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. 16, 1999 Vol. 1 No. 59 Happy Mardi GRAS! -- written by OtakuBoy - "Show your... umm.. games!" 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 ========================================= ----------- D r e a m c a s t & S a t u r n (DC & SAT) -- WOW! Dreamcast $200?! - News Sega-Otaku spied an Investor's Business Daily article stating a super-cool U.S. price for Dreamcast. Do I need to give you a hint? Check out the details! (I am super excited. I might be able to afford this!) --http://www.sega-otaku.com/news/0299/21599a.html -- Finally, A D2 Movie! - Movie I found this cool news at SegaX. According to them, we have seen anything of D2 for many months. But the cool dudez, spied this super 12-meg video! Check it out! -- http://www.tcp-ip.or.jp/~minaduki/game99/dc/99-02/movie13/d2.mpg -- Marvel vs. Capcom - Preview Hmmm... fists-a-flyin', webs-a-slingin. Is this MARVEL VS. CAPCOM really going to be ALL THAT?! Phat phat and all that? Well, according to Dreamcast.net and their preview.. uh... yeah! They run down mostly the characters and some of the structure of the game. -- http://www.dreamcast.net/firstlooks/marvelvscapcom.html -- Seaman - Preview Oh this is so WEIRD! You put on the upcoming headphone/ microphone Dreamcast thingy and talk to and help this half- man/half-fish thing on-screen make friends? WHAT?!?! http://www.sega-otaku.com/previews/software/seaman/seaman.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) -- The PlayStation 2 Revealed?! - News Well, well, well. The PlayStation 2 -- at least the main, mother-truckin' processing beasty inside -- may have been revealed at a conference today! It's a meeting every- one been talkin' about for month where Sony would introduce a new processor. IGNPSX has the specs of the new chip. Oh, IGN's pretty much decided that this chip is for the PSX2, but, they say, Sony has not confirmed this. Yeah, right! IT'S THE PSX2! I KNOW IT! I JUST KNOW IT! YESYESYESYESYESYES YESYESYESYES! -- http://psx.ign.com/news/6932.html -- WOW! FF8 Translation - Feature WHATEVER YOU DO, DEAR GOD! GO READ THIS!!! Ok, the guy says he's a Japanese student and he makes no promises that things are 100% accurate, but he's tries! He tries to make a full-on translation of the Japanese version of FF8!!!!! Go read! -- http://oro.simplenet.com/ff8/ -- Jail Breaker - Preview Would you like to play the role of Clint Eastwood and escape from Alcatraz? Yeah, me, too. I could say all those cool things that only Clint could say. Of course, comin' from me it would sound silly and someone might spit in my face, but I digress. Anyway, TokyoPop takes a look at JAIL BREAKER, a new Japanese game from NEC Interchannel, where you play the prisoner and you gotta escape! -- http://www.tokyopop.com/tokyopop/content/vidgames/previews/1298/jailb/index.asp -- Silent Hill - Preview This is the so-called "Resident Evil Killer." Cool Guy of PlayStationFan updates a demo review he did a few weeks ago. Why? Cause he's been playing the FULL ON FINAL VERSION! Anyway, this link is more a demo review as he hasn't finished the game as yet. But he says it's a might scary! As scary as Resident Evil? -- http://www.playstationfan.com/news330.htm -- Syphon Filter - Review 9.0, eh? Part Metal Gear Solid, part Tomb Raider, eh? Wow. Well, it sounds pretty cool. This is a pretty long re- view; it spans three pages. Anything special. No. It's a good, balanced review. In fact, it's a bit SPOILER-ish. So, watch out. I have nothing more to say. SYPHON FILTER. Catch the sky. Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-far better. -- http://www.videogames.com/psx/adventure/syphon/review.html N i n t e n d o 6 4 (N64) -- Harvest Moon 64 - Preview Now this looks more my RPG-style. I go out to a farm, right? And i raise, like, corn and stuff. Yeah, man. Yeah! Wotta game. No, this RPG here, HARVEST MOON 64 , sounds really interesting, cool, and Japanese. (HEY HEY HEY! Whaddaya mean by that OTAKUBOY?!) Well, I mean that it's kind of a lifestyle-RPG. Less about slaying monsters and more about roleplaying a life. That's all. (That's what I thought you meant. If you step outta line I'll murdalize ya!) -- http://ign64.ign.com/previews/1910.html -- Ogre Battle 3 - Preview JeeZ! Is this a PREVIEW? No way! It's so detailed. Console Domain goes through, what seems like, every single nook and cranny of OGRE BATTLE 3, and the game ain't even out yet! What fun! -- http://www.consoledomain.com/n64/previews/Ogre_Battle_3.html -- Hybrid Heaven - Preview YOW! Konami hits the N64 with another game. Jeez! They just released Castlevania 64 and they ain't resting! No no no! It's HYBRID HEAVEN, a kind of RPG with a turn-based bat- tle system. Seems cool. Nintendo Underground has a preview. Short, but sweet. It even contains the obligatory argument for buying EVERY N64 RPG game you can find. (Cause there are so few of 'em.) -- http://www.nintendorks.com/previews/carl/hybrid_heaven/ G a m e B o y C o l o r (GBC) - Rampage World Tour - Review Oh, indeed. Ape get mad. Ape climb building. Ape destroy building. Ape fall off building. Hmmm... haven't we been here before? Well, not so much on GameBoy COLOR! Which is what Gaming-Age is talkin' about in their review of RAMPAGE WORLD TOUR. -- http://www.gaming-age.com/ga2/reviews/gameboy/rampagewt.shtml M u l t i - F o r m a t & M i s c -- More credibility to the SNK vs. Capcom story? - News Remember last week we heard that maybe perhaps there could be an SNK vs. Capcom game? Well, FGNONline asked Capcom and SNK and they both denied it. But Dimension-S says, referencing a GameFan report (see how incestuous this all is), that SNK DID approach Capcom with the idea of making such a game for the Neo Geo Pocket and that an arcade version would be a good first step. Whew. Read the details on Dimension-S. -- http://www.dimension-s.com/sega-news/article.cfm?news_id=1367 -- SNK announces King of Fighters R-2 - News YOOOOW! KING O' FIGHTERS R-2 is comin' out for Neo Geo Pocket. And boy, oh boy, KOF fans are a might a-titter. I can feel 'em shaking. They better see a doctor about that. -- http://www.segadreamcast.net/news/news_990215_kofdc.htm -- More SNK stuff - News Gaming-Age runs a really cool wrap up of all the Neo Geo Pocket news to date. Most of it is the stuff I've reported above, but there are a few tidbits here not available else- where... like the SONIC game for NGP? WOW! How about a COLUMNS game? Ok, that's pretty boring. More at Gaming-Age. -- http://www.gaming-age.com/news2/february99/021599d.htm -- Heh. Bubble Bobble - NES Review I played this game on my Amiga 500. I never owned it for the NES. But the reviewer at the TheGIA did. And that's what they review for you. Pretty fun retrospective actually. -- http://www.gaming-intelligence.com/nes/bubble/bubble.html 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. The place for the squeeky clean zine scene... and those zines better get to writin' better features. 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