I’m surprised you mentioned the clock in ratchet and clank 2 but not the insomniac museums. There are portals in ratchet and clank 2 and 3 in kind of obscure spots (on top of a fountain on planet boldan in 2 and off the main path by some chasms in metropolis in 3), and they do nothing most of the time. However, if you stand on the portals at 3am system time, the portals activate and you can go to the insomniac museums. They have things like concept art and places the devs used to test vehicles and all sorts of weird stuff.

I love these videos because  Ratchet and Clank or Spyro always come up. It's like that meme. The youtuber's barely disguised R&C/Spyro hyperfixation 😂

Actually I ONLY check the time on my dreamcast. Multiple times a day I have to boot that bad boy up. It's quite a hindrance really

Calendar Man in an Arkham game has things to say on specific dates
There's a dating sim for Saturn that uses it to tell how long it's been since you interacted with the girl last, and she gets annoyed if it was too long

13:05 gave me alot of nostalgia with the minish cap ost in the background

love the KH music in the vids!! keep up the work man!

So many brand new sentences in the Seamen segment

I always thought this was an underutilized mechanic in games. Considering how effective it is in Animal Crossing, it's weird how only a few other games actually use it.

10:42 Or, you know, you could just use the magnet train to travel between Kanto and Johto at anytime...

I made sure to hit that notification button my guy

Snake ❤️

I can remember right before MGS 5 came out it was rumored that it would have a 24 hour cycle so that when you played the game in the real world that's the time it would be in the game, it would've been something unique but probably annoying at the same time, if you could only play the game at night for some reason like a weird work schedule you probably wouldn't want it to be night time every playthrough, it could've worked if you had the option to turn it off if you didn't like it though.

Let's gooo ShanBLAINia

Fantastic topic! So much fun to reflect on a niche mechanic that reaches so far across gaming history and genres :)

6:46 I feel like there's a Thoth daughter/gay son joke somewhere in here

hell yea

22:40 recording on an old webcam gives charm no modern camera could replicate imo, great video btw

Great video 🐝

I'm glad to be a new sub. I wish you a wonderful new year! See you when you post.

Thanks for the video! I'm making a game that uses a realtime clock and this was helpful