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              <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E"><img src="../../images/icons/pipe_final.jpg" width="193" height="239" align="left"><loonystart>Vol. 
                2, Issue 1<br>
                November 12, 1999<br>
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                <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">Down 
                  the Pipe</font></i></font></b></p>

                <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="6"> 
                  Introductory Ramblings</font></i></font></b></p>
                <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">by 
                  Russell &quot;<a href="mailto:radpipe@loonygames.com">RadPipe</a>&quot; 
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="../../images/letters_new/i.jpg" width="10" height="39" align="left"></font><font face="Arial">t 
                seems strange to sit across the river and view things from the 
                other side, yet here I sit, Features Editor for loonygames, my 
                favorite magazine on the planet. It wasn't long ago that I was 
                merely a fan sending loonyboi the &quot;loonygames is on hiatus? 
                Noooo!&quot; e-mail and not longer after that he sent</font> <font face="Arial">me 
                the &quot;my first 10 picks declined, you want a job?&quot; e-mail. 
                I couldn't be happier.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial">As Features Editor it is my job 
                to pull a Cover Story out of my ass every week and thrill the 
                masses with some literary wonderment and chat with the industry 
                Gods. No small feat indeed! How will I do it? No clue. Check back 
                with me in a couple months.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial">This week's <a href="../feat/index.html">interview 
                with American McGee</a> was a delight to do, and I'm not just 
                saying that. Alice is such a cool concept for a game and I love 
                the <i>Nightmare Before Christmas</i> influence in the concept 
                art. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. In fact, I think 
                I can sing every song on the soundtrack by heart. But also, the 
                game is being co-produced by one of my favorite game companies, 
                Rogue Entertainment. I can't say enough about Jim Molinets, Barrett 
                Alexander and their crew. Plus <a href="../index.html">the Under 
                Cover story</a> about Christopher Greenhaw (who did that awesome 
                cover pic), is just too amazing to forget. That boy is going places, 
                you watch. Look for more on the Rogue crew to grace the pages 
                of loonygames in the next couple of weeks.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial">On to bigger and bolder, and 
                I'm not talking silicon. I won't spoil all the great upcoming 
                features we have planned for loonygames, but I will say we're 
                going to CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE IN THIS UNIVERSE THINK, BABY! Well, 
                ok, Kodos and his sister Kang are pretty much set in their ways, 
                and if anyone can get Paul Steed to consider anything new then 
                let me know, but everyone else better hold on to your hats and 
                your pants! (Hats will blow off on windy days, and loonyboi will 
                steal your pants if you let him).</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial">If you dropped by for our IRC 
                Launch Party the other day, then you witnessed chaotic mayhem 
                at its finest. At one point I counted 150 people in the #loonygames 
                channel, no less than 3 servers were buckling under the load, 
                and our chief loonyboi couldn't get on to give his speech and 
                get</font> <font face="Arial">things going. And, to top things 
                off, I found I am absolutely terrible at stalling. It was cool. 
                We had a lot of VIPs attend, which I was delighted to see, in 
                fact I think I'll list them here:</font></p>
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                <blockquote><font face="Arial">Dave Kirsch, Paul Steed, and John 
                  Cash of id Software</font> <br>
                  <font face="Arial">John Romero, Stevie Case, and Chris Cummings 
                  of Ion Storm</font> <br>
                  <font face="Arial">Chris Greenhaw, Rob Selitto, and Bobby Pavlock 
                  of Rogue Entertainment</font> <br>
                  <font face="Arial">Jake Simpson, and John Scott of Raven Software</font> 
                  <br>
                  <font face="Arial">Jim Downs of All Games Network</font> <br>
                  <font face="Arial">Jenne &quot;Mynx&quot; Bailey of Dear Mynx</font> 
                  <br>
                  <font face="Arial">Cliff Bleszinski and Brandon Reinhart of 
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                  <font face="Arial">Illiad of User Friendly</font></blockquote><br>
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              There were others (like two excellent dudes from Looking Glass) 
              but I was too drunk to write their names down. Sorry. I suggested 
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              to run me up the flag pole so I dropped it.</font></div>
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