{"id":1337897,"date":"2025-09-26T16:22:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yqB9oZf8cyFF7ZQQ8sWEcM"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:22:46","slug":"someone-made-the-metal-gear-solid-4-channel-surfing-section-into-a-game-and-its-absolutely-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/someone-made-the-metal-gear-solid-4-channel-surfing-section-into-a-game-and-its-absolutely-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone made the Metal Gear Solid 4 channel-surfing section into a game and it&#8217;s absolutely perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about over-the-air broadcasting. Tuning a radio has a way of making the world feel vast: picking up the clipped tones of a Beijing newscaster through waves of static, dialling into the current top 40 in Amman\u2014these are experiences that make you appreciate how enormous and varied the planet is, like scooping a thimble of water out of a churning ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The old days of TV were a similar story. There was nothing like idly channel surfing to remind you of what a diverse array of human experiences there are, from slick dramas to public access shows that seemed poised to collapse at any second. It&#8217;s gone now, with the advent of on-demand programming. Or it <em>was <\/em>gone, anyway. Now we have <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3323850\/Blippo\/\">Blippo+<\/a>, freed from the Playdate and now on PC.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"K9U3o5o3uRejnQyyiXMjSh\" name=\"20250926120039_1\" alt=\"A woman in a nurse's uniform waves off-screen. The chyron reads \"Clone Trois: Another familiar face - The nurses meet Gak City General's new surgeon\".\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/someone-made-the-metal-gear-solid-4-channel-surfing-section-into-a-game-and-its-absolutely-perfect.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Panic)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blippo+ is, from the time I&#8217;ve spent with it, not really a game. It&#8217;s more of an\u2026 interactive art piece? But wait! Don&#8217;t close the tab! It&#8217;s good! Really! It&#8217;s a channel-surfing sim, the conceit of which is that you&#8217;re a proud new subscriber to a space-based cable TV package.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got the whole shebang: an electronic TV guide to scroll through, a remote to mash when you get bored of whatever&#8217;s playing, and a veritable bounty of absolutely absurd FMV TV shows to feast your intergalactic eyes on.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s genuinely impressive how much Blippo nails the vibe of &#8217;80s\/&#8217;90s filler TV programming\u2014the Vaseline smear on the lens, the garish neon, jaunty tunes, make-up-caked actors, it&#8217;s all there and it&#8217;s all great whether you&#8217;re watching the latest hot music videos or some kind of Dantooine take on Celebrity Squares.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"VK6BRLYwdkemjqMLohAgSh\" name=\"20250926120508_1\" alt=\"A man and a woman look up into a camera.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/someone-made-the-metal-gear-solid-4-channel-surfing-section-into-a-game-and-its-absolutely-perfect-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Panic)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I actually had the game running on my TV screen and\u2026 it happened. I found myself sat on my sofa, slack-bodied, thumbing through the programmes on offer like I was bored after school in 1998. The magic was back, the world was young and wide again, and when I hit the game&#8217;s ersatz <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceefax\" target=\"_blank\">Ceefax<\/a> system\u2026 reader, I experienced a childlike glee of the sort I&#8217;ve not had since I started shaving.<\/p>\n<p>It helps that the game is actually well-acted, too. It would have been easy, I think, to fall into a trap of making all the actors kind of suck. This is a cable TV pastiche after all, right? But Blippo+ is smart to avoid that. I didn&#8217;t run into anything that could break the illusion the game carefully sets out to create, and thank god for that. For a while there, I was truly back in the last time anything was good: the 1990s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"f8ddac8b-5518-43ea-8823-1355f4974a25\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/someone-made-the-metal-gear-solid-4-channel-surfing-section-into-a-game-and-its-absolutely-perfect-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"f8ddac8b-5518-43ea-8823-1355f4974a25\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/sim\/someone-made-the-metal-gear-solid-4-channel-surfing-section-into-a-game-and-its-absolutely-perfect\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something about over-the-air broadcasting. Tuning a radio has a way of making the world feel vast: picking up the clipped tones of a Beijing newscaster through waves of static, dialling into the current top 40 in Amman\u2014these are experiences that make you appreciate how enormous and varied the planet is, like scooping a thimble of water out of a churning ocean. The old days of TV were a similar story. There was nothing like idly channel surfing to remind you of what a diverse array of human experiences there are, from slick dramas to public access shows that seemed poised to collapse at any second. It&#8217;s gone now, with the advent of on-demand programming. Or it was gone, anyway. 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