Philips Magnavox Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution Trigger Happy - Manual (Page 261)

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Fig. 15. Sonic the Hedgehog: cat and mouse (from Sonic
Adventure, ‰ Sega 1999)
More proportionally humanoid “good
characters”—such as Lara Croft, Jin Kazama from
Tekken 3, or Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid—
work (on this purely static, visual dimension) in a
slightly different way, in that they borrow from
cinematic conventions of costume and coolness. It is
almost certainly no coincidence that Metal Gear
Solid’s cigarette-loving, husky-voiced hero shares one
of his names with Kurt Russell’s character in Escape
from New York, Snake Pliskin. Jin Kazama in Tekken