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              <p><font color="#0000FF"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000CC">volume 
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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>
        <p align="RIGHT">&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Nintendo's 
          Area:</b> the Nintendo area was so similar to last year's version that 
          it was kinda creepy. They reused the exact same Mario statue (hey, that 
          can't be cheap…it's a working fountain!) and the layout was pretty much 
          the same. They pretty much just changed the games around. Because there 
          wasn't any major draw like Zelda, the booth was somewhat less exciting, 
          but they did have a number of cool new titles to show, including <b>Excitebike 
          64</b> (it took a looooong time, but we're finally getting that sequel 
          to <b>Excitebike</b>), and of course, the real draw to the Nintendo 
          area - <b>Pokemon</b>. Er, I mean, <b>Perfect Dark</b>. </font></p>
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              <div align="center"><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">Check 

                out a whole boatload of Nintendo images, from Resident Evil for 
                the GameBoy Color, to Perfect Dark and Donkey Kong 64 (18 images).</font></i></div>
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        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Seriously, <b>Pokemon</b> 
          was huge at the show. Aside from the freaky guy in the big happy yellow 
          suit (which was just as ridiculous this year as it was last year) they 
          were showing off <b>Pokemon Stadium</b> for the Nintendo 64, as well 
          as <b>Pokemon Pinball</b> for the GameBoy Color. <b>Pokemon Pinball</b> 
          was pretty cool, because it adds (get this) a rumble pak to the GameBoy 
          Color system. It's a novelty, to be sure, but as they go, it's a fairly 
          good one. Other fun GameBoy oddities were <b>Resident Evil</b>, which 
          I actually got to play, and is downright bizarre, and of course, the 
          NES re-releases. If you weren't aware, the GameBoy Color, apparently, 
          is very similar to the original NES' hardware. So, taking advantage 
          of this are Nintendo's <b>Super Mario Brothers DX</b> (out now), and 
          possibly even cooler, Capcom's <b>Bionic Commando</b>. As a big fan 
          of both of these games, I had to ask if the possibility existed for 
          a true-NES adapter. When asked, the PR dude was taken aback somewhat…he 
          acknowledged that the insides were similar, and that such a device may 
          be possible…but that Nintendo has no plans to make one. Still, it's 
          an exciting concept, if you ask me.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nintendo was 
          also showing off some strong new N64 titles, including an N64 version 
          of <b>Starcraft</b>, and <b>Donkey Kong 64</b> (which looked like more 
          of the same from Rare, if you ask me). The big surprise with <b>Donkey 
          Kong 64</b>, is the news that it will <i>require</i> the N64 Expansion 
          Pack. It'll be shipping with it, but this is a big shocker. Sort of 
          makes you wonder if the title was originally planned for the 64DD, doesn't 
          it? In somewhat less shocking news, Nintendo had a new version of <b>Tetris</b> 
          to show off. Can you believe there hasn't been a real <b>Tetris</b> 
          game yet for the N64? Wetrix was okay, but it sure as heck wasn't <b>Tetris</b>.</font></p>
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              <div align="center"><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Resident 
                Evil: Nemesis</b> is totally looking badass (9 images).</font></i></div>
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        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Sony's Area</b>: Sony 
          had an interesting booth. The continuing success of the PlayStation 
          meant that there were plenty of games to show off, so they were pretty 
          huge, as was to be expected, but there weren't any major surprises. 
          A big draw was Capcom's <b>Dino Crisis</b>, the latest survival horror 
          title from the creator of <b>Resident Evil</b>, which was not only looking 
          fantastic, but downright scary. Look for that one to scare the bejesus 
          out of you soon, along with the eagerly anticipated, <b>Resident Evil: 
          Nemesis</b>, which looks fantastic. Another big winner at the show was 
          <b>Final Fantasy VIII</b>, which could very well be one of my most eagerly 
          anticipated games ever (even more so than <b>Zork Zero</b>, way back 
          when). They were showing the intro movie to <b>FF8</b> on multiple screens, 
          and while the aspect ratio was a bit screwy (it sort of squished the 
          image) it was moving, and downright gorgeous (look for Josh Vasquez's 
          look at the intro elsewhere in this week's issue). </font></p>
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        Illustration &copy; 1999 Rowan Crawford. This article is &copy; 1999 Jason 
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