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 links to the best vid-gaming sites' content http://www.otakuboy.com -- Mar. 10, 1999 Vol. 1 No. 68 Lovely Rita -- written by OtakuBoy - "METER MAID!" 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 ========================================= ----------- P l a y S t a t i o n (PSX & PSY) -- PSY? 'Y' not? - News According to a report on GameFAN, the code name for the PSX2 is PSY. Hmm... it's not going to be easy typing that. I'm so used to typing PSX2. PSX2. PSY PSY PSY. It sounds like a code for a college course more than the code name of a hot new game system. PSY 1001 - Psychology - "Explores the professor's nether regions." Also in this story are the current companies working for PSY and games in-development! -- http://www.gamefan.com/newhotinfo/hotinfo.asp?storyid=687 -- Dex Drive save Day - News Worried that the roster in NBA LIVE '99 is getting a bit musty? PEW! Well, WORRY No MORE, MY FINE-FEATHERED FRIEND!!! EA has posted a DD file on their site that'll update the roster for ya. This is cool, too. Think of all the ways developers could start usin' the Dex Drive! -- http://www.digital-ages.com/dao/news/next/w44_23.htm -- DRAGON QUEST VII MOVIES!!!!!! - Movie Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh PSXMax. How they love me. How they LOVE YOU! They put up... get this... four WHOPPING DRAGON QUEST VII Movies. What could be more exciting than that? Click, dammit! CLICK! -- ftp://joya.doit.wisc.edu/dq7/dq7-1.mpg -- ftp://joya.doit.wisc.edu/dq7/dq7-2.mpg -- ftp://joya.doit.wisc.edu/dq7/dq7-3.mpg -- ftp://joya.doit.wisc.edu/dq7/dq7-4.mpg -- MAYHEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - News 60 WCW wrestlers?! WOW! That's amazing, sister babe! That's just over the top. And yet that's what you're gonna get to play in EA's upcoming WCW MAYHEM. Check out the details at Digital-Ages. -- http://www.digital-ages.com/dao/news/next/w44_22.htm -- HA HA! You can't emulate on Windows... - News ... for 20 days that is. Sony finally got a little edge over the other d00dz in their battler to stop the VIRTUAL GAME STATION emulator. This time, it'll be 20 days before the Windows version can come out. Big deal! -- http://www.consoledomain.com/news/index.html#604 -- DINO CRISIS MOVIESSSSSSSSSS! - Movie Yeah, BOY!!!!!!!!!!! DINO CRISIS really kiCKS ToCK! And what kicks tock even more is how one of the guys in the video didn't want this footage recorded! Maybe this should be called GAME DEVELOPER CRISIS? DARN IT! It's only 10 seconds! Not cool. -- http://www.consoledomain.com/news/index.html#609 -- Ape Escape - Preview I still say The Great Grape Ape was the most underrated cartoon character in history!! So, I'm just going to pretend that the Ape in APE ESCAPE is the Great Grape Ape. Now, lookie here on Game Online. Here's a great preview of the next Crash/Spyro-esque game. -- http://www.game-online.com/cfdocs/site/news/newstemp.cfm?newsid=1458 -- Legend of Lagaia - Preview Sony started mailin' out demo discs of LEGEND OF LAGAIA this week. And WHY NOT?! It's a cool RPG. So says me. So says PSXMax. So go check this out. I especially like how they've critiqued the overall translation. It gives me gooseybumps. -- http://www.consolecity.com/psx/games/pre_lege.html -- Shao Lin - Preview Hey, I really appreciate GameFAN going over SHAO LIN. What a neat game, eh? But.. what's this? This review talks about "brawlin'" and compares the game to THRILL KILL? Hmmm... either GameFAN don't know what a SHAO LIN is, or the game developers don't. -- http://www.gamefan.com/gmx/standardPRE.asp?game=934 -- K-1: Revenge - Review Around the world (except for the United States), K-1 is like super popular. Oh? You don't know what K-1 is. Well, then I suggest you go away. No! Seriously, K-1 combines like all kinds of fighting styles into several rounds of cool, kick ass (pun) fun. ANd K-1: REVENGE is like a game about that! So, go read this GameCenter review!! -- http://www.gamecenter.com/Consoles/Sony/K1revenge/ -- WOW! Busted Fiberglass - Review Get it? You see, DEAD IN THE WATER, is like TWISTED METAL. Yeah, yeah. Very nice. Except, this time, you're in a BOAT! A big, hulking boat -- ON water even! And so the play on words -- TWISTED METAL... BUSTED FIBERGLASS. You see? It's really very simple. And very funny if I do say so myself, and I do say so myself. I just did. GameFAN's review praises DitW as they call it. -- http://www.gamefan.com/gmx/standardRE.asp?game=702 -- Pro Pinball Big Race USA - Review It even has the cliched reference to The Who's PINBALL WIZARD! No, seriously, PRO PINBALL BIG RACE USA sounds like a really good implementation of pinball on a console -- FINALLY! Anyone remember those weird TG-16 pinball games? I remember one: When you hit the ball to the top of the table, the bottom half flashed off the screen, the top half taking its place. This wasn't so bad, of course, except when you had a ball bouncing between the halfway point on the table and your screen would flash and flicker between the the two halves of the table over and over again. Hehehe.. that was a game, let me tell you. So, anyway Console Domain reviews. -- http://www.consoledomain.com/psx/reviews/Pro_Pinball_Big_Race_USA.html -- Final Fantasy VIII - Review Yeah, we've seen these before, but it's so cool when a site waits awhile before posting their review. Why? Because they get to stand out from everyone else! SO, if you haven't seen a FF8 review yet, it's time to read your little butt off. -- http://www.consolecity.com/psx/games/rev_ff8.html -- Have Flightstick? Get GameStick - Review Well, you don't have to have to Flightstick. The FlightStick is a PC controller that's like cool for flight games and stuff. (Hence, the name. Clever marketing!) Well, GameCenter reviews the console cousin, the GAMESTICK! (BAD MARKETING! BAD BAD! NAME NOT GOOD! BAD!) -- http://www.gamecenter.com/Consoles/Hardware/Sony/Chgamestick/ D r e a m c a s t & S a t u r n (DC & SAT) -- The ULTIMATE SoNiC AdVeNtUrE FAQ - Feature WOW! VIVA LA DREAMCAST INSIDER for writing this cool, cool thing. It's a full-on FAQ for everything SONIC ADVENTURE. From how to movie Sonic through certain levels, to why Tails pulls off his trousers and moons the gamer on level 17. -- http://www.consolecity.com/dc/cheats/sonic_a_faq.html -- Saturn owners! Sega still BELIEVES! - News Well, well, well. We've been hearing quite a bit about a so-called Saturn emulator out there, eh? Well, Sega's done gone an officially confirmed the SATCAST. It'll even enhance stuff, too. Full details on Console Domain. -- http://www.consoledomain.com/news/index.html#593 -- Soul Calibur - News/Preview It's more newsy than preview, but WHO CARES?!??!?! This Dreamycast game will be the sequel to SOUL BLADE. And if you don't know what that is, then go down to your arcade RIGHT NOW, MISTER!!!!!!!!!!! -- http://www.consoledomain.com/dreamcast/previews/Soul_Calibur.html -- House of The Dead 2 - Pics OOooooooooooOoooOOOOoooh, HOUSE OF THE DEAD TWOOOOooOOoo, you are so beautiful! You're pictures they capture the eerie essence of life and you're bound to make the Dreamcast the best selling console system this side of the Rocky Mountains ... or something. -- http://www.gamefan.com/newhotinfo/hotinfo.asp?storyid=680 N i n t e n d o 6 4 (N64) -- MAYHEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - News 60 WCW wrestlers?! WOW! That's amazing, sister babe! That's just over the top. And yet that's what you're gonna get to play in EA's upcoming WCW MAYHEM. Check out the details at Digital-Ages. -- http://www.digital-ages.com/dao/news/next/w44_22.htm -- Lego Racers - Preview Watch out for the first paragraph, which totally flew over my head. (Although I get the jist.) Otherwise, this is a really cool preview of this upcoming racer. And Legos ARE COOOL! -- http://www.64source.com/previews/legorace.html -- Armorines - Preview Okay. Think Starship Troopers (the best movie EVERRRRRR!) and Turok (a pretty good game... ever) and you've got ARMORINES. Go forward in your mech-armored-bad self and shoot lotsa stuff. Game-Online has a full-on preview. -- http://www.game-online.com/cfdocs/site/news/newstemp.cfm?newsid=1457 -- Jus' give yo' best ATTITUDE! - Preview Heck, WHOLE SITES have been devoted to this title. Every- one can't wait til it comes out! YES, EVERYONE! Even folks who don't particularly like wrestling want this game. How do I know? Because, darn it, I'm a journalist! And I speak with authoritatisism. All journalists know better than you. Don't you know that?! ;) And I, Otakuboy, Journalist Extra- Ordinary, claim this GameFan preview of WWF ATTITUDE, "nifty." -- http://www.gamefan.com/newhotinfo/hotinfo.asp?storyid=668 G a m e B o y C o l o r (GBC) -- OH! It depends on how ya feel! - Preview "Fine" platform game... that's what Console Domain calls the upcoming DUKE NUKEM for GameBoy Color! Do you agree? NO WAY!!!! Not me! I want full-on, first-person, big-time, shoot-em-now-screw-the-questions action. Yeah, yeah, DUKEY first started life as an EGA/VGA 2D platformer, but I like the DUKE o' TODAY! DAMMMMIT! -- http://www.consoledomain.com/gameboy/previews/Duke_Nukem_Mini_Preview.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? 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WHAT COULD BE MORE FUN?! -- http://www.gamefan.com/NewHotInfo/hotinfo.asp?storyid=659 A n i m e N e w s ==========Sponsored by http://anime-genesis.com============= News from Tokyopop.com + Tokimeki Memorial 3 for Playstation and Saturn comes out on April 1st. + Chocobo's Racing is due on March 18th. + Macross Do You Remember Love for Playstation is due in April. + Sentimental Graffitti 2 for Dreamcast comes out this summer. + Shenmue for Dreamcast is scheduled for an April release. + Neon Genesis Evangelion for N64 will be out in the Spring. + Macross VF-X2 and Patlabor, both for PSX, are scheduled for summer releases. ============================================================ 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. Zine Scene - O t a k u B o y O n l i n e - Zine Scene -- Mar. 10, 1999 Vol. 1 No. 68 Lovely Rita -- written by OtakuBoy - "METER MAID!" http://www.otakuboy.com Now on superriffic, magical ICQ! # 21176515 AND THE WEB!! http://www.otakuboy.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey, do you like OtakuBoy? Please forward it to a friend and tell 'em to send a "hey, subscribe me" to Otakuboy@bigfoot.com