http://cube.ign.com/articles/496/496698p1.html

Quote:DICE 2004: Nintendo Still Skeptical of Online
Latest comments from NOA on the subject.
March 04, 2004 - At a DICE held roundtable in Las Vegas, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of corporate affairs Perrin Kaplan commented on online gaming and what it means to Nintendo. The figurehead reiterated Nintendo's stance on the developing gameplay mechanic as something that lacks a profitable model and hasn't appealed to a wide enough audience.

"I think from where we stand it looks to us that it's going to be fairly niche for a long time," said Kaplan on online gaming. "I think some of our interests instead lie in building community on the wireless play front as opposed to the online one."

Kaplan, on a panel with executives from Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and THQ was the only person to question the future of online games. The three other publishers all have online games in development.

No not that other discussion, at least not mostly...

Anyway, I know many people say that Oracles follow up LA, but based on the games that's impossible! Just play them. While the LInks look similar he's a whole lot younger in Oracles than in LA... and the LA one is identical to the one in the LttP manual... the only thing I don't know is what the LOZ/AoL Link looks like. Could anyone help there? :) If that also looks like the LttP Link then LA could be after several games... OoT/MM? I don't know. You'd need to accept that Link doesn't leave for years because as of MM that Link is still young and the LA Link is older. LttP makes the most sense, really. I know it's not a definite but it's about as certain a maybe as you can get. :)

So the question is then when is Oracles? I know it's some generic time but it'd be nice to pin it down a bit more because everything else fits... but Oracles? It's a quite young Link, but he's not the WW Link for sure and he can't be the LttP Link because that one's too old when he starts out his quest much less after it's over... OoT/MM? I don't know. It could be. Link looks kind of similar and is also young. And in the intro he's on a horse... again I don't know what the Zelda 1/2 Links look like. I'd need the game manuals I think, to rule that in or out. But I'd bet he'd be too old... though it could go in between the games or something? But you need to factor in how the Triforce is there, in the castle, at the time. I don't know when it was for sure... but between the horse and the age I'm kind of leaning towards OoT/MM...

So why did I bring this up again? Well I was looking through my GB manuals (and the new LttP one) and noticed how LttP Link is the same as the one in the LA intro (and similar to the older Link in OoT, you know...) and then checked Oracles and noted the age and if you believe that the theory that OoA/S comes either after LA or after LttP are all impossible.

Old news? Maybe, I don't remember. But I wanted to say it anyway. :)

DO YOU REMEMBER ANDREW ANTONE?



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Only at Wal*Mart, baby!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st...lar_bill_1

Quote:Police: Woman Tried to Pass Fake $1M Bill



COVINGTON, Ga. - A woman was caught trying to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at a Wal-Mart, and was later found with two more of the bills in her purse, police said.

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The United States Treasury does not make $1 million bills, but people can buy souvenirs of such a bill at some stores, police said.



"It looks real, but of course there's nothing real about this," Covington Police Chief Stacey Cotton said Tuesday. "People do crazy things all the time. I think it's just another example of some odd things that occur."



A clerk at the store immediately noticed the bill was fake when 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike handed it to her on Friday, Cotton said.



Pike then tried to use two gift cards with only $2.32 of value on them to buy the merchandise, but when that didn't work she again asked if the clerk could cash the $1 million bill, Cotton said. The store then called police.



Pike, of Porterdale, was charged with forgery. There was no listing for her phone number in directory assistance, and she could not be reached for comment Tuesday.



Covington is 32 miles southeast of Atlanta.

http://www.lanceandeskimo.com/flash/quest.html

73 - A Truly Evil Plan

Eh.. guess there are no U2 fans here. ...

From Nintendojo!

Quote:The latest Issue of the United Kingdom’s GameCube magazine NGC, contains an exclusive interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, legendary game created and one of Nintendo’s top producers. In the interview, Miyamoto-san revealed that he is in fact working on two mystery games that could be released by the end of year 2004.

Miyamoto was quoted as saying, ”I am however working closely on Pikmin 2 and two other undisclosed titles alongside it.” He continued, “I hope we will be able to release both of those titles before the end of the year.”

What are these games? Are they updates to existing franchises or entirely new concepts? Do they feature bunnies? Stay with Nintendojo for all your Shiggy needs. (zp)

Source: NGC

...this game needs to get a stateside release! Just check out these screens from IGN. Most impressive 3D GBA engine I've seen so far.

Quote:The entertainment publication Variety says that film and TV powerhouse Jerry Bruckheimer will purchase a Prince of Persia license in order to make a feature film out of it. Jordan Mechner, one of the main game designers of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, would help write the script for the film with supervision.

He says that it would stick close to the game but have additional, original parts similar to what was done for the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which was based on the Disney theme park ride and was also produced by Bruckheimer. The film would be released by Disney.

Tax cuts? Kerry would support tax cuts if they were for people who actually needed them! Note how he supports keeping the Bush tax cuts for people who make less than $200,000... I myself would rather we got rid of all of them, but his position is consistent with his beliefs.

Iraq? He voted to allow Bush to move troops to the reason and attack as a last resort. Now of course he should have known better and known that Bush would take "last resort" to mean "as soon as I can manufacture enough "evidence" to attack before everyone else can get fully organized against it", but he didn't... I myself supported our having troops in the Gulf to threaten Sadaam as threats were all he understood. The problem wasn't the law that was passed it was how the administration interpreted it... still I have a problem with Kerry voting for it. He should not have been tricked by Bush into thinking that he'd actually wait for any kind of proof or "last resort"! I'd like to think he' s smarter than that... but he believed them and didn't think that they'd quickly go to war like they did, I think. From that position voting against the $84 billion makes sense. Now I do think that once we're in we've got to pay for it and accept the consequences, but until we get rid of Bush (and bring in the UN and give it what it wants) we won't get any significant foreign invenstments in Iraq so we have to pay. We have no choice until Bush is gone.

Calling fellow soldiers criminals? Well in Vietam we did a whole lot of criminal things!

Special interests? Bush saying one word about this is absolutely hilarious and one of the most absurd things I have ever heard. Bush is the biggest pro-special interests person around and trying to stick that label on his opponent... totally outrageous.

And as for the Patriot Act, it was sneaked through right after 9/11, given the name PATRIOT, put to vote before people could really tell all of what was in it... I don't blame anyone for voting for it. They had no clue.