Share the love! Forward OtakuBoy Online to a friend. You'll be glad you did. :D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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 http://www.otakuboy.com -- Feb. 14, 1999 Vol. 1 No. 59 OOOooooooooooooooh -- written by OtakuBoy - "It ain't mah fault!" Now on superriffic, magical ICQ! # 21176515 AND THE WEB!! http://www.otakuboy.com Resouces obtained through Gaming Central! http://www.startpath.com/gamingcentral/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OtakuBoy loves you. OtakuBoy cares. That's why OtakuBoy unleashes his virtual scrubbing bubbles onto all the online console video game sites -- 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 go get them. OtakuBoy loves you. Now, love OtakuBoy back. =OtakuBoy Speaketh ========================================= I'm so excited. My knees explode and my socks fall off. (Thanks to Robin Williams.) Serious, lots of Next-Next-Next Generation console news today. Well, it's more like rumors. Blah. Also, super amounts of MULTI-FORMAT NEWS!!! Like the History of RPG's? Ooh la la! ----------- D r e a m c a s t & S a t u r n (DC & SAT) -- YEAH! Undercover MOVIE - Movie! Leave it to SegaX to bring something COOL, d00dz. Here's the intro movie to UNDERCOVER. And, no, I don't have to embellish this link with silly humor. Just click, man. CLICK! -- http://www.segadreamcast.net/news/news_990212_undermovie.htm -- ANOTHER Sonic Adventure VMS Game - News Famitsu Weekly and S.A. teamed up in a sense to put out a brand-spanking new SONIC ADVENTURE VMS game. This time, you gotta look for a REAL hedgehog. I can't BELIEVE IT?! Real hedgehogs don't look like SONIC! :( -- http://www.gaming-age.com/news2/february99/021299e.htm -- Virtua-Striker 2 CONFIRMED - News Gosh! A VERY short story that VIRTUA-STRIKER 2 has been confirmed for Dreamcast. That's it. End of story. Oh, this is a soccer game, in case you don't know. -- http://www.sega-otaku.com/news/0299/21299b.html ===========OTAKUBOY SAY TO VISIT THIS DUDE, EH!============= Want to have a second opinion on anime/manga? Don't know where to surf for good images and fan contri- bution? Want to decorate your desktop with over 200 anime wallpapers? Sick of listening to the same music all the time? Browse over to Anime Genesis dot com at http://anime-genesis.com Your online anime/manga companion. ============================================================ P l a y S t a t i o n (PSX) -- Does UbiSoft have a PSX2 up their sleeve? - News/Rumor? Well, well, well. Looks like UbiSoft loosened their lips a bit and said that the next RAYMAN will hit Dreamcast AND PSX2. How is this possible? Next-Generation investigates. -- http://www.next-generation.com/jsmid/news/5817.html -- A bit on a PSX invitation-only meeting - News Next-Generation has a report about an invitation-only meeting where Sony promises to show some nifty stuff. This is the best story I've seen about it, which is all over the Web. Has a bit o' analysis and all kinds of stuff. Plus, they called a bunch a-developers to ask them about it and they've changed their answer to the question about having a PSX2 kit. Ooopsies. -- http://www.next-generation.com/jsmid/news/5824.html -- A more reliable way to defeat Mod-Chip lockout? - News BOY! You REALLY gotta wanna play FF8 for this $78 dollar solution. Digital-Ages reports on a NEW way to beat that Square/FF8 mod-chip breaker. Meanwhile, Gaming-Age hears a report that the Phantom Mod Chip will work, while the Shark codes a lot of sites have been reporting work... but not for long. You see, FF8 does a LOT of checks and at some point the codes fail. Wow. They reallllly didn't want this title imported and/or pirated! -- http://www.digital-ages.com/dao/news/next/w42_14.htm -- http://www.gaming-age.com/news2/february99/021299i.htm -- Tales of Destiny - RPG Review Riddle me this... (Or answer me this. I've always wanted to say "riddle me this.") Let's say you buy an RPG today that's a sequel to a fairly popular RPG from a previous generation o' consoles. This NEW RPG, which runs on some pretty sophisticated hardware, looks an awful lot like it was drawn for that older console. Does this bother you? Or is the RPG's STORY the thing? Well, IGNPSX reviews TALES OF DESTINY, the sequel to Tales of Phantasia on the SNES and while they say the game is cool, the graphics are very SNES. Does this bother you? It bothers our "guest editor." -- http://psx.ign.com/reviews/2215.html -- NCAA March Madness '99 - Review Even in Console Domain's review of NCAA Final Four, NCAA MARCH MADNESS '99 was mentioned as a much better game. And it does seem pretty cool. Why? I don't know. ;) Actually it seems put together better. Go see GameCenter's XXXX review. (That's Four X's, not QUAD-X porn, you sickie.) -- http://www.gamecenter.com/Consoles/Sony/Ncaamad99/ N i n t e n d o 6 4 (N64) -- Nintendo's next machine in 2001? - News Lotsa sites reportin' that Peter Main, who did a speech at the annual toy fair.. yeah, you remember the IGN64 link I carried below.. says that the next Nintendo would appear around 2001. Read this short bit about it and Nintendo Underground. But you know, fellers, I gotta tell ya that I didn't read this the same way. I think he was speaking generally, not specifically. But, hey, that's my take. -- http://www.nintendorks.com/ -- "Armageddon in Less Then Two Years" -- Duke Nukem: Zero Hour - Preview-Movie Ok Ok Ok. The MAIN reason to go here is the super cool, new Dukey Nukey movies. Lots of 'em, too. One, "Naughty, naughty Duke," is "uncensored." Oooh weee, ooh. (Durn it. I'm still chuggin' along at 28.8. I can't download the thing fast enough. Oh, I got it. Umm.. it's uncensored, but not shocking.) Anyway, the MAIN reason to go is for the movies. But the preview on the same page is top-rate. -- http://ign64.ign.com/previews/1965.html -- Extreme G-2 better than the first! - Review WHAT?! Another frikkin' racer for the N64? Aren't there like five BAZILLION of them? Ah, but hold on there says Edge of Digital-Ages... -- http://www.digital-ages.com/dao/reviews/n64/g2.htm -- Old Zelda Commercial - Audio Dyin' to hear an OLD Zelda commercial? Heh. Check out the predecessor to the PokeRap. From SHANE of Shane's Zelda Page. -- http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/8039//zeldanes.wav G a m e B o y C o l o r (GBC) -- Star Wars Games REVEALED! - News Ok, ok! So it's the same story as up above. But, you GOTTA understand! Way at the bottom, a GBC game is re- vealed: YODA'S STORIES. -- http://www.gaming-age.com/news2/february99/021299g.htm -- Twouble - Review You are Sylvester. Chase Tweety around and eventually, you'll turn isometric. This is wacky. This is wild. That's why this is TWOUBLE. -- http://www.consoledomain.com/gameboy/reviews/Twouble.html -- Wow! The Rugrats Movie - Preview/Shots As Game Informer calls it, this is a "wild, platforming ride." Ho hum! Another platform game. :( (HAS OTAKUBOY BECOME JADED! WHAP WHAP!) Oh, sorry, I mean it's COOLCOOL! They have FOUR SHOTS, too! -- http://www.gameinformer.com/news/feb99/021299d.html M u l t i - F o r m a t & M i s c -- The History of RPGs - Feature WOWOWOWOWOWOW! This is the kind of thing I wish I could write. It's a super detailed piece, chronicling every single RPG to hit every console ever born. Wow! Jeez! Download this and save it to your hard disk! -- http://www.videogames.com/features/universal/rpg_hs/ -- Ninja Gaiden - Poll/Revisted-News Now THIS is a way to do a news story. A few days ago, all the Web world was a-titter over Tecmo's poll about a new NINJA GAIDEN. I carried the link figuring a lot of you would remember. And maybe you HAVE! But jeez, I don't remember that anyone really told us what the series had been about. (It's an OLD NES game series.) Well, Videogames.com does this in their newsbit about Tecmo's poll. And just in case you don't remember that earlier news, Tecmo is running a poll on their Web site: Would you buy another NINJA GAIDEN? -- http://headline.gamespot.com/news/99_02/12_vg_ninja/index.html -- Oops! Retired Ball Players not happy. - News Whoopsies. Turns out it's NOT flattery when you take the likeness, name, legal-etcs of an old ball player and put it in a game. A few retired baseball players have filed suit against several developers. YOINKSEEE! Check out Next-Generation for the details. -- http://www.next-generation.com/jsmid/news/5816.html -- Diddy Kong wrapped in plastic! - Toy News Game Informer has the news of DIDDY KONG figures from this year's Toy Fair, which just ended. WOW! I know you're gonna want these right. In fact, I think I may get some myself!! Oh, and here's an earlier story about MARIO KART 64 toys. -- http://www.gameinformer.com/news/feb99/021299e.html -- http://www.gameinformer.com/news/oct98/101598h.html -- Battle Gear - Arcade YOWWWW! Here comes the third version of SIDE-BY-SIDE! Yeah, you remember, don't you. The late nights. The $50.00 a day in quarters pumping into the Taito racer. Well here comes BATTLE GEAR. Start saving. -- http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/5534/gaming.htm -- "Taito has announced a new..." S i t e A n n o u n c e m e n t -- Shane's Zelda Page This is for a reader. All of OtakuBoy's readers are personal friends, y'know. So, contact me. Anyway, Shane wants you to visit his Zelda page. He's got a pretty good thing, goin' here, me thinks. Lots of news and all kinds of stuff. Also, he wants you to vote for his site in the Top 50 ranking. Just do it. -- http://come.to/link097/ AND REMEMBER, folksies. There's MORE on www.otakuboy.com!! Cheers, OtakuBOY ----------------------------------------------------------- And, hey, when you wanna go out and surf on your own, stop on by Gaming Central. They're linked to every gaming site in the world! They kick TOCK! (As in But-TOCK!) -- http://www.startpath.com/gamingcentral/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Thus ends another ish of OtakuBoy Online. 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