Yeah, my best guess as a teenager was that they had a few different templates loaded in there, and depending on the combination of letters would generate them accordingly so the cursive actually flowed together instead of having gaps in between letters.
"I'm not going to lower myself to Kotaku's level and name off the only US movie she did (as Kotaku seems to do that when talking about Japanese Celebrities)"
Not only are you wrong, you're being rude about it. Stay classy! #speakup
You could enter your own name. So this guy just left his as the default.
What used to amaze me was that, for a game made in 1994, it would sign whatever name you put in. So if you put assface, it'd sign Assface in perfect, beautiful cursive. Not really sure how they did that.
But such a big part of the appeal of the series is the brutal brawling...lose that and you've got (supposedly) poor shooting and a lot of talking.... #speakup