[UPDATE] Kanye clarified that it was The Super Spy, not Spy Hunter, that he played at his mom's house.
correction, the name of the Neo Geo game I was referring to was The Super Spy
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 27, 2016
The original story is below. Carry on...
Kanye West is doing that Twitter thing again--and this time he's talking about video games. First, West says the name of his The Life of Pablo successor is tentatively titled "Turbo Grafx 16." He has a reason for that, and had a lot more to say on the subject of video games Friday night. Scroll down to see all the tweets.
Kanye said he was on "some super-nerd vibes" Friday night and that's why he revealed the working title of his next album.
My next album is titled "Turbo Grafx 16" as of now…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 27, 2016
just on some super nerd vibes… one of my favorite gaming systems when I was a kid…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 27, 2016
He was a big fan of 1989 shoot 'em up Blazing Lazers, apparently.
Blazing Lazers was probably my favorite game on that console …
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 27, 2016
And did you know the man "Mali" referenced in the Kanye song "Drive Slow" owned a Neo Geo?
My boy Mali that I spoke about on the song Drive Slow actually had a Neo Geo in real life bro…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 27, 2016
Kanye ended his video game Twitter spree in probably the best way possible, with this one:
We actually played Spy Hunter at my mom’s house!!!
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 27, 2016
Kanye is making a video game himself. As revealed at his Madison Square Garden event earlier this month, it's called Only One: The Game. He showed off a beautiful trailer that features his mom traveling to heaven by riding a flying horse and growing angel wings.
The rapper is clearly a fan of video games. Before this, he tweeted about microtransactions, while he showed up at E3 2015 last summer and played Star Wars Battlefront and Halo 5: Guardians, among others.
We'll have more information on Only One when it is made available, presumably in tweets from Kanye.