Coming soon to Cartoon Network! Just recently saw a commercial for it and had to look it up for myself. Here's a link.

http://www.starwars.com/eu/news/2003/02/...30220.html

Hi-larious!

8 cubes, splitscreen, LAN...

Now all we need is for someone to develop a LAN spoofer for this (and Kirby's Air Ride too)... :)

http://cube.ign.com/articles/45 0/450395p1.html

Its a new preview. IGN says its good... :)

Quote:Sony announced new tidbits of the PlayStation Portable PSP system. It is confirmed that the machine will have four face buttons (triangle, circle, cross and square), a digital directional pad, one analog stick, two should buttons (L and R), Start and Select. Connectivity is a key feature to PSP, the machine accepts the following connections through its USB port: PSP to PS2, PSP to PSP, PSP to PC. The machine will come with rechargeable battery which expected to last for 3 - 6 hours like other high-end devices. The Universal Media Disc will have security feature to prevent piracy; and the 3D power will be more akin to PS2 instead of PSone. Developers around the world will soon receive a PSP emulator for development, and actual hardware development kit will be shipping this winter.

Quote:When it was first announced that Rareware had been sold to Microsoft fans were shocked in large. Many hardcore Rareware fans brought an Xbox to get all of Rareware's new games.

One game that really had people excited was the then unseen Perfect Dark Zero. Fans even went to such lengths as to buy an Xbox for the game.

A video featuring Joanna Dark in a more anime look was shown last year and fans have been eagerly waiting for news since, and today they have had some bad news.

It seems one of the most anticipated games for the Xbox wont in fact come out on the Xbox. It has a release year of 2006, and will appear on Microsoft's next console.

This is one of the greatest restaurants ever. If not for In 'n Out, it might be the greatest restaurant. And today was "free burritos for college students day", and that made me very happy. So what do you guys think? Do they even have Chipotles where you live?

So now that I have the greatest computer ever (not quite, but I like it), I can play PC games again! I probably won't be buying a lot of games, but there are a few PC games I always wanted to play but never could before. At the top of that list are WarCraft 3 and Morrowind. And I know that if I don't mention it, every single one of you is going to yell "STARCRAFT" at me.

I've heard a lot about Battlefield 1942, especially a lot of "Best Game of the Year". But I don't know much about it. Oh, and there is of course all the Monkey Island games I missed. I'm not a big FPS fan, but then again, I've never really played one. So any suggestions there?

Oh, and finally, what is a good joystick/gamepad thingy? Last time I bought a PC controller was a Microsoft Sidewinder in 97 or 98, and it didn't work with any of our games. Which made it very useful. I haven't trusted PC joysticks since, but I'm, sure they have made a lot of improvements.

Hmm, I didn't think that the "Bring EB 1&2 (GBA) to the U.S." petition would be successful, but it looks like it might work.

From Nintendojo:

Quote:The official Nintendo magazine of the U.K. has within their latest issue a 5-page interview with none other than Mr. Shigeru Miyamtoto himself. In addition to a slew of other interesting questions and responses, one in particular stood out that should make a few of you happy:


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Nintendo UK: Is there any possiblity of the Mother 1&2 GBA collection coming out in English?

Miyamoto: We had high hopes for Earthbound, the Super NES version, in the US, but it didn't do well. We even did a TV commercial, thinking, "Hey... this thing could sell three million copies!" But it didn't. You might not know this, but there was a petition in the US, a 'Please make Mother 3' petition and it got about 30,000 signatures! After that, we thought "Wow... Earthbound fans are really solid".
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There you have it. Miyamoto himself has seen the Starmen.net petition that we at Nintendojo had previously "hosted" via a news article. Furthermore, with that kind of shocked response, the chances seem at least marginally better of the series creeping its way over to North America. Keep one's fingers crossed. (wj)

Source: Nintendo (Europe)

There's bad box art and then there's BAD box art. This is a thread about the BAD box art and the companies that commited the atrocities.

All the box art I got came from here.

Tagin' Dragon:



There’s no need to explain why this cover is so utterly freakish and disturbing, but things are wrong aside from the eerily grinning dragon sticking a limp maroon . . . tail . . . in his jaws. Why can we see through the skin of the reddish dragon? And just what the hell is going on the bottom right-hand corner of the picture? Perhaps the last question is best left a mystery, since finding an answer would require someone to stare at the cover of Tagin’ Dragon for more than a few seconds. That’s not a good idea.

Some may wonder how art like this could end up on a game for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, given the big N’s notoriously uptight policies of the era. While the company may have missed the implied sex scene ten minutes into Golgo 13 or the exploding head of Hitler during Bionic Commando’s finale, there’s no way that something like Tagin’ Dragon could have made it past Nintendo. So how did it get to the market?

The lack of a “Nintendo Seal of Quality” on the box of Tagin’ Dragon provides the answer. This game didn’t have to meet any scrupulous Nintendo standards, since it was an unlicensed title published in America by Bunch Games, which was reportedly affiliated with Color Dreams, itself a source of many amusing NES releases that never carried Nintendo’s approval.Tagin’ Dragon was actually programmed by another unapproved company known as Sachen, a fascinatingly strange Taiwanese entity better known for NES games like Jovial Race and that inadvertent monument to game-borne sadism, Little Red Hood.

What sort of game did Sachen create with Tagin’ Dragon? Is it really as repulsize as its box illustration implies? The answer, fortunately, is no, although the title screen could possibly frighten small children who haven’t already been inured to horrendous dragon artwork by the cover. When Tagin' Dragon is started, a lumpy, marginally reptilian creature appears next to the title and starts changing colors. It's hard to watch.


Stider:



No, it’s not truly horrendous. It’s just cheesy. Strider Hiryu, one of the most stylish of Capcom’s early characters, has been recast as a square-jawed, tights-wearing stock superhero using a sword from She-Ra: Princess of Power to fend off a robot and two monkey-men. In the background we see a lazy recreation of the Russian minarets from Strider’s first stage, though the artist’s overwhelming use of tan makes the structure look more like an enormous sand castle.

The overall effect is not unlike that given by some cheap illustration from a terrible direct-to-video sci-fi film of the 1980s. (The Non-Hiryu guy even looks a little like Reb Brown, star of Space Mutiny.) With that in mind, we might speculate that Sega may have once planned to use this box art for a different game.




Valis 3:

Original Japanese box art:



The three heroines of Valis III are pictured above on the cover of the game's PC Engine CD (the TurboGrafx/TurboDuo in the west) release. While the blue border is confusing and the art merely adequate, the cast at least looks as they do in the game. The sorceress at the rear is Valna, the whip-wielding beast-girl in the foreground is Cham, and the blue-haired lass in the armored bikini is Yuko. Remember what Yuko looks like, as she’s the focus of the game's American cover.



I think this is supposed to be Yuko, anyway. However, not only does this illustration bear little resemblance to Yuko’s design, it's not even clear if this is actually supposed to be a woman. The excessive shading around the character’s face makes it seem as though she’s growing stubble, and the oddly elongated arms and large hands lend the figure an androgynous look. “Her” expression isn’t comforting either. Some game covers are blatantly disturbing, badly drawn, or unrelated in tone, but this one is just creepy in an indefinite way.

It’s a shame that unsettling art have turned a few customers away from the TurboGrafx/TurboDuo CD version of Valis III. With Turbo Technologies Inc. squandering ad money on Johnny Turbo and the system getting far less magazine space than the Genesis, SNES, or even the NES, Turbo titles needed good packaging to drive those impulsive in-store purchases. Sadly, TurboGrafx cover illustrations had never exhibited high standards before, and the ball was dropped yet again with Valis III.

On the Sega Genesis, however, a port of Valis III found success in America both critically and commercially, aided perhaps by a cover that wasn’t quite as ugly. (Or perhaps by appearing on a system that was genuinely popular, but that's open to debate.) Still, Yuko couldn’t catch a break here either. Check out the “Yuko SMASH!!” look on her swollen face.



Enjoy!

Wasn't it just a few months ago?

Well in any case, happy birthday.