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Well, It's Slave, but Slv had to do, as I'm only allowed to type 3 letters.
3 letter name entry. Back in the days of Smash TV being in the arcades, and that Sega dome thing that played a western style game with holograms, three letters was the norm. It's probably not true but you can imagine that in the days of 16 bit being next-gen and the Neo Geo was for lottery winners, three letters on a 10 name list was pretty impressive.
Not any more. Technology is way ahead of letting people only enter 3 letters. Loads of games let you set up profiles with 10, so why do some games still only allow 3?
You could say that arcade games, like Tekken, only allow 3 to add to the feel that the game is an arcade game, like you were playing down the local leisure centre or when the fair was in town, and as a lot of home conversions of arcade games that allow more than 3 characters still only allow 3 in their arcade counterparts the 3 letters give a feel for the arcade.
But in the home, 3 letters isn't enough. In my house, we have an Ali, an Alan and an Adam. There is a 3 letter way around this, but then what if we had mates called Alistair, Alain, Alanis? I've got a mate called Steve Alinson...
And what about the people that have names that can't be shortened to 3 letters? Pete, Paul, Troy, Mike, Slave, etc? What are they supposed to do?
Come on, game companies, at least give us 4, then some of us might be able to use vowels!
3 letter name entry. Back in the days of Smash TV being in the arcades, and that Sega dome thing that played a western style game with holograms, three letters was the norm. It's probably not true but you can imagine that in the days of 16 bit being next-gen and the Neo Geo was for lottery winners, three letters on a 10 name list was pretty impressive.
Not any more. Technology is way ahead of letting people only enter 3 letters. Loads of games let you set up profiles with 10, so why do some games still only allow 3?
You could say that arcade games, like Tekken, only allow 3 to add to the feel that the game is an arcade game, like you were playing down the local leisure centre or when the fair was in town, and as a lot of home conversions of arcade games that allow more than 3 characters still only allow 3 in their arcade counterparts the 3 letters give a feel for the arcade.
But in the home, 3 letters isn't enough. In my house, we have an Ali, an Alan and an Adam. There is a 3 letter way around this, but then what if we had mates called Alistair, Alain, Alanis? I've got a mate called Steve Alinson...
And what about the people that have names that can't be shortened to 3 letters? Pete, Paul, Troy, Mike, Slave, etc? What are they supposed to do?
Come on, game companies, at least give us 4, then some of us might be able to use vowels!
Smash TV is still in my top 5 games ever, along with Speedball 2. The megadrive version was cack in comparison to the snes from the genius controls...
I had the high score by a mile on the arcade at the local swimming pool, it wasn't beated until they took the machine away. I tried to buy it but I diddn't have enough money at the time.
I had the high score by a mile on the arcade at the local swimming pool, it wasn't beated until they took the machine away. I tried to buy it but I diddn't have enough money at the time.
Still got it for my SNES. I vividly remember a foolish Megadrive owner coming up to me and saying "My version is better than yours."
Then I showed him the superb control system using the SNES pad and he was silenced. Forever.
Then I showed him the superb control system using the SNES pad and he was silenced. Forever.
Super Smash TV.
Damn, that game was class...
Damn, that game was class...
Well, It's Slave, but Slv had to do, as I'm only allowed to type 3 letters.
3 letter name entry. Back in the days of Smash TV being in the arcades, and that Sega dome thing that played a western style game with holograms, three letters was the norm. It's probably not true but you can imagine that in the days of 16 bit being next-gen and the Neo Geo was for lottery winners, three letters on a 10 name list was pretty impressive.
Not any more. Technology is way ahead of letting people only enter 3 letters. Loads of games let you set up profiles with 10, so why do some games still only allow 3?
You could say that arcade games, like Tekken, only allow 3 to add to the feel that the game is an arcade game, like you were playing down the local leisure centre or when the fair was in town, and as a lot of home conversions of arcade games that allow more than 3 characters still only allow 3 in their arcade counterparts the 3 letters give a feel for the arcade.
But in the home, 3 letters isn't enough. In my house, we have an Ali, an Alan and an Adam. There is a 3 letter way around this, but then what if we had mates called Alistair, Alain, Alanis? I've got a mate called Steve Alinson...
And what about the people that have names that can't be shortened to 3 letters? Pete, Paul, Troy, Mike, Slave, etc? What are they supposed to do?
Come on, game companies, at least give us 4, then some of us might be able to use vowels!
3 letter name entry. Back in the days of Smash TV being in the arcades, and that Sega dome thing that played a western style game with holograms, three letters was the norm. It's probably not true but you can imagine that in the days of 16 bit being next-gen and the Neo Geo was for lottery winners, three letters on a 10 name list was pretty impressive.
Not any more. Technology is way ahead of letting people only enter 3 letters. Loads of games let you set up profiles with 10, so why do some games still only allow 3?
You could say that arcade games, like Tekken, only allow 3 to add to the feel that the game is an arcade game, like you were playing down the local leisure centre or when the fair was in town, and as a lot of home conversions of arcade games that allow more than 3 characters still only allow 3 in their arcade counterparts the 3 letters give a feel for the arcade.
But in the home, 3 letters isn't enough. In my house, we have an Ali, an Alan and an Adam. There is a 3 letter way around this, but then what if we had mates called Alistair, Alain, Alanis? I've got a mate called Steve Alinson...
And what about the people that have names that can't be shortened to 3 letters? Pete, Paul, Troy, Mike, Slave, etc? What are they supposed to do?
Come on, game companies, at least give us 4, then some of us might be able to use vowels!