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The best news from the best vid-gaming sites
-- Feb. 9, 1999 Vol. 1 No. 57 Salad Shooters --
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OtakuBoy loves you. OtakuBoy cares. That's why OtakuBoy
unleashes his virtual scrubbing bubbles onto all the
online console video game sites -- even on sites you've
never heard of before -- to scour out the best features,
reviews, previews, and news. Then OtakuBoy tells you where
to go get them.
OtakuBoy loves you. Now, love OtakuBoy back.
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Wowza! I canna' believe all de news a-reportin' today!
It's like someone took a biggie fries and put them in a
salad shooter and pressed "go." It's like Robin Williams
once said: "My knees explode and my socks fall off." It's
like I'm making absolutely no sense.
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D r e a m c a s t & S a t u r n (DC & SAT)
But maybe this does make sense. You see, Sega's always
said that the Dreamcast had, like, major upgrade options.
Major, man. Major! Like, for instance, DVD? Imagine this
scenario -- the PSX2 is announced and Sony's all happy that
not will their machine have 72 Megs of RAM (a current rumor,
see below OtakuBoyeees), it'll have DVD up de wazoo. Well,
then Sega smiles and says, "HAH! Take a look at our upgrade,
Dreamcasters! Full-on DVD and more RAM. HAH! Take that
Sony." And Sony says, "CURSE YOU SEGAAAAAAAAAH!" Anyway,
GameSpot has the rumor/news straight from an industry pub
that Sega's got some o' these upgrades floatin' around
their offices in Japan.
-- The Dreamcast to become a DVD machine? - News/Rumor?
-- http://headline.gamespot.com/news/99_02/09_vg_dvddc/index.html
Wow! I really want a DVD player. I hope that I'll be
able to rent Air Force One AND NiGHTS 2! Anyhoo, that's
more of less rumor ya know. Over the weekend, Sega sup-
posedly made some big announcement about all kinds of
Euro-Dreamcast stuff. Like what? Well, how about a BLUE
Dreamcast logo? How a list o' launch titles? The news is
ALL over the Internet today. (In fact, I don't know who
broke the story first. I heard it from SegaX first! but
it seems like this d00d in Germany, who runs a site called
GAME-OVER sent mail to nearly every single gaming site out
there.) Anyhoo, if you want to quick skinny, check out
FGNOnline's story. It's quick and lists all the pertinent
facts. Gaming-Age's news is a little more extensive, but
what's really important here are the hands-on impressions
of MONACO GP buried within. (Oh, and there's a bit about
the Euro Launch Date!)
-- More news? Euro logo Blue? 9/9/99? - News/Rumor?
-- http://www.segadreamcast.net/news/news_990208_eurodc.htm (I heard it from here first!)
-- http://www.fgnonline.com/web/fgn_archives.html?publish_date=1999-02-09
-- "DC Rumor Reach Warpspeed"
-- http://www.gaming-age.com/news2/february99/020899h.htm (more hands-on, quite extensive, include Monaco GP first-impressions)
Meanwhile, you want to check out SegaX even if you get
the rumor-news elsewhere. Cause the guys posted a mini-
interview with Sega Europe confirming some details, playing
'not sure' on others (WOW! Less than 97 no-comments?) Also,
9/9/99 seems to be a good Dreamcast Euro-date. But what
about America. Yeah, yeah. Everyone's been sayin' the same
date, but it seems like the Associated Press has a different
idea. SegaX has the summary of the AP story, and I've in-
cluded a link to the AP story belooooooooow.
-- SegaX chats with Sega Europe - Mini-Interview (confirms color, but not modem)
-- http://www.segadreamcast.net/news/news_990208_modem.htm
-- Maybe AP had release date right? - News (November?)
-- http://www.segadreamcast.net/news/news_990208_usdclaunch.htm
-- http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?FRONTID=TECHNOLOGY&STORYID=APIS6QV6H180
HARK! Are you still trying to download those Sonic menus
in English. STILL! Well, Sonic Zone tries to help. And, wow!
They even have screen shots and sound clips to aid you
along. (Boo HOO! I can't seem to understand the darn sound
clip!)
-- More on Sonic English menus - Feature/Sound Clips
-- http://szone.simplenet.com/soniczone/news/feb99/020899a.html
Yo yo yo! A shout out to all my Anime-lovin' homeys kick-
in' up on that west siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide! (Wow,
I think that actually sounds pretty good. Send criticisms to
Otakuboy@bigfoot.com.) Anyway, SENTIMENTAL GRAFITTI is
comin! Honest and fer true! Just as ole Sega X, who seems to
have a big lock on the news today.
Whoops! I'm not explaining myself fully. You see,
SENTIMENTAL GRAFITTI is what they call one of those dating
games. You know! You pick your opposing (or simliar) gender,
the prospective dates all scroll across the screen in the
old Atari 2600 TARGET FUN type action. You shoot questions
as them as they go by -- "Wanna go on a date," "Wanna dance"
-- and after they all turn you down, the game's over. It's
quite the challenge.
-- Sentimental Grafitti is comin' - News
-- http://www.segadreamcast.net/news/news_990209_sentgraf2.htm
Yeah, yeah, yeah! REDLINE RACER is comin' to DC. It's the
super motorcyclin' arcade game. And SegaX has shots.
-- Redline Racer is comin' - News/Shots
-- http://www.segadreamcast.net/news/news_990208_redlinedc.htm
Meanwhile, IGNDreamcast has actually updated their site
two days in a row. I think Christ will be comin' soon. Any-
hoo, the ole boys got to check out POWER STONE recently,
and they have shots taken from a shoulder mounted camera.
Hehehehe... It's kinda fun to watch.
-- Videos of PowerStone (Arcade) in action - Preview
-- http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/6799.html
What's this? An IGN64 link in the DC section? Am I in-
sane? Am I trolling? Do I want to start a flame war? NO!
You see, at the very bottom of the READY 2 RUMBLE preview,
is a tiny note: It's comin' out for Dreamcast!
-- Ready 2 Rumble Boxing - Preview
-- http://ign64.ign.com/news/6828.html
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P l a y S t a t i o n (PSX)
I hope you didn't get all nervous over that silly news
about Dreamcast bein' all upgradable and stuff to DVD! Don't
worry about yo' pretty little heads. Cause word on PSX
Nation that the PSX2 is gonna come with 72 FRIKKIN MEGS!
(FRIKKEN MEGS are actually 156 pin chips that really
scream! ;) Ah, well, it's all a rumor anyway.
-- 72 Megs o' RAM!? - Rumor
-- http://www.psxnation.com/news/020999a.html
YOW! Super! SUPER! S U P E R ! feature on the POCKET
STATION over on Gaming-Age. So super, I like read the whole
thing nine times before I managed to simply copy the URL
and put it in O.O. Right. Right. Anyhoo, this feature goes
over everything PocketStation, from the outside all the way
to what you can do if you gots STREET FIGHTER ZERO 3. The
d00dz even have MP3 filez of the sound this little puppy
works up. Definitely worth the click.
-- The PocketStation - Feature
-- http://www.gaming-age.com/specials/pocketstation/
IGNPSX has a super ROLL CAGE interview. They ask the
game a lot of questions, but there's not too much dialouge
really. I mean they ask the game a question and it sits
there... playing with itself. (Demo mode.) So, they got
ahold of Chris Gibbs, Managing Director (he manages to
direct). The interview's all about ATD, their gameography,
how ROLL CAGE came out about (oh, you Sega Rally, you...
you inspire the mighty game o' out lives). And always re-
member that OtakuBoy brought you news of the FIRST Roll
Cage interview, which I seen over on PlayStationFan. So,
I went there and found they have a new preview AND REVIEW!
And they're both on the same page! That's JUST JUST JUST
UN-NATURAL!
-- The Roll Cage Interview - Interview
-- http://psx.ign.com/news/6792.html
-- http://www.playstationfan.com/preview79.htm (Preview AND Review)
Is NAMCO on the fence about which Next-Next-Generation
console to support? Will they support two? Three? Will they
create their own console? Will they leave the games busi-
ness all together and go into oven-mitts? (Hey, the Strohs
company just left the beer business, so anything's possi-
ble.) Anyway, all these questions and MORE in Kingboxer's
Rumors on PSXMax.
-- Kingboxer's Rumors - Feature (Namco on the fence?)
-- http://www.consolecity.com/psx/rumors/
Ah, wouldn't life be grand if U.S. game companies adver-
tised new games on the radio. Imagine driving down the
street, bopping to Barry Manilow (wheeeeeeeen willl iiiiii
hold yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou, again?)
and a FINAL FANTASY ad pops on? Gosh, it might just like
sound like the one over on Gaming-Intelligence!
-- FF8 Ad - News (Audio File)
-- http://www.gaming-intelligence.com/psx/ff8/ff8media19.html
Yo! Yo! Yo! Another shout out to all my Anime-lovin'
homeys doing that thing over on the west siiiiiiiiiiiiiide!
(Ah, it doesn't sound good anymore.) Anyway, word from
Magic Box is that Konami's TOKIMEKI MEMORIAL VOL. 3 is
comin' to PlayStation reeeeeel soon.
-- For all my Anime-lovin' fans - News (Tokimeki Memorial Vol 3 is comin')
-- http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/5534/gaming.htm
-- "Konami's Tokimeki Memorial..."
And HEY! More stuff on Gaming-Intelligence. This time
it's-ah movies and a big preview of the RPG GUARDIAN'S
CRUSADE! And Gaming-Age has new pics and a preview of
EHRGEIZ!
-- Guardian's Crusade - Movies/Preview
-- http://www.gaming-intelligence.com/psx/guardc/guardc.html
-- It's Ehrgeiz - Pics/Preview
-- http://www.gaming-age.com/news2/february99/020899j.htm
Really, now. Is BUST-A-MOVE '99 all that and a bag of
Frito Scoops? Honest! Well, I can't tell what IGN is sayin'
in this preview on IGNPSX. It's a bit campy, a bit satiri-
cal, a bit cynical, a bit humorous, a bit callous, a bit
bittersweet, a bit sad, a bit loony, and a bit -- just a
touch -- anxious.
-- Bust-A-Move '99 is a bag of Frito Scoops? - Preview
-- http://psx.ign.com/previews/11069.html
Have you ever wanted to make your own fighter? Hey, that
sounds like a song Olivia Neutron-Bomb once sang: "Have
you never wanted to make your own fiiighter! Have you never
wanted to make a super stronger character that could grind
all other characters into the ground. Have you never let
someone else be strong?" Anyhoo, Game Informer previews
FIGHTER MAKER! And I'm a might scared. I remember all those
"construction sets" on previous computers that didn't go
all that well. OH, this one was pretty cool: Anyone remember
ADVENTURE CONSTRUCTION SET?
-- Fighter Maker - Preview (Like Fighting Construction Set.)
-- http://www.gameinformer.com/pviews/feb99/fighter/fighter.html
N i n t e n d o 6 4 (N64)
When E.F. Hutton talks, readers of this newsletter don't
listen. But when Nintendo talks, they do. And Nintendo has
spoken. (Tis time for another Mighty Lips comment, brought
to you by the prose-wranglers at Videogamers.com.) Nintendo
opened their mighty lips and said that POKEMONSNAP and
POKEMON STADIUM will come on N64! Woohoo! Details on IGN64.
-- It looks like PokemonSnap and Pokemon Stadium (not to mention Mario Golf) are coming. - News
-- http://ign64.ign.com/news/6807.html
Are you dying for ANY info regarding Capcom's plans for
the N64! Are you searching Capcom's Web site over and over
again for any mention of the N64? Well, wait no more, true
believers! For Nintendojo, the Web site of Nintendo record,
has a mini-interview. It's real small, d00dz. "Do you have
time to talk?" No. >Click<
-- Capcom and N64! Focus on E3 - Mini-Interview
-- http://www.nintendojo.com/news/infocus/1999/february/0208.htm
3DO... Or not 2 3DO. IGN64 previews ARMY MEN: SARGE'S
HEROES! (Why is it that all the Sarge's Heroes are dead?)
Anyway, a big preview over on IGN64. Also on IGN 64, take
Take Mario Kart 64. Now add Looney Tunes characters and
backdrops. Stir. Now you have LOONEY TUNES: SPACE RACE.
At least this is what IGN64 says in their preview of it.
-- Army Men: Sarge's Heroes! - News/Preview (3D0)
-- http://ign64.ign.com/previews/1944.html
-- Looney Tunes: Space Race - Preview (Kinda Acme Mario Kart 64, yah, yeah.)
-- http://ign64.ign.com/previews/10074.html
Hey! How about a game that comes to America with abso-
lutely NO change... no dialogue changes, no Amercianization
o' the plot. Nothing. Just a straight port. (Well, with a
but of subbing for good dialogue measure.) That's GOEMON'S
GREAT ADVENTURE (not it's real name, I'm protecting the
innocent). Game Information has a preview. Check out the
wacky URL!
-- Goemon's Great Adventure - Preview
-- http://www.gameinformer.com/pviews/feb99/goemon'sga/goemon'sga.html
February 8 is/was MARIO PARTY day! Yep, the weird and
wacky party/parlor (?) game debuted. I have the press re-
lease from Nintendo.com, which has a decent introduction
to the game, and a review over on Nintendo Underground.
Well, it's more like a preview. "Hello, it's me! Wario! It
should be my party, so I'll cry if I want to."
-- February 8, Mario Party Day - Press Release (Decent introduction to the game.)
-- http://www.nintendo.com/corp/press/020899c.html
-- http://www.nintendorks.com/previews/carl/mario_party/ (Have a review)
I betcha didn't know Zelda 64 had its own audio CD! I
bet! I bet! Well, Soundtrack Central keeps up with all that
stuff. And heck, check out some of the other CDs about.
Some even have MP3 samples!
-- Did you know there was a Zelda 64 audio cd? - News
-- http://www.soundtrackcentral.com/news/index.htm#zelda64arranged
OH! Don't forget the online Mario Party at Nsider on
Nintendo.com! It's comin' soon! SOON! SOON! Check out the
link below for the info. You can win stuff and everything.
They say they'll have "Cyber-jocks." Do you think one'll be
Howard Stern. "Take off your clothes! Robin, is that wrong?"
"heheheheheheheheheheheh"
-- The Online Mario Party *Win Stuff!* - Announcement
-- http://www.nintendo.com/nsider/index.html
G a m e B o y C o l o r (GBC)
The BIGGEST news for the GameBoy Color today is that
Activision is bringing ASTEROIDS over to the little color
portable that can. I saw this story all over the place.
TONS of sites. But only one I ran across had PICS! Give it
up for GBCdojo!
-- Here comes Asteroids - News/Shots
-- http://www.nintendojo.com/gbcdojo/
-- "Rock Your Solar System"
Hmmm... I don't remember why I'm including this... OH
yeah, the guys over at GameBoy Euro-Asia said that this
game was like super popular when it came out. So this new
one YU-GI-OH!!!! Dual Monster II, should be even whackier
and MORE popular. So, maybe you know about it, eh?
-- Yu-Gi-OH! Dual Monsters II - News
-- http://gameboy.s-one.net.sg/news_flash.htm
-- "As expected, work..."
ASCII's new DERBY STALLION will have your 64GB hook-up.
Use up to FOUR GBCs to place your bets. (Perhaps one of
them can be the bookie! Check out the story on GameBoy
Euro-Asia.
-- ASCII's Derby Stallion to use 64GB - News
-- http://gameboy.s-one.net.sg/news_flash.htm
-- "ASCII is expected..."
And in the review corner today, Graphics GOOD!, Gameplay
BAD! That's what Console Domain says about CARROT CRAZY. And
I gotta admit, those graphics look some spiff! Check out
Console Domain for the review.
-- Carrot Crazy (Graphics Good. Gameplay BAD!) - Review
-- http://www.consoledomain.com/gameboy/reviews/Carrot_Crazy.html
M u l t i - F o r m a t & M i s c
Oh my God! ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod
ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod --
a REAL FINAL FANTASY MOVIE CLIP! HOOO FRAK! SOMEONE HELP
ME! MY EYES ARE LEAKING! LLEEEEEEAAAKKING!!!! HELP! Ahem.
I have FOUR links to the clip! Slow server? QUICK! Click
on another!
-- A FINAL FANTASY MOVIE CLIP!
-- http://www.gaming-age.com/media/fftmclip.mpeg
-- http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bkshoema/fftmclip.mpeg
-- http://www.gaming-intelligence.com/features/ffmovie/media3/fftmclip.mpeg
-- ftp://wahoo.cx/fftmclip.mpeg
GameSpotUK interviews Peter Molyneux. He's the d00d that
used to head BullFrog, but now he's like at Lionhead. They
talk about the state of gaming, where the industry can go
and blah, blah, blah. Meanwhile, he also tired of the rising
cost of French Fries. (Actually, that's not in there. I'm
just grasping at straws. The truth: It's a decent interview
if you like Peter Molyneux. And who doesn't, right?)
-- Peter Molyneux - Interview
-- http://www.gamespot.co.uk/interviews/1998/milia/46.html
Now THIS is a good interview. Tommy Tallarico. Do you
know him? Well, I gotta admit that I didn't until now. He's
like a MEGA videogame-music composer. The interview at
Dimension-S goes all through the American videogame music
industry, the genres that are best and worst with their
sounds and more. Plus, a lot of rumors and tidbits. COOL!
-- Tommy Tallarico, videogame music composer - Interview
-- http://www.dimension-s.com/transmissions/features/tallarico_interview_feb_99/index.htm
AAAH! SNK vs. Capcom comin' to the ARCADE?! NO WAY! Both
SegaX and Gaming-Age carry the news. It's an arcade game,
ya know. Arcade. But still, I'd forgo my Dreamcast one more
month for a turn at KING O' FIGHTERS vs. CAPCOM!
-- WOW! SNK vs. Capcom?!?!?! - Arcade News (King o' Fighters and Capcom games.)
-- http://www.gaming-age.com/news2/february99/020999a.htm
-- http://www.segadreamcast.net/news/news_990208_snkcap.htm
Gamecenter? Builds the PERFECT gaming system? Is this
some sort of sick joke? But, NO! It's not! They really do
try and they go after the look o' the console and every-
thing. It's kinda ... well ... obsessive, really. I LOVE
IT!
-- GameCenter builds the perfect gaming system - Feature/Sick Joke?
-- http://www.gamecenter.com/Consoles/Features/Perfect/
Ok, ok. I admit this is more of a PC thing. But, JEEZ!
It's JAY WILBUR, man! The d00d that did Doom. That's a pret-
ty cool sentence, I think. The d00d that did Doom. Note to
Self: Send to Reader's Digest. Anyway, check out the inter-
view.
-- JAY WILBUR, man! - Interview
-- http://www.game-online.com/cfdocs/site/features/epic/main.htm
It's spiritual in a way. See the job. Do the job. Build
the sub. Fight the sub. It's a preview of the game DIVE
ALERT for Neo Geo Pocket! Check out GameFAN! I'M NOT BOY!
-- Dive Alert (Build a Sub. Fight a Sub.) - Preview (NGPocket)
-- http://www.gamefan.com/newhotinfo/hotinfo.asp?storyid=307
And upcoming for Bandai's WonderSwan is super new WONDER
STADIUM. (IT's soooo wonderful!) Check out Gamers Republic
for the slap-happy preview. Also, bunches of Wonderswan game
shots on Magic Box.
-- Wonderswan's Wonder Stadium - Preview (Baseball game)
-- http://www.gamersrepublic.com/02_08_1999n5.html
-- And bunches of Wonderswam game pics - Shots
-- http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/5534/gaming.htm
-- "A number of new screen shots are released..."
And you're like super excited about the news that STREET
FIGHTER ZERO 2 figures are out. Right? Well, I AM! Check
out National Console Support for the pics. (Figures in
boxes never photog well.)
-- Street Fighter Zero 2 - Figures
-- http://www.ncsx.com/ncs020899/sfz2.htm
Cherrios, folks! (Rice Krispies, Cocoa Puffs, etc.)
See a cool story? cool site? Send it to me!
Otakuboy@bigfoot.com
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