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        <p align="center"><font size="+3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0022A8">loonygames 
          goes to E3!<font size="+1"><br>
          (concluded)</font></font></p>
        <p align="RIGHT"><font color="#804000"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By 
          Jason &quot;<a href="mailto:jason@loonygames.com">loonyboi</a>&quot; 
          Bergman</font></b></font></p>
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        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And then of course, there 
          was <b>Um Jammer Lammy</b>, the sequel to last year's surprise hit, 
          <b>Parappa the Rapper</b>. While the general concept has remained the 
          same between the two games, the musical style has changed from hip-hop 
          to rock music (don’t worry, it's just as cheezeball as it was before) 
          and they've added a two-player mode that was a big hit with the crowd. 
          Many of your favorite characters from the original are returning for 
          the sequel, and it looks just as weird as the original. I can't wait 
          to try it out. The big PlayStation yawners at the show were <b>Bloody 
          Roar II</b> (I wasn't particularly impressed with the original, and 
          this one looks to be more of the same), <b>Spyro 2</b> (one sequel that 
          simply never should have been made…this means more annoying commercials), 
          and <b>Crash Team Racing</b>, which is pretty much a poor man's <b>Mario 
          Kart</b>. </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">One pleasant surprise was 

          the presence of the Next-Generation PlayStation <i>on the floor</i>. 
          They had a sort of pyramid set up, with monitors on each face showing 
          off various demos, and there was even one live demonstration that was 
          pretty impressive. In the live demo, the guy giving the demonstration 
          was holding a PlayStation controller (the PSX2 shares the same controller 
          ports, allowing for old peripherals to work seamlessly) and in real 
          time, controlling the morphing of a man into a rubber ducky. It was 
          very impressive, as were all the demos (that <b>Gran Turismo</b> demo 
          looks even better up close) but I'm tired of demos, dammit. I want to 
          see the <i>games</i>. After the meeting I had with <b>Oddworld</b>'s 
          Lorne Lanning, I'm ready to see what developers are doing with this 
          hardware…quit telling me how cool it's going to be, and show it to me 
          already! Aargh. What can you do?</font></p>
        <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Most Irritating Booth: 
          </b>Eidos "party people in the house" Interactive. For the second year 
          in a row, Eidos managed to make me regret that I work in this industry. 
          I'm totally cool with hawking your wares, but man…Eidos' stage was downright 
          embarrassing. Only the <b>Space Bunnies Must Die</b> booth from E3 '98 
          came close to approaching their level of inanity. Make it stop.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Best Promotion:</b> I'd 
          love to give this to the Gathering of Developers' "Promised Lot," but 
          all that turned out to be was a bunch of trailers with really cramped 
          game demos, some cute Playboy models (hey, I went to the mansion, baby, 
          this don't impress me anymore), and a whole lot of really drunk GameSpy 
          employees. Whee. No, by far, the best promotion at the show was HEAT.net's 
          sponsorship of…the Men's room urinals. That's right, they sponsored 
          the friggin' urinals. Imagine managed to sponsor the hotel keycards, 
          but only SegaSoft managed to corner the one thing that every man at 
          the show couldn't possibly miss. Way to go. I can't even imagine what 
          they did in the ladies room (nor do I really want to, frankly). I'm 
          not entirely sure what their marketing decision was here ("come piss 
          on us!") but hey…it was memorable.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Worst Party:</b> Volume 
          9.9, thrown by the Gathering of Developers. Jeez…talk about backfiring, 
          this was supposed to be the party to end all parties at E3, right? Well, 
          unfortunately, they had a few things working against them. First of 
          all, they forgot about an LA ordinance against raves, so they had to 
          be over by 2 AM. Second of all, they overestimated how big a draw a 
          rave at E3 would actually be. Paying $30 for an E3 party wouldn't be 
          too bad, but they forgot that people go to these things to schmooze…and 
          a rave - er, "techno party" isn't exactly conducive to schmoozing. Who 
          wants to attempt to make contacts at a party where nobody can hear or 
          see each other? The end result? Nobody showed up. Doh!</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Biggest Wimps:</b> Activision. 
          For shame! Activision, fearing negative press about Raven Software's 
          <b>Soldier of Fortune</b>, all but buried the game at the show. Not 
          only was the game being shown by appointment only, but if you didn't 
          already have an appointment before the show started, you weren't going 
          to get one. And if you asked about the game, they dodged you entirely. 
          Considering that this is an A-grade title, Activision shot themselves 
          in the foot with this one - again. Come on, guys…didn't you learn anything 
          from <b>Heretic II</b>? </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Biggest Press Kit: </b>Sony. 
          It takes six guys to lift this thing. Seriously. I'm in pain here.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Best Freebie: </b>The 
          super-secret Anachronox Swiss Army Knife. Now that's some class.</font></p>
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            <td><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">Um. Are 
              those guys from Space Invaders?</font></i></td>
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        <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Most Baffling Ad Campaign:</b> 
        Psygnosis' crack-addled </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&quot;Let's 
        Be Friends&quot; ads for <b>Wipeout 3</b>. I have no idea what the heck 
        this means.</font> 
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Biggest Surprise: </b>There 
          really wasn't one. In all, this was a very conventional show, which 
          was a bit disappointing, but hey...it was still a good time.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So there you have it, kids…E3 
          '99. I came, I saw, I barely drank. But hey…there's always next year. 
          :)</font></p>


        <p align="LEFT">&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><i>- 
          Jason &quot;loonyboi&quot; Bergman is the editor-in-chief here at <b>loonygames</b>. 
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      <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2"><b>Credits:</b> 
        Illustration &copy; 1999 Rowan Crawford. This article is &copy; 1999 Jason 
        Bergman. All other content is &copy; 1999 <a target="_self" href="http://www.loonyboi.com">loonyboi 
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