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Vic's third article. Includes
info about Capcom, SF Movie,
GEN-CON info, VR Show in NYC,
a bit of Blackthorne info and
various other tidbits! Make
Vic feel good and check it out!
Article written August 6 1994
Author: Viceroy/Sober
Released on Concept Elite!
About 180 lines of info-text!
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Hi! Thanks for downloading this, and most of all thanks for reading it!
This is the third of what I hope to be a long series of articles written
by me about the news, insights and future trends of the video game
industry and the console scene. I'd like to thank Loverman, Wise Guy,
Elite Lover and TWK for their support & inspiration! Oh, and of course
-Pan- for his awesome trainers! And what would the scene be without dudes
like Daviolator (leader of the new hot group NWO which is gearing up to do
some major console releasing!). Lastly, I'd like to thank all my friends on
CE for their help, support and encouragement over the past few months! You
guys are the BEST, and it goes without saying that CE RULES!
Viceroy/SoBeR
Oh and hey, feel free to include this crap in any upcomming text mags or
scene 'zines or whatever! No, fuck that, I want written permission! hehehe
....and now for the good stuff...
Ok well basically this article is going to be a collection of news tidbits
that Ive come across in the past week. Some come from mags like EGM, others
come from talking with dudes in the scene. I try to verify everything from
at least two sources, because as ya know, 90 percent of whats in EGM turns
out to be bull.
-- A bit of Capcom news --
As everyone has seen of the past few months, Capcom has been diversifying
the platforms that they support. No longer are the days of Capcom's titles
being specific to the Nintendo family of machines. And as part of this
(in my opinion good) trend, Capcom has decided to develop a version of
their mega-hit MEGA-MAN for the Sega Genesis. This is confirmed info, there
will soon be a cool version of Mega Man comming out for all the Genesis
players!
(Pause)...More(y/n/ns)?
The upcomming release, entitled "MEGA-MAN: The Wiley Wars" will be a
compilation title that contains all three original 8-bit Mega Man games!
Don't worry, Capcom has devoted an entire team of graphics artists to give
these classic oldies a hot new 16-bit look and play. This was big news for
Capcom during the CES, but of course it was overshadowed by SSF2.
Capcom's other upcomming titles will include "BONKERS" for Super Nintendo,
which features Bonkers D. Bobcat in a crime fighting side scroller. The
Game Boy will also see a new Mega Man release, called "Mega Man V", which
is nothing more than a scaled down version of the 8bit MM5.
-- Street Fighter Movie Info --
Here is an exclusive list of cast members for this long awaited silver
screen adaptation. Well we all know that Jean-Claude Van Damme is cast
as Guile, but here are all the others:
Raul Julia (Adams Family) will be playing M. Bison
Ming Na Wen as Chun Li (a part originally scheduled for Joan Chen)
Wes Studi (Last of the Mohicans) as Sagat
Byron Mann as Ryu
Grant Bush as Balrog
Peter Tuiasosopo as E. Honda
Richard Jay as Vega
Miguel Nunex as Dee Jay.
The roles of Blanka, Cammy, Dhalsim, Fei Long, T. Hawk, Zangief as well
as the key role of Ken are still being cast.
Also there is a rumor floating around that a new character named Captain
Sawada (to be played by Kenya Sawada) who is Guile's second in command
of the United Nations Forces. Capcom is also considering adding Captain
Sawada to the Super-Street-Fighter-II Turbo version which is being worked
on to be released at the same time as the movie. (And no, SFIII will not
be ready, or at least not in time for the movie.)
The shooting has ALREADY began and the movie is scheduled for a late
November-early December release, which does not leave much time for post
production and special effects work...
-- GEN CON info -=
Have you heard about the 1994 GEN CON Game Fair? Well it's gonna be cool!
Its scheduled to be a four day multimedia event geared towards AD&D, RPG and
strategy game players. Last year's show was attended by more than 20,000
people and this year's attendance is expected to be even higher!
This year's GEN CON show will be held in Milwaukee on August 18 thru 21.
Special events of GEN CON include 1,000 computer, video arcade, adventure,
military, strategy, board, miniatures, role playing and virtual reality
games!!! In addition to that, a $10,000 dollar prize giveaway is scheduled!
(Pause)...More(y/n/ns)?
This year's show will also feature Star Trek TNNG actors and other cool
celebrities, such as Lord British and Trip Hawkins. The tel# to get info
is 414-248-3625 ext 424.
Oh and if thats not enough for ya, check out the Global Virtual Reality Show.
This is the first permanent Virtual Reality exhibit in the States!
The exhibit is located in MANHATTAN (NYC) and includes products and displays
from more than 50 leading manufacturers of VR gear. Also available are
plenty of hands on displays and demo booths. Weekly workshops will be held
as well! Global VR is sponsored by AIG-Advanced Applications, publishers of
the Virtual Reality Systems magazine. A location for the show is yet to
be announced, but organizers hope to open doors some time in October 1994.
I will post more info when it is available, since I know that I'll be one
of the first people to check it out (since Im local to NYC.)
-- Blackthorne stuff --
Well ya all have seen the awesome new game Blackthorne, since it made the
BBS rounds this week! Parts of the game's graphics and the entire retail box
was designed by the famous comic book artist Jim Lee, president and founder
of WildStorm publications. Lee's work has included WildCATS, Stormwatch
and Deathblow. Oh, and did I forget to mention that Jim Lee was responsible
for X-Men #1, the best selling comic book ever! So if ya have not seen the
game yet, grab it! It's really one of the best I've ever seen. Players of
Prince of Persia and Flashback will quickly adjust to the character
movement. Warning: This game is HARD! A trainer helps!
-- Project Reality Stuff --
Well, NO, its not dead! Everyone was really disappointed when Silicon Graphics
dropped co-developement of Project Reality with Nintendo corp. However
there is a bit of news to report. Scottish developement company called
DMA-Design, the designer of the LEMMINGS series of games has been signed
by Nintendo to develop new titles for Project Reality. There are few details
yet, but the new games will be exclusive to Nintendo formats. Whats really
ironic is that the Lemmings games were released by Psygnosis, a SONY owned
company, and now the future sequels to these games may leave Sony's PS/X
out in the cold!
-- MGM & SEGA -- / --ACCLAIM & WARNER BROS --
Sega has joined forces with Metro Goldwin Mayer, the giant movie studio
to produce a series of interactive video games, TV shows and movies.
First up is Batman Forever for the 32X and Saturn.
Altough the companies will release original products, many titles will
probably be based on 1995-1996 MGM and United Artists movie releases.
This is a non-exclusive contract, which of course means that both companies
are free to work with other organizations and projects.
(Pause)...More(y/n/ns)?
The other side of the coin is Acclaim, which recently signed a contract
with Warner Brothers, another movie house, to develop and publish the
coin-operated and cartridge formats of Batman Forever (the third in the
Batman series of money-makers!)
The arcade version of Batman Forever which is being developed by Acclaim
will be the first Acclaim coin-op release which will utilize Sega's TITAN
coin-op technology. Besides the coin-op version using TITAN, Acclaim will
release home cartridge versions for SNES, Sega Genesis and
Sega-CD. As stated above, Sega itself is releasing the 32x and Saturn
versions through it's new collaboration with MGM.
-- A little PS/X info --
Sony Corp of America has established a new division called
"Sony Computer Entertainment of America" (abbreviated as SONY-CEA).
SONY-CEA will market hardware and software for the PS/X. SONY-CEA will
also handle third party video game software licensing in the United States.
As we all know, the Sony 32bit PS/X, probably the most impressive 32bit
machine is scheduled for a November release in Japan and an early
1995 release in the States and Europe.
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Well enough for today.. I hope ya enjoyed this! Greets to all!
-ViC/SoBeR- [8/5/94] "BIG BUSTS are not just for FEDS!"
BBS ADDS SUXX !!!! ADDING SOME BLONDE JOKES RULZ HAHA !!!
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