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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">That Darn Playstation 2</font></font></i></font></b><br>
                      
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">By 

                        Jason &quot;<a href="mailto:jason@loonygames.com">loonyboi</a>&quot; 
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 3&nbsp; <br>
                      November 22, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Let's 
                not forget the slew of really pretty dancing and musical titles 
                that are lined up for the system. Ladies and gentlemen, the most 
                powerful gaming machine on the planet is being used to power...<b>Drum 
                Mania</b>. Woo hoo! You laugh, but I'm not kidding. A number of 
                Playstation 2 titles are the kind of quirky Japanese games that 
                sell like hot-cakes over there, but likely won't make it to America. 
                An example: <b>Popolocrois</b>, one of those incredibly odd &quot;girlfriend 
                simulators&quot; that keep coming out in Japan (you may recall 
                that another game of this type accompanied the N64's Japanese 
                launch). </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Even Square's 
                <b>The Bouncer</b>, which has a lot of people talking, bores the 
                heck out of me. It's going to be at least a year before we get 
                our first <b>Final Fantasy </b>title on the system, and boy, until 
                then, I just can't help but think the system's going to be barren. 
                </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Where's 
                <b>Resident Evil</b>? <b>Wipeout</b>? Heck, there hasn't even 
                been a <b>Crash Bandicoot</b> title announced for the system yet. 
                Which is very surprising, considering that Crash is the closest 
                thing to a genuine Playstation mascot (unless you count Lara Croft, 
                of course) and one of the first PSX 2 technology demos featured 
                an uber-high resolution Crash. Supposedly Naughty Dog, the developers 
                of the first batch of Crash games has decided to move onto other 
                projects and characters, but there are more games coming...when, 
                is of course the question. </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">What the 
                Playstation 2 announcement felt like to me was Sony jumping the 
                gun on their own product launch. These games could not have been 
                in development for more than a year, and the end result is that 
                the first run of games are going to be identical to PSX 1 titles, 
                only with more polygons. Since it's going to take that much more 
                time and money to make a good PS2 game, we could be looking at 
                a really long time before the decent games start to arrive. They'll 
                most certainly arrive, no question about that, but it's going 
                to just plain suck waiting for them.</font></p>
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                        <ignoreme>Cynicism aside, <b>Gran Turismo 2000 </b>really 
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                </font></font>But of course, this doesn't really surprise me. 
                Sony has gotten really, really cocky lately. And admittedly, this 
                is for good reason, but that doesn't necessarily always mean the 
                best thing for us hardcore gamers. The executives at Sony know 
                that if they release the system with not a single game available, 
                it will sell very, very well based entirely on the brand name. 
                But, they also know that they've got some very stiff competition 
                on the way from Nintendo, and Sega's very successful US launch 
                with their Dreamcast. So what do they do? Rather than release 
                another game system, they're going to release a new entertainment 
                appliance. </div>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sounds 
                like a stupid buzzword, doesn't it? Well, get used to it. Because 
                that's precisely what the Playstation 2 is. If you've read any 
                interviews with the Sony bigwigs, they almost never mention that 
                the Playstation 2 is supposed to be a game console, because it's 
                not in their eyes. It's the hub of everything in your living room. 
                </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Think 
                about it: the PSX 2 is a cheap DVD player. Give them credit for 
                that. It will soon have the ability to play movies downloaded 
                via cable modems (this is planned for 2001, but they made this 
                announcement alongside the console itself). It's Internet-ready 
                (with an additional PCMCIA card). Thanks to that FireWire port, 
                you can connect your video camera to the system (lord only knows 
                for what purpose, but they keep talking about it, so there is 
                definitely something planned). Oh, and it plays games, too.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sony is 
                going to try and sell the system to people who want a DVD player 
                and want to surf the web - not just gamers. Gamers will love it 
                because it's freaky-powerful, and eventually great games are coming. 
                But until they do, you'll be looking at one heck of an entertainment 
                appliance that plays some decent, if not great, games, and your 
                entire DVD movie library. Woo-hoo. </font></p>
              <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i>- 
                Jason &quot;loonyboi&quot; Bergman is hungry. Could somebody grab 
                him a sandwich?</i></font></p>
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