Yes, really! Pretty cool stuff... As the title says both of these games were canceled back in 1995 or so and were never released, and before now they had not been available to anyone besides the tiny number of people with the prototype boards.
Virtua Hamster works on real hardware or some emulators (it works in Kega for instance). There are no races or anything, but you can run around in the connecting tubes (Habitrails? :)) that you would be racing in, and look at the option mode options, none of which have been implemented yet. Good stuff... this would have been an awesome game if finished, I think! :( Oh, and the polygonal 3d tunnels and characters look great. All this really needed (needs?) is opponents, a goal (block off tunnels not in the current race or something, and have an end point?), the splitscreen mode, and the full controls implemented and it'd be a pretty good game, I think. I mean, it's basically a futuristic racing game with hamsters on hoverboards in Habitrail tunnels. Just from the concept you know it's awesome. :) There are videos of this on Youtube now, of course, so go watch some footage. :) (There's only one song ingame that's a short loop and there are no sound effects, but oh well... given that it's unfinished, it's just great that there was a playable build at all! :))
X-Men: Mind Games only works fully on actual hardware; the music and menu works in Kega, but you can't see the in-game graphics or play. It does have great music that sounds a lot like the style of the Genesis Batman & Robin stuff, really. Someday emulators will probably play the game... there is a video of it up on Youtube now though, so you can look at how it plays there. Again, very nice graphics... not sure if the gameplay looks fun though, going by the video. It looks decent, but not great. It wasn't finished of course, though, so it had time to improve... and the graphics and design look extremely good for the system! 3d graphics with 2d sprite objects? Very impressive work. Right now though, only people with flashcarts can actually play it. At least there is that video.
... A lot of other protos have come out recently, thanks to someone who owns a lot of them and is willing to release dumps of them if paid enough, but I don't think that any others are unreleased games.
Overall of course overall the 32X should never have been released at all, but given that it was, Sega needed to put a bit more effort into it. These two games wouldn't have saved the system of course, but with a library as small as the 32X's (40-something games), it needed all the help it could get...
(Why do I always want to spell hamster with a p... you know, hampster...
So what the hell is up with the really unbelievable plot in this movie?
According to IMDB, the government receives an alien transmission utilizing the SETI radio transceivers containing a DNA sequence listing for alien DNA and instructions to combine it with human DNA. So let me systematically break down all the horribly unbelievably things wrong with the plot of this story.
Where the hell did the government get the actual stand of DNA? Because all they received is an blueprint of a strand of DNA not the actual strand. So how the hell are they going to make an alien human hybrid without the actual DNA? It's not set in the future.. There are no replicators, so what the hell did the human 'Sil' combine with? Information? A fucking printout of the actual thing? Right from the get go this makes no since. And if they did have a machine do they really expect me to believe that some aliens DNA would be made of up Deoxyribonucleic acid? And alien DNA would have the same coding for all species in the known universe. The very best they could hope for is that they would replicate this stand of alien DNA using Deoxyribonucleic acid with human coding and the fucking thing would die. Best case...
Finally, why the hell would we even do this in the first place. It's like someone in Japan sending you an email instructing you to fuck your mother and then kill her. And you do it without question because you respect the intelligence of the Japanese people. It just makes no sense, I'm mean they must have been really fucking board on a Sunday afternoon to even try something like this.
The whole movie was clearly a prime example of a hot girl flashing her titties to distract the audience from all the really shitty story telling.
Quote:This is a great opportunity, so I have something I'd like to say. In Punch-Out!!, the game gives you a lot of hints about effective timing of punches. There is a big boxer called Bald Bull in the NES version as well and a light flashes to the right in the audience when he charges. If you punch when it flashes you will land a body blow.
A actual Vampire movie, Not based on some teenybooper romance novel.
Daybreakers premise is similar to Richard Matheson's Novels , The world is turned into vampires by a virus,The Vampires have come close to hunting humanity into extinction in pursuit of blood, Without a steady supply of blood the Vampire population will begin to slowly transform into werebats losing all remaining vestiges of humanity, becoming trapped forever as Batlike monsters that will rampage across the world killing both Humans and Vampires.
I was just playing around with my new copy of Adobe After Effects.
As our resident film school buff, what do you think...
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