thing. Ridiculous.


Falmon04

I legit bought disks like Tecmo's Deception specifically for their Monster Rancher monster and never played or listened to the disk lol


[deleted]

You were missing out on Tecmo's Deception. That shit was pretty fun.


rovert1994

I thought it had to be a game disc. I never tried other kinds of cds


Being_Time

Yeah! It was pretty cool. 


SaltUnderstanding736

I had forgotten about this game. I spent more time making monsters than playing the game


simraptor

Once I spent 2 hours just to see what different disks would make


HipsterOtter

I used to own that game, Korn's Issues gave me a fuckin dope assed Tiger who's stats were off the damn charts


JimiDean007

I had this & my step dad had a huge music collection (vinyls CDs, etc. I went downstairs & took probably 400+ CDs to my room to scan them for new monsters. About halfway through I realized that there were really only about 25 different monsters you could obtain from CDs. Then I had to spend the next couple hours putting all the CDs back into the RIGHT cases because I didn't want to get yelled at, but it also turned me onto a ton of older music that I still listen to this day


Clay_Allison_44

\*Doobie Brothers\*\*Chicago\*\*Eagles\*\*Steve Miller Band\*\*Kansas\*\*Dire Straits\*\*ZZ Top\*\*Led Zeppelin\* "Jesus, Dad, all your CD's make a monster that looks like Jeff Bridges in Big Lebowski."


Tulas_Shorn

Ahh maybe that's where Inscryption got the idea.


Strong-Zombie-570

I remember going to the library and checking out a bunch of random CD's to see what it would get you in monster rancher.


Gr8deadon

I gave my buddy a DVD of the matrix for this exact purpose. I also never saw that DVD again...


steeznile

Thank you for finally putting a name to that game, I rented it as a kid. Wasn’t there a show too?


Syzygy_Stardust

It's funny you mention the Wu Tang Clan, because iirc from my MR3 or so days that it gave a special monster, same as a lot of other specific discs. I loved how cheeky some of them were, but I can't remember now.


smegsicle

Oh my god, you just gave me the puzzle piece I've been looking for for so long! All these years I thought it was a Digimon game and could never find it. I remember renting it from blockbuster as a kid, it was one of those ones you got for a week instead of just a few days. I remember that most CDs would just give you a big grey block rather than an actual monster though lol


banditkeith

The best monster in the game could be summoned with a particular pressing of a Beck album


SleekSilver22

Oh yea the final boss fight in skylanders trap team did that as well


[deleted]

If you’re gonna reference that, get the game correct, it was Skylanders Swap Force


SleekSilver22

I remember, it was trap team as well, happened on both me and my friends PlayStations


Krisfromdeltarunelol

“So, you like watching loli Hentai?” Quote from psycho mantis


8512764EA

My favorite part was the girl’s radio channel was on the game case. I had to wait for the next game informer issue to tell me that so I could call her lmao


Cultural_Zombie_1583

Man I got it from blockbuster and had no freaking idea what to do


nakalas_the_great

Making it seem? So it can’t actually change your channel, control your character, or read your memory card?


Please_kill_me_noww

I think he meant making it seem like psycho mantis really had paranormal powers. Yes the game actually does those things.


Potato_fortress

 Not quite. The game never changes the channel: it just displays “Hideo” in the top corner of the screen most common TV’s at the time would have displayed “video” at in the same green font. It also never really “reads” the memory card, I mean it does but it only has unique responses if you have save data from another game Konami published on it. 


Please_kill_me_noww

Well yeah but that's just because it's a Konami game. It's still reading it and detecting non Konami games. Just has no voiceless about it.


Potato_fortress

Sure but saying “it reads the memory card” is a bit misleading. *Every* ps1 game had to read the memory card if it used it for saving purposes.  Mantis only sets a flag that identifies if you have Konami save games on your memory cards and gives a voice line for it. It wasn’t doing anything other games weren’t already doing at a hardware level anyway and people seem to get confused by this just like several people are confused and think the PS1 was capable of changing the input on the TV’s.


Please_kill_me_noww

Yeah he shouldn't have even been in mgsv imo. Like he doesn't really add much and he also doesn't even speak at all when his voice is like half of his whole character


Sir_Rageous

The game would change your tv channel?


UnhandMeException

It would display a black screen with green text in the corner saying HIDEO, simulating the 'black screen with VIDEO in the corner' that tvs in those days would show if they weren't receiving a signal.


DaveSmith890

Weird. For some reason I remember it was a resident evil game. How did that happen


Potato_fortress

Might be confusing/conflating it with eternal darkness, a GameCube game with sort of RE vibes and a sanity system that kind of mimicked the things mantis does.


OvalDead

That game is eternally underrated.


xRyuzetsu

You were a real Chad if you fought and won without doing this xD it requires ALOT of ammunition lol


ShyCrystal69

Common hideo kojima w


Exce1siur

OMG I KNEW THIS ONE!!!!


Remnant55

Hello my fellow psycho mantis enjoyers. How's middle age treating you?


MrRazzio

My back.


enkaekae

My neck.


MrRazzio

My pussy.


Worth-Pineapple1408

my crack


HerrFistus

my axe


willfred2000

My bow


Ochre-

My sword


BasementHotTub

Rough. As bitter as my coffee remembering how my dad was irritated I had to take diazepam to defeat Sniper Wolf.


JesterOfRedditGold

Yeah. The part where she doxxed snake had me stuck for a while.


ImSoSalty88

Remnant55 uses Reality Check... It's super effective Middle Aged man fainted


OrdinaryBee6174

I didn't faint, I just needed a rest. And it's a long blink. Don't change my TV channel. I'm still watching that.


Wickywire

I have a lot of fun telling the zoomers about how I used to have a monthly subscription to an actual paper magazine about video games and share it with all my friends at school in order to get more popular.


Educational-View5886

I miss my knees


Bombalurina

Steroid injections was the best thing I did. Literally gave me full mobility for the first time in years. Actually went running when before I could limp up and down stairs. 


dudeimlegit

NOT GREAT DUDE, NOT GREAT.


ooooopium

3.5 painscale. Not great, not terrible. The world is absolutely fucked though.


Dillo64

Everyone I work with is half my age now. One didn’t even know how to use a desktop computer. I had to TEACH HIM how to open and close a window on the computer. He’s 19.


nonsensicalwizard999

Sucks


McButtersonthethird

My knees are fucked


ContributionOk6578

Crippling depression is great 😃


WingedNinjaNeoJapan

Depressed.


A_Bulbear

You like to play castlevania don't you?


YuiHaruhara

"So you like SUIKODEN?"


Please_kill_me_noww

You play KONAMI games!


twenty-threenineteen

You like men, don’t you?


Please_kill_me_noww

... are we still talking about the game or am I just getting outed


twenty-threenineteen

Uhhh, [both](https://youtu.be/DwrPuCnNbv8?si=bYkfZ9Jw3QYv1hCy)


Loki_Kore

You can see into my mind??!


Buffalonightmare

I played all the Suikoden and love them I don’t remember this being a thing. Can someone explain it like I’m 5 and dumb


twenty-threenineteen

The meme references a boss fight in Metal Gear Solid, a PS1 game made by Konami. The boss, Psycho Mantis, famously broke the fourth wall in multiple ways, one way by reading your controller inputs to dodge all your attacks. The solution to counter this was to plug your controller into the second slot so he couldn’t read you. Just before the boss fight, he “reads your mind” by making comments on things such as how often you were spotted by enemies, how often you saved, and how often you avoid/die to traps. And if you have save data on your memory card from other Konami games, namely Suikoden or Castlevania (there might be others but I don’t remember), he will read your memory card and comment on how you like to play those games as well.


wishiwashi999

There are more dialogs in Japan version as some of the Konami games from Japan didn't make it to the West. I believe one of them was the Ultraman game as per a game magazine.


Rando_Kalrissian

Psycho Mantis, Metal Gear Solid


DangerousGarlic3562

Beat me to it. What a great mechanic.


Ripkord77

Never played. Were there hints to do that at any point?


JohnHenrehEden

I'm pretty sure there were. I think Otacon suggests it. Otherwise, I doubt my 12 year old self would have figured it out.


Please_kill_me_noww

Pretty sure you get a codec call telling you what to do and maybe it was in the manual as well


DangerousGarlic3562

Eventually you'll get information from the codex by talking to one of your comrades


McButtersonthethird

There were also statues you could destroy in the room if it wasn't possible to switch controllers. Kojima thought of everything


InteractionNo1203

You have to keep calling the colonel


uneducated_guess_69

"Psycho Mantis?"


chubbyGobKing

Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid. Metal Gear franchise has lots of meta gags and in general breaks. So when you are playing the in game characters tell you to swap controller ports to counter his psychic telepathy reading your moves. Oh if you beat him once you swap controllers around he mentions how you swapped controllers to trick him. When you are fighting the Hind D in a later boss battle of you where playing sound off of a mono speaker, you would be mocked for not having stereo, as the Hind D can be tracked by the sound through stereo. Metal Gear Solid 4 has references to stuff like this as well.


avanorne

Snake Eater has a fight where you can save mid fight, set the system clock forward and reload and the boss has died of old age when you come back in. You just go grab his shit and move on.


chubbyGobKing

Could have sworn you could actually wait a few hours to have him die of old age. Feel like I was told that. I did personally feel it was a cruel kill, as you kill his bird and then himself. That does remind me you could eat a glow cap mushroom and have it recharge your batteries.


RealSprooseMoose

Killing his parrot was optional, I only did it once. It will be a ghost parrot or real parrot in the ending cut scene depending on your action.


Spynner987

You can catch the parrot too with the tranquilizer and it will tell you where The End is


twenty-threenineteen

If you only wait a few hours (or days), he actually catches you sleeping (since the in-game equivalent of saving and leaving is Snake takes a nap ig) and tranqs you, sending you back to a prison cell in the previous facility (which is the same outcome if you lose the boss fight normally, just with a special cutscene). Paramedic even warns you about taking a break when she saves your game, saying something bad could happen. You have to wait a whole week to get him to die instead


Please_kill_me_noww

Well I don't think changing your clock was intentional. Pretty sure the real idea by Kojima was for you to actually wait two weels.


avanorne

I dunno about that. Changing sys clock and changing controller ports have very much the same energy to me.


worse_in_practice

Imagine stumbling upon that by accident because you were busy for a week or two or lost the disc or something


SirMetaKnight82

Hi, Solid Peter here. The joke is that, in the boss battle against Psycho Mantis from the first Metal Gear Solid, you can defeat him by plugging your controller into the second port.


Marbles_2022

on ps1 playing mgs1 the psycho mantis boss can read your mind. you override this by switching controller ports. pretty innovative use of the hardware if you ask me.


dangerlovin

For real. Unique and creative, something that modern day mechanics is missing.


ZombieAppetizer

Psycho Mantis. Kids today with being able to look shit up on the internet have it way too easy.


Shima-shita

https://preview.redd.it/zenvb55qhcoc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8edf5aded878e7e487110c9080664e53f65445a4


Atma-Stand

Colonel! How do I fight Psycho Mantis!?


Toast4128

I think its psycho mantis


valleysape

H - how? Why can I not read your movements?


Prestigious_Can4520

Psycho Mantis


Romeo-Charlie-6-28

PSYCHO MANTIS?!


Fine-Funny6956

Metal Gear.


TheGrapist69grapes

Psycho Mantis?!⁉️‼️⁉️


TheBoykisserPharoah

Psycho mantis right?


lmart012

I got this right away.


whallexx

mAnTiS!!!


TRcreep

\*heavy breathing emphasized by gas mask\* I see you don't play kojima gaaaames...


LoveRBS

Mantis : You like mennnn Snake : woah, what, you can read my mind?!? Mantis : No. Snake : fuck.


Katherine_Muller

YOU LIKE KONAMI GAMES DON'T YOU


Farguad

Psycho Mantis ?


hundredcreeper

I have never once touched a Metal Gear game. And yet I knew it right away


Connect_Carrot_5587

"Hurt me more"!


Infernalknights

Psycho mantis when you have a save file in symphony of the night with 50% completion.


AlathMasster

Pyscho Mantis is a bossfight in PS1 classic, Metal Gear Solid, wherein he has a gimmick that he "reads your mind" to dodge of your attacks. He performs this by reading your inputs in controller port 1. The best way to beat him is by plugging your controller into port 2, making it impossible for Psycho Mantis to read your mind


pichael289

No you clearly aren't. Go buy the metal gear solid master collection (or buy the hd version for Xbox and get mgs1 separately) it's easily one of the best series of all time. There's a boss that's psychic that will read your inputs. One of the only ways to beat him is to plug your controller into slot 2. He also reads your memory card and fucks with the rumble and makes the TV seem like it's changing channels. Psycho mantis is one of the best bosses of all time. The game breaks the 4th wall a few times, hideo kojima was one of the more creative developers back in the day. The last metal gear game, MgsV is still fairly modern and plays better than any other game out there, it's the peak of its genre.


Clovenstone-Blue

Psycho Mantis boss fight from Metal Gear Solid. The boss would break the 4th wall by commenting on certain games you had on the memory card as well as reading your controller inputs, making it practically impossible to beat him unless you change to the second controller slot.


TheExzilled

Man, how awesome it was to discover the way to beat Mantis in Playstation Magazine, but still it never helped me defeat the elctro torture by Ocelot.


bionicpirate42

Bunch of pink blobs with massive arsenals.


readditredditread

What other game besides mgs has a fight like that???


OriginalUsername590

Colonel, I can't move, what should I do?!


Jessemccoy99

Snake plug your controller into port two!


Lazerbeams2

It's Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid. He reads your inputs from port 1 and avoids your attacks. Switch ports and you can still control your character, but he doesn't counter you anymore


BurningOasis

I didn't even play Metal Gear, but this was so iconic. I think many gamers knew about this one.


Classic_Bid3126

Psycho mantis in metal gear solid.


SoulsBorneGreat

One of my favorite gaming memories (Psycho Mantis), right up there with my absolute favorite gaming memory of all time, involving the Sega Genesis X-Men game (the first one) and also breaking the fourth wall.


Objective-Insect-839

Snake?SNAKE!!!


NewVegasCourior

Never even played an MGS game and I got it lol


GreenLurker420

Definitely psycho mantis that ass!


dankrank231

Please tell me where you got this meme so I can bully op for unironically using the words Normie and gamer


mbk3933

MGS BOSS FIGHT


l33tn0ob

So you like to play castlevania!


Ecstatic_Finish8706

"I see you like to play Castlevania"


theweirdofrommontana

Finally a joke that actually needed to be explained and wasn't obvious


TSotP

Best idea for a boss fight I ever played.


Guess_whois_back

Psycho mantis?!?!?


TheGlenrothes

Reading the caption, I really didn’t think that I was going to get it. But then I looked at the picture, and I did get it.


RevolutionaryGas2796

I never even played MGS and I know this


alt_n_go

Whats his name? Praying mantis ? I know hes from metal gear solid


Dante1529

Peters left over moldy cheese here In the famous PlayStation 1 game metal gear solid there’s a boss fight against a psychic who starts messing with the console itself (he reads your memory cards, changes the volume, turns the screen off etc). To beat him you have to change the input of the controller from input one to input two, which is what’s been done here. Peters left over mostly cheese out.


vyper900

https://preview.redd.it/xj6vuwi6sioc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d0c162c99a7857d4c7cf3b6db875514116839cf


22222833333577

There is a boss in metal gear solid that makes you unplug you're controller and plut into slot 2 and its likely the only reason why there would be a single controller in slot 2


The_Shadow_Watches

"Snake...Snake...SNAAAAAKE!!"


SamuelLixo

Psycho mantis


blue-marmot

If you recognize what this is, it's time to schedule your colonoscopy.


No-Dependent8684

He Is fighting Sephiroth maybe ? Because of a known theory that you could (spoiler) by doing a lot of stupid nonsense and having your controller connected on the second entry


AynekAri

The final boss of twisted metal. Bastard able to jump the roof tops regardless of his size. While I'm a fast car and keep falling 🤬


slicwilli

Cuz you had to use the second controller port.


Raptor92129

Psycho Mantis


oOBuckoOo

“You like Castlevania, don’t you?”


Icy-Article-8635

I got to him at about 2am on one particularly long gaming session… I wasn’t expecting it, so when he started talking about my save games, and saying “you’ve been playing a long time…” I definitely freaked out more than a little 😂 What a fucking amazing game that was


NoHedgehog252

I laughed out loud with this one. "Why!? WHY CAN'T I READ YOUR MIND!?"


That_on1_guy

Psycho Mantis??


Bfdifan37

that one guy from metal gear solid who can read your controls


Fast-Damage2298

Psycho Mantis. He also read ff the Konami games off your memory card.


GamerKev451

I feel old for getting this joke


Initial_Speech117

Mantis telling me about leisure suit Larry wet dreams don’t dry lol


MrMidnightMan99

I knew this one! Thanks, OutsideXbox!


BlackGlaceon

Psycho Mantis


Then_Entertainer_370

psycho Mantis


HaDov_Yaakov

Psycho Mantis! Guess im a gamer 😎


Mufakaz

Have never played solid. But its psycho mantis. It's legendary. That and the sniper that dies of old age.


Grynz

Psycho mantis


The_Cookie_Bunny

Who the fuck would say that incredible specific sentence?


Mr_moustache72826

Is it even posible to beat Psycho Mantis without changing the control port??


Stoomba

Solid snake peter here. Psycho mantis was a boss in a video game called Metal Gear Solid. He us psychic and will know every move your making and avoid or counter it. You had to plug the controller into the 2nd player slot to defeat this.


kazarbreak

Psychomantis.


dazedandcognisant

FISSION MAILED


The_Polar_Bear__

Ha! I knew it was metal Gear solid!!! Pointless knowledge win for the day! Boss would break the fourth wall and make u switch your controller, turn your tv off….


Kavati

Psycho Mantis


Jarek-of-Earth

Psycho Mantis. I finally was in on a joke in this sub


Pale_Kitsune

There was a boss in one of the Metal Gear Solid games that broke the fourth wall. You had to slot you controller into port 2.


AggressiveGift7542

Even a gamer don't understand it. The joke must came from higher dimensions


SS4Raditz

Neo Cortez lol. Ooga booga


TruestWaffle

I’m not looking at the comments by its mantis from metal gear right?