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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="2">Pad 
                        Happy: </font><font color="#904C10" size="4"><br>
                        Sega's Sonic Boom</font></i></font></b><br>
                      
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 1&nbsp; <br>
                      November 11, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><loonystart><b><i>Reason 
                #4: Online gaming</i></b></font> </div>
              <div align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                </font></div>
              <div align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">OK, 
                so this site is probably not the best place to plug a console 
                on the strength of its online capabilities. Sue me. The fact remains, 
                regardless of what us loonygames-reading types think, and the 
                mass market doesn't play online games - yet. The mass market does 
                seem to be buying a shitload of Dreamcasts, though, and every 
                one of those puppies ships with a modem - Sega's Trojan horse. 
                I have a hunch that when the first batch of multiplayer games 
                hit the US and Europe, Sega are going to have to upgrade their 
                Dreamcast networks pretty quickly. <b>Sega Rally 2</b> is fine 
                and dandy to start with, but could you really resist once <b>Half-Life 
                DC </b>and <b>Phantasy Star Online</b> make it out? Thought not...<br>
                </font></div>
              <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                </font><i><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> 
                Reason #5: Arcade conversions</font></b></i> </div>
              <div align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                </font></div>
              <div align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Fact: 
                Sega and Namco make the best arcade games in the world. If you 
                want to play enhanced versions of some of the finest games of 
                the last few years, you'll need to buy a Dreamcast. <b>Virtua 
                Fighter 3</b>, <b>Sega Rally 2</b> and <b>House of the Dead 2</b> 
                are fine representations of their arcade counterparts, although 
                the best is yet to come with mad free-roaming racer <b>Crazy Taxi</b> 
                and the sim-tastic <b>F355 Challenge</b> waiting in the wings. 
                As for the likelihood of further titles from Namco, the sheer 
                effort they put into their way-better-than-the-arcade conversion 
                of <b>Soul Calibur</b> gives a strong indication of their faith 
                in the console's future. The Dreamcast may munch up a few months' 
                worth of quarters, but in the long run you're guaranteed not to 
                regret it. Broom-broom!<br>
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                </font><i><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> 
                Reason #6: Dinky VMS stuf</font></b></i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">f</font> 
              </div>
              <div align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                </font></div>
              <div align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">OK, 
                so the jury's out on whether the Visual Memory System is a useful 
                tool or a fun gimmick, but the idea is certainly a good one. Essentially 
                a glorified memory card (akin to Sony's PocketStation), the VMS 
                is the tool you use to connect your Dreamcast games to their arcade 
                counterparts. In Japan, a VMS (and a copy of the <b>Shenmue</b> 
                Passport demo) enables you to save your F355 arcade performance 
                data for playback at home in a crazy wireframe replay mode (think 
                <b>Metal Gear</b>'s VR mode with cars). We can only hope that 
                with the continued success of Dreamcast, Sega sees fit to increase 
                the potential for interaction between home users and arcade-goers. 
                Think about it - you could spend time at home earning a really 
                cool secret vehicle in the Dreamcast version of some racing game, 
                and then pose by using it in front of the crowds at the local 
                arcade.<br>
                </font></div>
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                </font></div>
              <div align="LEFT"><font size="3"><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Reason 
                #7: Sega's staff are weirdos</b></font></i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                </font></div>
              <div align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                </font></div>
              <div align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sounds 
                like a dumb reason? Well, maybe you should stick to the PlayStation 
                if you like your games with increasingly big numbers at the end 
                of the title. Personally, and as much as I can't wait to play 
                <b>Resident Evil 3</b> or <b>Final Fantasy 8</b> (hey, I'm getting 
                to it), I'm feeling a little let down by Sony in the originality 
                department. OK, they gave us <b>Parappa the Rapper</b> and "survival 
                horror" (for which I'm eternally grateful) but it's time for something 
                else. Sega may yet fall flat with <b>Shenmue</b>, but it's a brave 
                experiment. Likewise, the direction they took with <b>Sonic Adventure</b> 
                was a brave move when everyone seemed to be expecting <b>Mario 
                64</b> in hi-res. Look at the wacked, drug-induced stuff they've 
                been churning out of late! <b>Get Bass</b>, <b>Powerstone</b> 
                and <b>Seaman</b>: are these the products of healthy minds? I 
                think we should be told...<br>
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                  </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i>- 
                  </i><b><i>Shenmue</i></b><i> delayed again? <b>Nick Ferguson</b> 
                  is out for blood (and not that wussy green stuff, either).</i></font></p>
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              <p align="right">&nbsp;</p></loonystart>
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