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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="2">From 
                        the Mouth of Madness:</font><font color="#904C10" size="4"><br>
                        <font size="3">License Me!</font></font></i></font></b><br>
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">By 

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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 14<br>
                      February 28, 2000</font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left" ><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Akira: 
                </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>third 
                person action game. </i></font></p>
              <p align="left" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This 
                is one of those licenses that baffles me. Why hasn’t anyone undertaken 
                this one? Anime and video games are Japan’s two largest forms 
                of entertainment, and yet one of the best anime movies has never 
                been adapted. <b>Ghost in the Shell</b>, while not too related 
                to the movie, was a pretty good game, I have to admit…and it only 
                made me wish someone would get off their butts and make an <b>Akira</b> 
                game. Can you imagine what a great Playstation 2 game this would 
                make? The motorcycle scenes alone would make for a great game. 
                Once the giant guns get pulled out…well, you’ve got great fodder 
                right there.</font></p>
              <p align="left" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Buffy 
                The Vampire Slayer: </b><i>third person action</i>.</font></p>
              <p align="left" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Here’s 
                another baffling one. I would have expected a cheesy shovelware 
                game by now, but even that hasn’t happened. Hey Warner Brothers 
                - give someone the Unreal Tournament engine, a decent sized budget, 
                and let them go nuts. If the game were playable from a number 
                of characters (Buffy, Angel, possibly Willow?) it would be tons 
                of fun. </font></p>
              <p align="left" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Lord 
                of the Rings: </b><i>real-time strategy</i>. </font></p>
              <p align="left" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I had 
                a tough time thinking of game that would make for a decent real-time 
                strategy game, since that’s a tough nut to crack. <b>Dune 2</b>, 
                I’m convinced, was total luck. Who knew how well that was going 
                to work? <b>Lord of the Rings</b>, on the other hand, just screams 
                for a strategy game. You’ve got a detailed layout of the land, 
                a great (and large) cast of characters, and hey! There’s even 
                a new movie coming out. It’s definitely tough to make a strategy 
                game based on a license (look at <b>Braveheart</b> as an example 
                of how not to do it) but <b>Dune 2</b> proved it can be done. 
                Let’s see something done right here, people.</font></p>
              <p align="left" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Milk 
                &amp; Cheese: </b><i>third person action. </i></font></p>
              <p align="left" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Okay, 
                so maybe this doesn’t need to be a full-fledged <i>game</i> or 
                anything, but I sure would love to see someone try. If you’ve 
                never read the comic, here’s the concept – there are two characters, 
                a milk carton, and a wedge of cheese, that go around beating the 
                crap out of everything in sight, and generally terrorizing the 
                populace of the tri-state area. Sound like a great idea for a 
                game to you? Well, it’s better than <b>Grand Theft Auto</b> or 
                <b>Postal</b>, and those games got made, didn’t they? Frankly, 
                I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that this will ever happen, 
                but I’d settle for a mod that lets me take on the body of one 
                of them and run through a supermarket with an axe. But hey…that’s 
                just me.</font></p>
              <p align="left" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Douglas 
                Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: </b><i>third person 
                adventure</i>.</font></p>
              <p align="left" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Back 
                in the Infocom days, Douglas Adams made a couple of : <b>The Hitchhiker’s 
                Guide to the Galaxy </b>(in my opinion the single best game ever 
                made) and <b>Bureaucracy</b>. His return to gaming, <b>Starship 
                Titanic</b> wasn’t bad by any means, but it wasn’t particularly 
                good, either. Work has begun on a new game in the <b>Hitchhiker’s 
                Guide</b> universe, and while I think that could very well be 
                fantastic, I can’t help but think that Adams’ <i>other</i> series 
                could very well be better suited to adaptation. With Dirk, you 
                get a bumbling film-noir hero, plus a wild plot that includes 
                the extermination of the human race. What more could a game ask 
                for?</font></p>
              <p align="left" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, 
                there you have it. Ten games, that if you ask me, need to be made. 
                I wouldn’t be too surprised if a couple of them are announced 
                at this year’s E3…but some of them (<b>Milk &amp; Cheese</b>, 
                for one) I don’t ever expect to see. But boy, it sure would be 
                fun. :)</font></p>
              <p align="right" >&nbsp;</p>
              <p align="right" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i>- 
                Jason &quot;loonyboi&quot; Bergman is the editor-in-chief here 
                at loonygames. He is fully licensed for this position.</i></font></p>
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