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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="2">Pocket 
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                        Finally!</font></i></font></b><br>
                      
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
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                      December 1, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Okay, 
                so let's get back to some of the really cool whiz bang features 
                of this thing. The built-in memory function rules. Plain and simple. 
                I hope Nintendo listens here, because if the GameBoy Advance (or 
                whatever it ends up being called) doesn't have this, I'll be very 
                angry. The NGPC allows you to save a game <i>on the system</i>. 
                Not the cartridge, the system itself. If you've ever had to play 
                a GameBoy title and been annoyed to all hell by those damn passwords, 
                you'll love this feature. Gone are the days of having to carry 
                with you a bunch of post-it notes with hundreds of random characters 
                on it...and the games themselves can cost less, since they don't 
                have to have a battery backup built-in.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As for 
                the system's ability to connect to the Dreamcast, I haven't tried 
                it out yet, but I'm told it's pretty cool. It only works with 
                one title at the moment, (<b>King of Fighters DreamMatch '99 </b>connects 
                with its NGPC sibling, <b>King of Fighters R2</b> to open up other 
                characters on both games, and upload custom characters) but there 
                are others coming, and there are all kinds of cool possibilities 
                (Internet downloads, perhaps?). You'll need to pick up a Dreamcast 
                connection cable for it to work, but it's cool stuff.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As of 
                right now, the only way to connect for multiplayer games is a 
                cable not at all unlike the GameBoy's connection cable. But coming 
                soon (really soon, I hope) is an innovative device that will allow 
                for wireless connections between systems (up to 64 simultaneously!) 
                and even cooler, they can be 100 yards apart from each other. 
                Nifty stuff here, kids.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Naturally, 
                all of this is meaningless without the right games to back it 
                up. So how are the games so far? I'll go into more detail in the 
                next edition of this column, but the quick version is - pretty 
                good. There's a good selection of games available, which range 
                from the classic (<b>Pac-Man</b>) to some fantastic fighting games 
                (<b>Samurai Showdown</b>, <b>King of Fighters R2</b>) and even 
                a decent RPG (<b>Bio Motor Unitron</b>). There isn't really a 
                &quot;killer app&quot; out there yet, but if you ask me, <i>the</i> 
                game to get for the system is <b>Bust-A-Move Pocket</b>. </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you 
                ever played <b>Bust-A-Move</b> (it's known as <b>Puzzle Bobble</b> 
                outside the US) on any platform, you know the drill (it's available 
                on the Nintendo 64, PC, Saturn, Playstation, and others). It's 
                a puzzle game where you (and your really cute little dinosaur 
                thing) have to eliminate all the bubbles at the top of the screen 
                by lining up three bubbles of the same color (obviously it's more 
                complex than this). It's very, very fun, incredibly addicting, 
                and there's even a &quot;VS. CPU&quot; mode where you can battle 
                against the computer. It's no Tetris, but it's one of those games 
                that are just made for handheld gaming. </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So what's 
                the one thing this system <i>doesn</i>'t have? It's got a true 
                16-Bit CPU, it's light, the colors are bright and plentiful...but 
                you know what? It's got absolutely <i>horrendous</i> sound. The 
                sound, and I kid you not here, is literally the same as the GameBoy's. 
                I suppose adding a more advanced sound system would add lots of 
                power consumption, but jeez...can someone explain to me why in 
                all these years of technology improvements, no handheld system 
                has managed to surpass the Atari Lynx in terms of sound quality? 
                Aaaargh. Unfortunately, with the NGPC, you're going to have to 
                suffer with the same annoying cheezeball MIDI music as all those 
                GameBoy games. I suppose it's not the worst thing in the world, 
                but it is a major let down for an otherwise flawless system.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So there 
                you have it...my initial look at the Neo Geo Pocket Color. Is 
                it worth getting? Hell, yes. SNK deserves some major credit for 
                releasing a system this powerful for a price this low, and there 
                are a lot of games available (around 20) for the system already. 
                So if you're bored with that outdated GameBoy technology, definitely 
                get yourself one of these bad boys. They come in six different 
                styles, too. :)</font></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. Yes, that's a Neo Geo in his pocket, you pervert.</i></font></p>
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