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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">PC 
                        Fight Club</font></i></font></b><br>
                      
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">By 
                        <a href="mailto:jsimpson@ravensoft.com">Jake Simpson</a></font></div>
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 6 <br>
                      December 13, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>PC perception. 
              </b> </font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Getting 
              real, the PC is not what most people would consider a &#145;fighters&#146; 
              kind of box, or indeed a games box at all. Most consider the PC 
              to be a &#145;work&#146; box, not a games box. Now I know that everyone 
              reading this is more than likely to disagree. But think about this 
              &#150; almost everyone reading this is from the PC gaming arena, 
              since it&#146;s on a site of that nature that this article is being 
              published. You are representative of the PC gaming culture that 
              has online access, but it has to be acknowledged that the more serious 
              minded PC users dwarf the PC gaming audience. It&#146;s only in 
              the last two to three years that the PC has truly come of age as 
              a games machine, and it&#146;s no coincidence that it happened right 
              at the 3D accelerator card revolution. Be that as it may, just because 
              the PC is able to play really good games does not mean it is looked 
              at that way. It&#146;s still regarded primarily as a &#145;work&#146; 
              machine. The machine we do our taxes on, write the occasional letter 
              on, and use AOL on. And as such, since it&#146;s our &#145;cerebral&#146; 
              machine, if we do play games on it, they are generally more complex 
              ones. The RTS games, <b>Age of Empires</b>, <b>Dungeon Keeper</b>, 
              the deep immersive first person shooters like <b>Half-Life </b>and 
              <b>Thief</b>, and the quiz games, like<b> You Don&#146;t Know Jack</b>. 
              All requiring some degree of IQ rather than reflexes to attain the 
              goals presented. </font></p>
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            <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is gradually changing, 
              but even so, PC games are expected to have a greater degree of depth 
              than their console cousins. And lets face it, with the greatest 
              will in the world; fighters can&#146;t be considered that in-depth. 
              (Of course that depends on your definition of depth, but I define 
              it as the ability of the game to keep you coming back to it, due 
              to new and unrevealed content and fun factor. Fighters certainly 
              score in the second bracket, but not in the first. If you&#146;ve 
              seen one guy do a front kick then you&#146;ve seen them all. Special 
              moves and fatalities help here, but even then, most are just a variation 
              on a theme.). As a result, a fighter isn&#146;t something that would 
              occur to most PC developers, mainly because one hasn&#146;t been 
              done before. Very Catch 22. One isn&#146;t done, because one hasn&#146;t 
              been done. And if one isn&#146;t done, no one else will do one... 
              etc etc etc.</font></p>
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            <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">These seem to cover the 
              main reasons that the PC has little fighter presence, besides the 
              inevitable <b>Mortal Kombat </b>ports,<b> Rise of the Robots</b> 
              (which was so dire, it is probably best to forget that this title 


              ever happened. As I recall, it started life as an arcade piece, 
              which was basically a 386 in an arcade box, then was a PC released 
              game in its own right. Some of the heaviest hyping going really 
              set this up for a fall), <b>FX-Fighter</b> and one small overlooked 
              game called <b>One Must Fall 2097</b>. Many people emailed me to 
              check this out, it&#146;s an old game now found on the Epic website 
              as freeware. Originally written way back when, its specs require 
              a 486 with at least 4 Megs of ram. There you go, some genuine history 
              for you. But it does actually stand the test of time. It&#146;s 
              fun, fast &#150; in fact waaaaaay too fast on a PII anything, but 
              that&#146;s progress for you. :)</font></p>
            <p></p>
            <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FX Fighter </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">was 

              from Argonaut, and was originally a SNES game, using the same FX 
              chip that was used in the <b>StarFox</b> titles. I can&#146;t honestly 
              recall if this ever made it to market, but I know the PC version 
              did. It was very blocky as I recall, true 3D models being used, 
              but with very few polygons... I&#146;m still trying to track down 
              a copy of this...Anyone out there got one?</font></p>
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            <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So in closing, it would 
              appear right now that there&#146;s a gap in the market for a good, 
              fun, original PC fighting game. Anyone out there feel like taking 
              this one on?</font></p>
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