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        <p align="center"><font size="+3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0022A8">Extreme 
          Annihilation <br>
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        <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>
        <p align="RIGHT">&nbsp;</p>
        <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">3/14: 11:00 AM – Too Early.</font></b></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Did a lot of stuff last night…met 
          up with the webmasters and we went out to Kobe Steak with John Romero 
          and KillCreek…I think I've been spending too much time in Texas, lately…I 
          had been there before. (Think I ordered the same thing, too.) I had 
          totally forgotten that John was an old-school Apple ][ guy…had a blast 
          reminiscing about those games. Highlight of all that was when he told 
          me he wrote the OS for <b>Zork Zero</b>. Now <i>that's</i> cool stuff. 
          </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">For those who don't understand 
          how that's possible (a game OS) you have to understand how Apple ][ 
          games worked. You actually had to boot up games back then…none of this 
          new-fangled GUI crap. ;)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">He also told me that if you 
          hold down both apple keys on startup, you'll get a message with his 

          name on it. Have to try that some how…</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We all went from the restaurant 
          to the fabulous Ion Storm office, located at the top of the tallest 
          building in Dallas. (Astute readers will no doubt be able to guess that 
          I stayed <i>far</i> away from the many windows, lest I get vertigo.) 
          This is one seriously <i>hardcore</i> office. It's like any office in 
          function, but at every turn they went the extravagant route. There's 
          a theater, a fridge around every turn, music playing in the bathroom 
          (&#9;!) and my god…the best chairs ever. Every Ion employee has these 
          uber-comfortable $1000 chairs. <i>[Except Brian "Squirrel" Eiserloh 
          apparently…the weirdo told me he doesn't like them.]</i> Damn…I want 
          one. ;)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">After the tour, we set up 
          a bunch of computers and played some <b>Daikatana</b> deathmatch. A 
          lot of <b>Daikatana</b> deathmatch, actually. We played a couple of 
          levels that aren't in the demo, including one totally kickass translation 
          of the classic D2M1 map. A ton of fun. John mentioned that this will 
          actually be included in the upcoming internet demo (not the one that's 
          out now, but the non-Mplayer version) so trust me…you're going to have 
          a blast. I discovered that the multiple fire shotgun is the best weapon 
          in the game (looks like my initial thoughts were right on the money 
          here) and the mine thingie is just too much fun. The mines work on line 
          of sight, so deploy these in a doorway to ruin someone's day. </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">After several hours of DM 
          I can say that John is doing a good thing with <b>Daikatana</b>. He's 
          made the DM game of his dreams, and he really loves the thing…it comes 
          through when he's playing, and more importantly, when you're playing 
          it along side him. I actually put a tape recorder down and taped his 
          smack talk…I'll put WAV files of some of those up soon. <i>[Doh! Looks 
          like my batteries ran out after about five minutes…oh well…next time.]</i></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Before we left, we got to 
          see the <b>Anachronox</b> trailer that's going to be released soon…it's 
          cool stuff, but I was disappointed that there's no actual gameplay shown…it's 
          cool stuff, just flythroughs of their environments. I had seen some 
          of it before at last year's E3 (not populated, though, as it is now) 
          which probably accounts for my disappointment. People who haven't seen 
          anything will likely love it. The game just looks <i>fantastic</i>. 
          Really different looking in some areas than what you're used to with 
          the <b>Quake</b> engine. After that, it was uber-late, and we took our 
          leave. Which brings us back to doe, as it were. Gotta run…that <b>Daikatana</b> 
          press tourney should be going on…time to kick ass, baby! <i>[As it turned 
          out, the press thing was cancelled. Oh well…next time.]</i></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>3/14: 1:00 PM – Finals!</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So here we are…finals are 
          about to start. This is Rix vs. Immortal with a boatload of cash on 
          the line. This is a much classier setup than previous events…it's two 
          huge projection screens, sound, the whole works. Kudos to Angel and 
          the gang for a bang-up job here. Immortal's just a <i>beast</i> with 
          the railgun…makes me realize just how much I totally suck. If you've 
          never watched a hardcore game, you don't know what you're missing…download 
          a demo or two and see for yourself. They're horribly entertaining. </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>3/14: 2:45 PM – And the 
          winner is…</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Me! I won a Diamond Viper 
          550 in the door prize drawing…much to everyone's horror. ;)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I felt guilty about it, though, 
          since I already have a TNT card. So I traded it in for a Diamond MX300 
          sound card. Still…I rule. Damn these things are fun…frankly, I think 
          this makes up for the prize I was supposed to have won at QuakeCon '97. 
          I wasn't in the room, so I didn't get it…it took almost two years, but 
          I finally got it. Kick ass. ;)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>3/14: 10:50 PM – Flyin' 
          Off</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We hung out a bit more at 
          the hotel, Billy, Blue, Paul, Redwood and I (the webmasters crew…ph3r 
          our m@d sk1lz y0). We huddled around a few computers with Internet access 
          catching up on all the stuff we'd missed. Or…at least, I was…Blue n' 
          Redwood were updating their pages, while Paul and Billy were checking 
          on what their stand-ins were doing in their absence. Got a laugh out 
          of John Romero's .plan update…that thing was a blast. Big thanks to 
          John for having us over there. Didja notice he forgot to mention Billy? 
          No implications I'm sure…Billy didn't insult his mom or anything. ;)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Got a chance to check out 
          some <b>Team Fortress Classic</b>…after all the <b>Daikatana and Quake 
          3</b> I did this weekend it seemed totally slow as molasses. It does 
          look enjoyable, though…the new models are stylin' and the maps looked 
          nice as well. It was a lot more unfinished than I was expecting, though…I 
          was surprised at that. There were visual glitches on the sniper rifle's 
          zoom…enough to give me a headache just watching it. But the kids seemed 
          to dig it, which I guess is all that matters in the end. Let's hope 
          they work out the kinks enough to release that bad boy soon. </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Checked out the 3DFX booth, 
          where they had some Voodoo 3 info, and coolest of all, the Irish Spring 
          contest winners. I had no idea this was even happening, which sucks, 
          because I would have loved to enter. Basically what it was, was a contest 
          where you carve a 3DFX logo out of a bar of Irish Spring soap. (The 
          Irish Spring thing was a reference to St. Patrick's Day, not any sponsorship, 
          apparently.) The winners were amazingly well done, although I thought 
          the third place winner was the best. That one was a thing that completely 
          did away with the bar of soap shape…the others tended to have the logo 
          coming out of the bar itself. Anyway, neat stuff.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">After a few quick good-byes, 
          we headed off to a Mexican restaurant. When we showed up there, amazingly 
          Onethumb and Squirrel (Ion code boy) were just arriving as well. Go 
          fig. :)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Blue and O.T. made a deal 
          to exchange Blue's unheard of four button Logitech MouseMan wheel with 
          a USB connector (I need one of those!) for a complete set of the awesome 
          <b>Doom</b> pewter figurines. Damn…come to think of it…I'd like to be 
          on both sides of that deal. :)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We headed back to Squirrel 
          and O.T.'s pad to make the exchange and hung out there for a bit. The 
          technophobe would have been horrified by the sight of this place…wires 
          everywhere, tons of computers, just nuts. O.T. had just picked up a 
          hands-free mouse so we got a demo of it using <b>Doom 2</b> of all things. 
          It was…odd to say the least. And they showed us this kickass mouse cleaning 
          thing…it's actually a replacement ball that you stick into your mouse, 
          and then roll it across a custom mouse pad….and voila…clean mouse. Cool 
          stuff. </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was time to catch our 
          flights, so we headed off. I've got some bitching to do about the airport, 
          and I've got a recap to write, but I'm out of paper. I'll do it when 
          (if?) I land. :)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>3/15: 4:35 AM – Back in 
          NYC</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I guess I <i>could</i> bitch 
          here about the marathon run through the airport, or the time we spent 
          circling NYC from 30,000 feet or so…but I think you've had enough of 
          that by now. Besides…it's almost 5 AM here. :)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I have to say…this event 
          was the best one of these I'd been to yet. It was flawlessly run, there 
          were lots of games showing, tons of people to hang out with…just a total 
          blast. The CPL deserves a major pat on the back for this one.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Since I'm so tired, and feeling 
          pretty unoriginal, lemme go back through my list of things I said I'd 
          do.</font></p>
        <ul>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Continue argument with 
            George Broussard about the chances of Sega's success with the Dreamcast.</font></li>
        </ul>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Did this. In fact, we had 
          the argument while standing next to the Dreamcast…he pretty much had 
          me beaten to a pulp, when all of a sudden the <b>Sonic Adventure</b> 
          level where you're running away from a killer whale that's destroying 
          the pier beneath you came on. I think he's buying one now. ;)</font></p>
        <ul>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Verify that <b>Daikatana</b> 
            does exist.</font></li>
        </ul>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Did this…and played lots 
          of it, too. :)</font></p>
        <ul>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Check water supply…make 
            sure I wasn't drugged/hallucinating.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Get drunk.</font></li>
        </ul>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Can you believe I actually 
          forgot to do both of these. Jeeeeeez…of course, the first one was pretty 
          silly, since the <b>Daikatana</b> demo was released…but it would have 
          been a nice thing to check anyway. I'm naturally weary of the water 
          running into all those game development houses down there.</font></p>
        <ul>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Restrain myself from cracking 
            any bigamy jokes around Billy Wilson. </font></li>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ask Billy for the correct 
            pronunciation of "lubings". </font></li>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Attempt to hold back from 
            lecturing the <b>Requiem: Wrath of the Fallen</b> people on Midrash 
            and the inconsistencies of their game<i>. </i></font></li>
        </ul>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Done, done, and done. Damn…I 
          should be a mormon.</font></p>
        <ul>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Play <b>Starsiege</b>.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Find some people playing 
            <b>Shogo</b>, and kick their asses.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Attempt to find some people 
            playing <b>Delta Force</b>/get in on that.</font></li>
        </ul>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Can you believe I didn't 
          do any of these? <b>Starsiege</b> was there, but after a while, all 
          the computers it was on turned into <b>Starsiege: Tribes</b> and they 
          had a mini-competition thing going. Oh well…guess I'll have to go out 
          and get it now. :)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As for the other two…I was 
          too busy to look around. Oh well…next time. Pretty good results, all 
          in all…I'd say it was a hell of an event. If you've never been to a 
          LAN party, you have no idea what you're missing out on. It's a hell 
          of a time.</font></p>
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