This Day In Gaming History – Metal Gear is Born – July 7, 1987

A red exclamation point flashes above my head, the timer starts ticking down as I run for cover, there are guards with fully automatic guns everywhere, and I’m a Snake. If you haven’t guessed by now I’m talking about Metal Gear. Today marks the twenty-eighth anniversary for Hideo Kojima’s epic saga. This game series is […]

Terry Randolph’s Top 20 Video Game Characters – (#20-11)

At Last Token Gaming, we want our readers to get an idea of who we are as writer’s. We came up with the idea of having our writers come up with a person Top 20 Video Game Characters list of their own, and posting it on a weekly basis. Last week, fellow staff writer Marshall […]

Marshall Garvey’s Top 20 Video Game Characters (#11-20)

By Marshall Garvey 20.  Link – The Legend of Zelda series While I tend to gravitate towards supporting characters in games (as well as in movies and television), any list not featuring Link as an all-time great and/or favorite is probably hard to take seriously. Aside from his signature battle cries, Link conveys the breadth of his […]

Marshall Garvey’s Top 20 Video Game Characters (#10-1)

By Marshall Garvey 10.  Otacon – Metal Gear Solid series “Snake? SNAKE? SNNNNNNAAAAAKKKKKEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!” In the annals of gaming sidekicks, no one is as loyal, intelligent, eloquent, and hilarious as Hal Emmerich, aka Otacon. Found hiding in a locker in the original 1998 game, he soon becomes Solid Snake’s trusty assistant upon learning that the Metal Gear project […]