OTAKUBOY ONLINE! Impossible does the Implausible! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Zine Scene - O t a k u B o y O n l i n e - Zine Scene The best news from the best vid-gaming sites -- Oct. 7, 1998 Vol. 1 No. 4 Love me tender, love me -- written by OtakuBoy - Try new, great tasting Console-O's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey, let OtakuBoy spew in your e-mail box! Send a "hey, subscribe me" to Otakuboy@bigfoot.com OtakuBoy loves you. OtakuBoy cares. That's why OtakuBoy unleashes his virtual scrubbing bubbles onto all the online console video game zines -- even on sites you've never heard of before -- to scour out the best features, reviews, previews, and news. Then OtakuBoy tells you where to get them all. OtakuBoy loves you. Now, love OtakuBoy back. =OtakuBoy Speaketh ========================================= I swear! If you connect to OtakuBoy #3 to #4 , they balance each other and float in the air. This is because this issue puts all the Dreamcast info way down below to move other news and stuff up toward the top. Let's give the other consoles some air today, mm-kay? ----------- Lotsa sites had cars on the brain today. Why? I have no clue. Peter Oliver reviews "R4 Ridge Racer" (PSX) at Consoledomain.com. (It's worth a read for the special feature in the game that ole Peter talks about.) More car stuff at Videogames.com as Jeff Gerstmann reviews Crusin' World (N64). (I just have to know. First, Crusin' USA. Then, Crusin' World. What's next? Crusin' Hell? Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego Crusin'? Crusin' Body Cavity Search? How long can this go on? (this paragraph and the Crusin'series)) Douglass Perry and IGN win best review of the day. Douglass wrote a detailed Twisted Metal 3 review where he proclaims it may be better than Vigilante 8! Oy veh! There are also a whole bunch of links to screen shots and movies. COOL! On to some other interesting stuff, mostly from FGN Online, who had bang-up killer update this morning. First, they report new details about Castlevania 64, a title near to OtakuBoy's heart. Secondly, also from FGN, Activision steps up to produce a new X-Men fighting title. Details @ FGN. Check out Console City's PSXMax news for info about a new version of PSX designed to foil chip modders, and for info about a new line of Lara Croft action figures, inclu- ding one with Lara in crotch-less panties. (Did I say that? I meant a wet suit. You see, that's why you have to read it from the source (Console City) to get the full story.) Consoledomain.com reviews TimeShock, super pinball game for PSX. Reviewer "Andrew L" is really impressed but one thing befuddles the poor guy. Check it out. A couple sites report that Mission Impossible, that silly N64 game, beat the 1,000,000 sales mark. WHAT?!?! Digital-Ages has a good "why theory." And James Fudge reports from Games.net news about "voodoo-themed action game" Akuji the Heartless. There's a new Gameboy emu out. This news comes from... Where else? Daves Classics. (He's capitalizing.) I don't know if I really care about another GameBoy emu, but this name -- BoyCott -- is just funny. Oh, if you're a-lookin' for emu news, it's worth a surf to Insert Coin, especially when you want news about Retrocade! Oh, don't know what it is? Just a totally cool emu with full (coming) support for sound, and extreme attention to one thing emus don't pay much attention to -- original running speed. (Retro's an arcade emu.) Insert Coin has good coverage of Retrocade. Ok, ok. Here's your Dreamcast. Not much big news today. (As OtakuBoy Online and Vid-game site readers know, yesterday Sega ran a big conference where they confirmed a lot of stuff. E-mail Otakuboy@bigfoot.com for the stuff, if you missed it.) There was, however a lot of fleshing out and re-analysis. Dreamcast.IGN updated their site big- time. What they say? Well, first, NAMCO has signed up to be a DC player. (You see, Dreamcast.IGN quivers at the thought of a DC Tekken 4.) Dreamcast.IGN also fleshes out a story reported yesterday on numerous sites about Biohazard: Code Veronica (Biohazard) for DC. But Dreamcast.IGN pisses me off with the same story. On IGN's cover they say, "we've seen it," and then, inside, cop out with "words can't describe how beautiful it is." Baloney. Can you see baloney? I can describe it! FGN reports that Crystal Dynamics has decided against DC for some of its titles, unless... well, just check it out. FGN also reports, with a little help from DreamCaster.net (check there for the more detailed info) that Web TV (SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!) will become a player in DreamCast's online ventures. Oh, will wonders never cease? Sega Otaku shows an interesting picture of the Japanese DC final packaging, including a couple of peripheral. (It seems like there's more in the shot, but it's under a glass or plastic case and the overhead lights blind.) And if you just haven't had enough Dreamcast, check out Dreamcaster.net the laser pen Sega handed out at ECTS. Sure to be a collector's item. And much more durable if you want to do anything similiar to what Monica Lewinsky did. Oh my. (oh and bitchx says dreamcast sux, yeah whatever) ============================================================ Links: -- R4 Ridge Racer Review -- http://www.consoledomain.com/psx/previews/R4_Ridge_Racer_Type_4.html -- Crusin' for a Bruisin' -- http://www.videogames.com/n64/drvfly/cruisnworld/review.html -- Twisted Metal 3. -- http://psx.ign.com/previews/10296.html -- Castlevania 64 Updated! -- X Men FIGHT AGAIN! -- http://www.fgnonline.com -- Lara Toys with ya and new PSX 9000 series -- http://www.consolecity.com/psx/ -- PSX TimeShock! Ow OW! -- http://www.consoledomain.com/psx/reviews/Timeshock.html -- Mission Impossible does the Implausible -- http://www.digital-ages.com/dao/news/next/w26_4.htm -- Akuji the Heartless -- http://www.games.net/news_center/articles/0,1212,4901,00.html -- BoyCott THIS! -- http://www.davesclassics.com -- Insert Coin and Retrocade -- http://www.monroeworld.com/insertcoin/ -- NAMCO and Dreamcaster. Whoda thunk it? -- Is there a Tekken 4 in the HOUSE?! -- http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/5136.html -- Oh, Biohazard: Code Veronica, you're so much more fleshed out than before. Mmmmmm.. -- http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/5137.html -- Web TV & Dreamcaster. Two tastes that taste great together. -- Crystal Dynamics thinks again about DC -- http://www.dreamcaster.net/news/100698-04.htm -- Japanese DC Packaging -- under glass -- http://209.207.140.103/news/oct98/100798b.html -- Dreamcast Laser Pen. Burn a hole in your N64 enemies. -- http://www.dreamcaster.net/news/100698-08.htm -- I'm KING of the WORLD! And I say BOOGER TO DREAMCAST! -- http://www.gaminginsider.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Thus ends another ish of OtakuBoy Online. The place for the squeeky clean zine scene... and those zines better get to writin' better features. Zine Scene - O t a k u B o y O n l i n e - Zine Scene -- Oct. 7, 1998 Vol. 1 No. 4 Love me tender, love me -- written by OtakuBoy - Try new, great tasting Console-O's Please, let the love into your e-mail box! Send a "hey, subscribe me" to Otakuboy@bigfoot.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!